WELCOME to
our meditation circle, Wellesley Buddhist Community.
MEDITATION for clearing and centering ourselves in this moment
WEDNESDAYS 7- 8:15 pm
MONDAYS, THURSDAYS 12:30- 1 pm
Schneider Meditation Space (Directions)
Upcoming Events
For
more information, contact JiHyang x2793
Creating the World Around Us
Buddhism is a practice and a path which come out of an appreciation of interdependence. In
Buddhist tradition, our way of speaking this connection is “Om Mani Padme Hum”,
may the jewel be
within the lotus; may the mind may be within the heart.
To create
space in higher education for a connection between the student’s
self- reflective
awareness and the world around them is, as Kabat- Zinn mentioned
in his visionary talk last
spring, to create a new Renaissance. Here at Wellesley College,
I work to bring about that
Renaissance through our practice community, as well as through
Education as Transformation, a
movement founded on the principle that education is inherently
a spiritual process. Our field of
spirituality and education is expanding and developing with
such creativity and energy, and the
ability to make these connections so necessary in the twenty-first
century-- that it calls me to
deepen my own experience and to get to know myself better.
Like aspens in a forest, which seem
separate trees but are actually connected at the roots--the
more we all deepen our insight and
compassion, the more we may serve as catalysts, to bring about
a more interdependent and awakened
world.
So--may
we be instruments of this awareness, may we together awaken,
may all beings have deep and
natural peace.
In
the Dharma,
Ji
Hyang Sunim
Buddhist Advisor |