"Connecting with Our Buddha-nature"

Join us for as we begin the new year, and a new decade with a special evening to inspire our practice in 2020 and beyond!

Our guest speaker, Scott Tusa, will guide us in ways to connect with our Buddha-nature. The essence of the Buddhist path is the teachings on Buddha-nature (awakened-nature).  Buddha-nature represents the extremely positive news that our essence, no matter how many mistakes we make, is not fundamentally flawed. It is the opposite of original sin and affords us the potential for true freedom.  In the Buddha's first utterances post-awakening, he described this fundamental ground of our nature as profound, peaceful, beyond constructs, luminous, unconditioned, and present as an intrinsic wisdom within all beings.  

At its most practical, our Buddha-nature affords us the potential to grow, evolve, and embody our genuine goodness. When we understand, and eventually through meditation experience this as our essential nature, there…