Awake-in-Life: Zen & Crafting a Life Fully Lived

8-month Practice Program

• What’s important to you? — Are you fully aware of what your values are?

• How did you learn these values?

• Are the specifics and/or subtleties of your learnt values still pertinent to you?

• Are you wanting to live a life grounded in compassionate awareness & intentions of your own choosing?

• Would you like to be part of a group to discover & enact these values?

If so, the Awake-in-Life program of studies & engagement with the 16 Bodhisattva Precepts may be perfect for you at this time. These 16 Precepts are (Rev. Liên own wording. More traditional ones can be find on the web):

• 3 Refuges — Exploring how to know & be in: Awareness/Buddha, Teachings/Dharma, & Community/Sangha

• 3 Over-Arching Aspirations — To engage in non-harm. To promote life-affirming practices & actions. To be connect to oneself, with others, & from interconnection.

• 10 Guiding Values —- Living to realize & promote: life; contentment; love/connection; honesty; clear-heart & mind; kind speech; equity/non-competitiveness; sharing & receiving; openness of mind-heart; and non-separation/interconnectedness.

These can be, essentially, a set of values which, in the engagement with them, acts as guides for us to live more fully an awakened life.

Although this program isn’t open at the moment, you can email info.access2zen@gmail.com to find out when it will begin again.