The Noble Eightfold Path - the Fourth Noble Truth - provides the basis for our Zen practice and gives us a way to bring the Buddha’s teachings into our own life experiences. It is the teaching that illuminates and animates the Four Noble Truths, leading us to insight into the true nature of phenomena and to liberation from suffering.
Please join us for an eight-week study of the Eightfold Path, led by Myoshin Laurie Haley. Two texts will provide the basis for discussion:
Gil Fronsdal, “Steps to Liberation: The Buddha’s Eightfold Path,” $12 paperback or $5.99 Kindle on Amazon
Bhikkhu Bodhi, “The Noble Eightfold Path, The Way to the End of Suffering,” free at http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/noble8path6.pdf
Thursdays, March 2 - April 20, 2023
6:45 - 8:00 pm
San Antonio Zen Center
417 W. Woodlawn, San Antonio, TX
Meetings will be in-person. Zoom participants are also welcome to participate using the following link and passcode:
Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3fMCa6e
& passcode: 674394
April 6 and April 13: We will spend two weeks on the Concentration Group: Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration.
Please read Bodhi Chapters V, VI and VII, and Fronsdal, Chapters 9, 10, 11
Possible topics for discussion:
Bodhi defines “effort” as practice + determination. Why is effort crucial to the Eightfold Path? What specific kind of effort is required?
Do you have experience working with the hindrances – sensual desire, ill will, dullness/drowsiness, restlessness/worry, doubt? How did you work with them?
What are the 7 Factors of Enlightenment and why are they important?
The programs of the San Antonio Zen Center are made possible by donations offered by members and attendees of the San Antonio Zen Center. We do not charge for our programs, but your donations ensure that we can continue offering the Dharma to the San Antonio community.