A 6-week class with Kosho McCall
Tuesdays, 2/2 - 3/9, 6:45-8pm
$30/members; $60/others

We will be looking at our monastic origins when lay practice was very different from what it has become in the West. Subjects to be covered:

• The difference between monk and lay, between monk and priest, between priest and lay practice.
• How practice changed in Japan and is changing even more radically for women and men as it's growing on American shores.
• Outstanding lay practitioners, past and present.
• The true spirit of practice that we all can share.

A 6-week class with Anita Swann
Thursdays, 2/4 - 3/11, 6:45-8pm
$30/members; $60/others

It contains only 262 Chinese characters, and can be recited in less than three minutes, yet contains the core of Mahayana teachings. It is recited daily in Zen temples around the world as a foundational teaching. In this series of six meetings we will examine the Buddhist philosophy expressed so succinctly in this sutra.