Next Saturday is the annual observance of Mahapajapati‘s life after the Dharma talk. A great opportunity to celebrate women, the mothers of all with focus on Buddhism through the first female nun. We recent had International Women’s day and so the timing is ideal.
Mahapajapati Gotami, the first woman to be ordained from the Buddha and to join the Sangha. She was the Buddha’s maternal aunt and adopted mother after her sister, Queen Maya (Mahāmāyā), the Buddha’s birth mother, died.
Every Saturday we offer early morning zazen (seated meditation), morning service, and again zazen at 9:30 am. We also will continue to offer a Zoom web conferencing for video and/or audio presence for the scheduled events. 9:30 zazen (you can log into the conference starting at 9am to socialize) for 40 minutes and a Dharma talk at 10:30am, followed by Q&A as well as an opportunity to check in and see how you are doing and tea and cookies in person after that. Please click here to be routed to our Zoom gathering.
Please join us this Saturday for this celebration and we hope to see you often!