Rochester Meditation Center special program September 7

Hi Everybody, I'm delighted to announce that this Thursday evening, Ajahn Punnadhammo will offer a dharma talk at the RMC on "The Nature of Mind."  "The mind is the most immediate and intimate part of our experience," Ajahn writes. "In a sense the mind the totality of our experience, because all that we experience is in our mind. And yet the mind is mysterious to us. What is the mind?" In his talk, Ajahn will describe the Buddha's basic psychology of mind which is based neither on an embodied soul, nor on consciousness arising from matter. Instead, the Buddha offers a revolutionary third possibility which shares striking similarities to an understanding of consciousness and reality via modern quantum physics. But most important, the Buddha's understanding of mind opens a place for each person to truly know their mind, and on that basis to act in a way that creates happiness over time. I hope you can join us for this special evening. With love, ;-Doug P.S. The Rochester Meditation Center is at 303 6th Avenue SW. The meditation hall opens at 6:30 PM for optional sitting. Ajahn's talk begins at 7 PM. He'll offer a guided meditation until 7:30 PM, and the talk and Q&A until 8:30 PM.    Ajanh Punnadhammo and The Rochester Meditation Center are both solely supported by your generosity.                                               May All Beings Be Free

AJAHN PUNNADHAMMO, a Canadian-born monk ordained in Thailand, is a well-known meditation teacher and writer and the Abbot of the Arrow River Forest Hermitage in Thunder Bay, Ontario. A selection of his topical and sometimes wryly humorous writings on meditation, Buddhist thinking and current events can be found here and here. His criticism of modern secular Buddhism, especially as espoused by the Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor, can be found here. Ajahn Punnadhammo is a frequent guest speaker and retreat leader at the Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis and at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass. Several dozen of his talks at the Insight Meditation Society are archived here.