Still point buddhist detroit

Note: Adults may choose to attend the full hour-and-a-half,. Third Sunday of most months, Noon — 1 pm While public services are designed with beginners in mind, we also offer this time every month for newcomers who may have questions about everything from Buddhist teachings and history to meditation practice and temple etiquette. Please note that you do not have to attend this orientation before coming to any of our public services.

Yebul Chanting Service a. Meditation Retreats are held on the first Saturday of most months: am — pm Includes sitting and walking meditation with a formal lunch at noon. Please RSVP in advance. An Introduction to Zen Meditation Course is also offered every year. Still, even after 25, we are both winded. After that, Anzen taps a singing bowl three times to commence our meditation.

Twenty minutes go by, as we sit cross-legged on our cushions in silence. I can smell the incense burning somewhere near the altar, where the Buddha statue also sits cross-legged. I try to focus on my breath, and on being here in this sacred space, now, in this fleeting moment. After meditation, we stand to do a chant called Yebul, which — to put it very basically — is an homage to all beings past and present, but especially to all the Buddhas who have come before now.

This part, the chanting, is particularly refreshing. We finish chanting and bow again to the altar. We bow once more at the entrance, and exit the sonbang. Returning to Still Point is like a reminder of all the things we need — always, but especially now.

Gratitude for what we have, in a time of so much loss. And on a spring morning in , when uniting has felt so forbidden, we can be here — socially distanced, but here.

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He was a Detroit firefighter for 18 years and he still works as a nurse. We take this Buddha nature, take this spirit of peace to the rest of the world, out into your neighborhood, to your family, to your job.

You move the world by moving your own community. The centers often host various chapters and departments within the local area, he said. The community center will have rooms for chanting and praying but also plenty of meeting space. Prominent members include recording artist Tina Turner and U. Hank Johnson, a Black Democrat from Georgia. Compliment this business High quality 0 Good service 0. Polite staff 0 Wide selection 0. Street address:.

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