Real Life with Ryuei

Faithful Fools Meetings have resumed - come while you still can!

Hi everyone,

I am back in San Francisco and will be holding the Faithful Fools Sunday Meditation Program again this Sunday the 15, and also on Sunday the 22. Sunday the 29th I will again be out of town for the 90th anniversary of the Seattle Nichiren Buddhist Temple. Then I will again resume the regular Sunday schedule in November.

For those who don't know - I hold meditation/discussion meetings every Sunday (except when I am elsewhere) from 3 pm to 5 pm at 230 Hyde Street (between Turk and Eddy) in San Francisco at the Faithful Fools Meditation Hall. And it is a really nice meditation hall - complete with zafus and zabutons, a bell, nice blank white walls to stare at, a new polished wooden floor, and a very austere but nice little altar over which I hang a very nice gold lettered Omandala. It is as professional a little zendo (meditation hall) as one could wish for outside of an actual temple or practice center.

Anyway, we do silent sitting for the first 40 minutes (though we begin and end with 3 Odaimoku). Then we have a fairly informal discussion about the Dharma and daily life for the next 50 minutes or so. The last 30 minutes we do a Nichiren Shu style service, that of course centers on reciting the Lotus Sutra and Odaimoku.

Namu Myoho Renge Kyo,
Ryuei

Posted by Ryuei at October 13, 2006 09:31 AM