September 2018 Class
-Rev, Dr. T.K. Nakagaki on Buddhism, interfaith, Peace, War, and History
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Sharing from his own life experience as a monk from Japan in the Jodo Shinshu tradition, a branch Mahayana Buddhism.
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Sharing from his own life experience as a monk from Japan in the Jodo Shinshu tradition, a branch Mahayana Buddhism.
2017
Rev. Laura On Buddhism, Part 1
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For the first part of her talk, Laura Derr (rhymes with fur) talked about her very personal and extensive experience with the path and teachings of Vietnamese Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh, a path with which she was involved for nearly 30 years. She also elucidated how she later came to recognize her personal path more in A Course in Miracles, and how she now integrates both teachings into her life and work as a psychotherapist and a gifted intuitive healer. This first session with a brief walking meditation which you can participate in, in your own room, while watching the video.
Part 2 of Rev. Laura on Buddhism
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In the second part of her presentation, Laura expounded on many aspects of the actual tenets of Buddhism, and its basic teachings and history. (See attached handouts: Buddhism by the numbers and the 5 Mindfullness Trainings for this segment.) This is a very informative session and really contains a lot of information!
Rev. Laura on the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer and the Aramaic Beatitudes
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Speaking on a topic that is obviously near and dear to her heart, Laura brought a very different topic to the afternoon session–in fact, even a change of clothes! She not only taught about the meaning of the original Aramaic scriptures of early Christianity, but also sang them to us as well! She expounded on what may well be the deeper meaning of these prayers and scriptures by compiling together varying definitions used for Aramaic words in English (many of them have several meanings) and weaving them into single unified masterfully distilled translation of each. Hearing both the English and Aramaic, we can feel transported back to the time when these words were first shared so long ago. Please refer to the attached handouts when listening to this segment.