Hello!
On Saturday, July 24 we will meet for the Downtown Dharma reading group to continue our discussion of the book Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators by Guy Armstrong.
Meeting Information:
We will be doing a combined in-person/Zoom meeting this time. We ask that participants only come in person if they have been fully vaccinated.
July 24, 6:00-7:30 pm
Address: Harris Rosensweig's place 1372 Randolph St. NW, #103
Washington, DC 20011
Optional group dinner afterwards—we went to dinner after our first in person meeting and thought we could do a repeat with a casual dinner somewhere afterwards.
Zoom Information will be sent in a future email.
Reading:
We'll be reading Chapters 7 through 13 this time (pages 83-171). If you don't get to read all of it, that's ok!
Below are some of the major topics we discussed during our first discussion.
- Emptiness- what is it?
- Self- What does "no self" (or not self) mean? What are common beliefs about the self that we hold? What does Armstrong claim is wrong about those beliefs?
- Sense bases and the five aggregates
- What is "self" really? How do we create a view of the self through thinking and attachment?
- What is the "conventional" versus "fundamental" view of the self?
Chapters 7 through 13 cover:
- Beyond Self
- Bearing Emptiness
- Karma: Patterns of Becoming
- Who is Reborn?
- The End of Karma
- Abiding in Emptiness
- Cessation and Nibbana
We plan on having an opening question to be sent out in a future email to get the discussion going and then have free form conversation after the opening responses.
If you can make it, kindly email me at hrosensweig@hotmail.com to RSVP.
Be well,
Harris
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