Sensei Mui will present a workshop on the Teaching of the Buddha.

This month’s workshop will focus on the Buddha’s analysis of mind. We can analyze the mind by seeing what it does and expose its nature.

In the Buddha’s teaching the mind creates Samsāra. Samsāra literally means “wandering-on.” Samsāra is not a place but process: the tendency to keep creating worlds and then moving into them. As one world falls apart, you create another one and go there. At the same time, you bump into other people who are creating their own worlds, too.

The play and creativity of the process can be enjoyable. It would be harmless if world making didn’t involve so much suffering. The worlds we create keep caving in and giving us suffering and confusion instead of peace of mind and happiness.

This is why the Buddha tried to find the way to stop samsāra-ing.

In this workshop we will investigate our own personal “world-making”..

RSVP here: hongaku@me.com