~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~*~.~ Guest Minister: Rev. Allen Wells "It's easy to trap ourselves by thinking we are who we were, who we should be and/or who we might become,” says Rev. Wells. “According to The Buddha, though, we trap ourselves by thinking we are even a self at all! Most of our fighting occurs around protecting our identities as persons, organizations, religions and countries." Rev. Wells will explore the questions: “What if we could escape from ‘ourselves’ and enjoy undivided, unbounded, free-flowing living? What might such freedom mean for us, and what might it mean for jurisdictions such as Israel and Palestine?'”
Sunday, March 7th
BRIDGES, BORDERS OR BOTH
Speaker: Sally Ward
What helps us choose where to put our daily energies while trying to make our dreams of peace our world's reality? In exploring this question, we can open our awareness to how both the language of separation and society's manipulation by the media's use of it encourage border-building and undermine our abilities to bridge differences between us both interpersonally and internationally in our daily lives. By revealing some examples of this, Dedicated LUUF member, Rutgers University Journalism and Mass Media graduate, and 10-year student of the Tibetan Buddhist Mahayana school of thought, Sally Ward suggests that perhaps we can begin to walk with a more wakeful eye so our dreams of a world community with peace, liberty and justice for all may be achieved.
Sunday, March 14th
UN-BECOMIN G OURSELVES