UUCF Buddhist Fellowship
The UUCF Buddhist Fellowship meets in the Chapel on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month. From 9:30am-9:55am, there is a meditation session. From 10:00-10:50am, there is an open discussion time, usually based on a book. You do not necessarily need to have read the book to attend the session. Meetings are open to all; no particular level of experience or knowledge is required. And you can come to either or both of the two parts of the meeting.
The book we are currently studying is Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana. This book is also available free online.
To be added to the Buddhist Fellowship distribution list, email .
Links of Interest
Websites
- How to Meditate by Tara Brach
- The Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship
- The Faith of a Unitarian Universalist Buddhist
- What is Unitarian Universalist Buddhism?
Magazines
- Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly: An in-depth, practice-oriented publication for Buddhists of all traditions
Podcasts
- Buddhist Geeks: Discover the Emerging Face(s) of Buddhism
- Secular Buddhist Association: A natural, pragmatic approach to early Buddhist teachings and practice
Sermons
- "Pragmatic Buddhism, Westernized Dharma, 21st-century Sangha" by The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg
How Buddhism Began
"Are you a god?" they asked. "No." "An angel?" "No." "A saint?" "No." "Then what are you?"
Buddha answered, "I am awake."
His answer became his title, for this is what Buddha means. The Sanskrit root budh denotes both to wake up and to know. Buddha, then, means the "Enlightened One" or the "Awakened One." While the rest of the world was wrapped in the womb of sleep, dreaming a dream known as the waking state of human life, one of their number roused himself. Buddhism begins with a man who shook off the daze, the doze, the dream-like vagaries of ordinary awareness. It begins with the man who woke up. --Huston Smith, "The Man Who Woke Up"