Sunday Night Meditation on Zoom
2024-12-15 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for our weekly (except for the Second Sunday for Lecture & Discussion) Sunday night virtual meditation on Zoom. The zoom link will be provided in the email announcement. If you are not signed up to receive our weekly emails, please sign up here: http://eepurl.com/h1xjvz
If you are new to meditation and would like some guidance in advance of the sit, please email us at info@philabuddhist.org.

Sutra Study (Hybrid In-Person/Zoom)
2024-12-28 09:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Plymouth Meeting Friends, 2150 Butler Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA, 19462, United States
Join us for our monthly Sutra (Sutta in Pali) study. We will be meeting both in person and on Zoom. For those who would like to join us in person, we will meet at Plymouth Meeting Friends. Directions can be found here: https://philabuddhist.org/directions-to-plymouth-meeting-friends/. The Zoom link will be provided in the email announcement. If you are not signed up to receive our weekly emails, please sign up here: http://eepurl.com/h1xjvz
For this month’s sutra study, Dr. Robin Carr will lead MN 87 Piyajatika Sutta: From One Who Is Dear translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
What does non-attachment mean in the context of family life and intimate loving relationships? How do we minimize suffering within these relationships and the changes life, illness and death bring to them?
From 9:30am to 9:50am we will have 20 minutes of mediation, and the sutra study will begin at 10am after a short break.
If you have any questions, please email us at info@philabuddhist.org.

Sunday Night In-Person Sitting Meditation
2025-01-05 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for our monthly first Sunday night in-person meditation at Plymouth Meeting Friends. This is an opportunity to come together and sit in silent meditation. There will be two periods of sitting meditation with a short period of walking meditation.
If you are new to meditation and would like some guidance in advance of the sit, please email us at info@philabuddhist.org.

Bringing Buddhism into Your Life (on Zoom)
2025-01-12 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Please join us this Sunday from 7:30pm to 8:30pm for our monthly Bringing Buddhism into Your Life series where we meet to discuss a Buddhist topic and how it relates to our modern lives. The topic will be announced the week before and you can receive the announcement by signing up for our email here: http://eepurl.com/h1xjvz

Ordinary Mind is the Way: A Day of Zen Practice
2025-02-01 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Plymouth Meeting Friends, 2150 Butler Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA, 19462, United States
We are pleased to announce a hybrid (in person & on Zoom) silent retreat, “Ordinary Mind Is the Way: A Day of Zen Practice”, led by Zen Teacher Peter Nichols on Saturday, February 1st, 2025, atPlymouth Meeting Friends.
In a Zen dialogue recorded in ancient China, a monk asks, “What is the Way?”
The Zen master replies, “Ordinary mind is the Way.”
The question is centuries old, probably as old as the human race. It’s our question too: Who am I? What is it to be alive? Why does my life feel unsettled or unsatisfying or unhappy or muddled or…you fill in the blank? Shouldn’t it feel great? What must I do to make everything OK?
The master says, You already have everything you need. It’s the lesson Dorothy brought home from her journey to the Land of Oz: “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any farther than my own backyard.”
Our Ordinary Mind Is the Way retreat will be a day of Zen practice—together as a group—that includes how-to instruction for zazen (meditation), plenty of sitting periods (approx. 25 min) broken up by walking, a dharma talk, a little chanting and bowing, time for eating and resting, private face-to-face interview with the teacher (optional), and a chance to ask questions and talk about your experience at the end.
Come prepared to surrender being in control, to practice hard, and to see what happens when you do nothing more than pay attention to what’s as ordinary as your own backyard.
All PBA activities are free of charge, but we recommend a donation of $25-$50 to the teacher if you can. Please don’t let financial issues keep you from attending. RSVP HERE.
This will be a hybrid retreat, so for those who are not able to join in-person, a Zoom link will be provided in advance of the retreat.
Peter Nichols was a student of Bernie Tetsugen Glassman and John Daido Loori in the late 1980s and early 90s. Later he practiced with Pat Jikyo George from whom he received dharma transmission in 2022. He is a husband and father, a retired writer-editor, and a teacher at the Zen Center of Philadelphia.

CANCELLED: Wednesday Night Meditation Practice Discussion
2025-11-26 19:30 - 20:30 UTC | Zoom
Note that tonight’s meditation practice discussion is cancelled in observance of Thanksgiving.
