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Joyful Chanting Tuesday 6 - 7pm and Saturday 4-5pm (before a Sunday Service ) Everyone is welcome to come to RBC and chant with us. New folks and the experienced ... come on down! Enter through the Office Door. Here are the chanting books we use Joyful Chanting Book r7 Shoshinge_Book_r6 Dharma Book Group Wednesday 6:00 - 7:30pm
Every Wednesday we meet at RBC in the Fireside Room. The book group reads and discusses a Dharma book on an ongoing basis. Everyone is welcome - beginning and long-time Buddhists alike. Enter through the Office Door. Here is the link to the book we are reading... The Larger Pure Land Sutra trans. Inagaki Start with... Kikyomon - daily recitation RBC Golden Light Meditation
Thursday - 6:30 - 7:30pm We present traditional meditation techniques of sitting and walking meditation with clear intention. All levels of experience are welcome at the in person meeting. Please enter the meditation space quietly to help create a peaceful environment. There will be times for interaction as indicated by the meditation leader. RBC Yoga Saturday! 10 - 11am Live in person class only. An open yoga class for all levels, filled with vibrant energy and wise thoughts. Enter through the Taylor St. Door. Beginning meditation Class Semi-weekly - Every "Service Sunday" 9am before the service - Meditation class lead by a kind and experienced leader will guide 3 short sittings and have time for questions and discussion. Those interested in meditation are welcome. We present traditional meditation techniques of sitting meditation with clear intention. We teach and practice meditation as a healthful centering activity. We consider sitting meditation spiritually helpful, but not a process of “perfecting the individual”. You are already ok, just as you are. Please make a donation if you can. - Monthly -
RBC Women's Group First Sunday of the month 10:30-11:45am This open group is a refuge. Enabling women to talk about their lives and the challenges we face around relationships, work, children, our sense of purpose, direction and fulfillment. While we come together as RBC Sangha members, the group is not overtly focused on Buddhist questions and responses, instead it is intended as a mutually supportive gathering under the auspices of RBC Sangha. RBC Men's Group Last Saturday Morning 10am - 11:30am This group is a refuge. Enabling men to talk about their lives and the challenges we face around relationships, work, family, our sense of purpose, direction and fulfillment. While we come together as RBC Sangha members, the group is not overtly focused on Buddhist questions and responses, instead it is intended as a mutually supportive gathering under the auspices of RBC Sangha. Nembutsu Chanters - Various meeting times - This is our Chorus/chanting group that does public performances. If you enjoy making music with your voice this is the place for you. Artown is in July! |
Classes
Introduction to the Buddha Dharma Summer 2022 Class Schedule Saturday July 23rd, 30th - Aug 6th from 10:00am - 12:00 noon. The class will be offered on three Saturday Mornings - What is Buddhism? This introductory class is intended to present the foundations of the Dharma for new Buddhists at RBC. We will follow the path of Prince Siddhartha through his enlightenment experience and many years of teaching. The special focus will be on lay life and how Buddhism fits with everyday activities and experience. Please click HERE to sign up Introduction to Shin Buddhism Summer 2022 Class Schedule Saturday August 20th, 27th and Sep 3rd from 10:00am - 12:00 noon. The class will be offered on three Saturday Mornings - This introductory class is intended to present the core teachings of our Shin Buddhist denomination with special reference to daily practice and RBC activities. An important part of building your understanding and finding a supportive roll at RBC. Please click HERE to sign up. 
Tai Chi with Pamela!
she will be teaching 3 levels of Yang Family (37-Move) Short Form of Prof. Chiang Man-Cheng. Everyone is welcome - Tai Chi is a centuries-old art of moving meditation, and is the practice from which all martial arts are descended. Considered traditional medicine in China, it is also the most medically studied form of exercise in the West. The amazing list of health benefits extensively documented by Western medical institutions, includes reduced blood pressure, reduced stress hormone levels, improved leg strength, flexibility, and balance, improved heart, lung, and brain function, and more. These benefits occur both in the general population and especially in those with chronic medical conditions such as MS, Parkinson's Disease, cardiac and/or pulmonary disease and hypertension. Beginner - Intermediate -Experience Classes see below for times Beginner Level - Intended for those who are brand-new to the practice of Tai Chi, those who may in the past have done some other form, and those at any more experienced level of practice who still have a beginner's mind and want to focus on improving their understanding and practice of our Tai Chi fundamentals and principles. This class focuses principally on learning the basics of standing meditation, being rooted/grounded and soft, then how to move from our center (dan tien), and begin to activate the chi energy and allow it to flow. The first section of the Cheng Tai Chi form will be taught gradually. Beginner classes will be held from 9:30-10:30am on Tuesdays. Classes are donation based pay-what-you-can. All donations go towards Reno Buddhist Center's community outreach. Intermediate - for those who have absorbed & begun practicing our fundamentals and learned the first section of our Tai Chi form and want to continue progressing. This class focuses principally on reinforcing movement in accordance with our principles, becoming familiar with the "choreography" of the Tai Chi form, and learning to be connected to both earth's and heaven's chi. Beginners are welcome, but may find it challenging to truly learn without the basic grounding of the Beginner level. More advanced, long-term practitioners are also welcome and many have said they find it helpful in improving their personal practice. 10:45- 11:45a on Tuesdays 12:15-1:30p on Thursdays Experienced Level - Intended for those who have learned most or all of our Tai Chi form and wish to practice it regularly in its entirety. This class generally goes through a regular series of warm-up movements at the beginning, and then moves into practicing the form in a number of modes - from start to finish, by section, in repetitions of three, from end to beginning, in changing compass orientations, etc. Beginners and less-experienced practitioners are still welcome to attend and often enjoy observing, but they can find attempting to learn/practice at this level frustrating without sufficient grounding at the previous two levels. Experienced classes will be held Thursdays 11:00a-noon Saturday 8:45-9:30a More info TaiChi@renobuddhistcenter.org |
