December 2015
SiVIC Winter Holiday Assembly
The SiVIC Board would like to invite our Affiliates, friends, Interreligious Leaders Forum members and supporters to a special Winter Holiday Assembly in Sunnyvale. Come meet your friends and neighbors in the interreligious community, hear some reflections from the recent Parliament of the World's Religions meeting in Salt Lake City, and enjoy vegetarian finger foods prepared by the Chung Tai Zen Center. All are welcome, but please help us plan by letting us know that you plan to attend at…
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Understanding Islam: Buddhist-Muslim Dialogue
On a daily basis, we read and hear conflicting information about Muslims and Islam in the media. Muslim culture often isn’t very well understood and there are many misconceptions about it. To help sort out fact from fiction, please join the Chung Tai Zen Center of Sunnyvale on Sunday, January 31, 2016 for a unique opportunity to increase our understanding about the Islamic faith, tradition, and practice, past and present and Muslim culture. Ismael Nass and Aisha Morgan from the Islamic Speakers Bureau…
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SiVIC Forum: The Ways of Compassion
The Ways of Compassion: Method to Practice Forgiveness and Loving-kindness Goal: Turn “compassion” from a concept into an actual spiritual practice. Abbot Jian Hu Shi will give 15-20 minutes presentation on the various methods in Buddhism to help us practice unconditioned compassion, to cope with people who have hurt us, and to develop patience and tolerance. Participants are invited to share on ways, anecdotes, contemplation, and meditations from their respective traditions so we can learn from each other. RSVP to rsvp@sivicouncil.org
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SiVIC Interreligious Leaders Forum – February 2018
SiVIC Forum February 2018: Mindfulness: Buddhist Psychology February 11, 2018, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Chung Tai Zen Center 750 E. Arques Ave Sunnyvale, CA 95125 Join us for a discussion with Abbot Jian Hu of the Chung Tai Zen Center and Caroline C. Fleck, Ph.D. on Mindfulness in Modern Psychology and the Buddhist Analysis of the Mind. Buddhist mindfulness concepts and meditation techniques have become an important part of certain western psychology disciplines. Therapies developed with mindfulness at the core are…
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Buddha’s Birthday Celebration Ceremony at Chung Tai Zen Center, Sunnyvale
Over 3,000 years ago, the great compassionate Buddha came to this world to awaken our Buddha nature. To celebrate the Buddha’s Birthday, the Zen Center will hold a "Bathing the Buddha" Ceremony on Sunday, May 20, at 11 a.m. By bathing the baby Buddha, it is meant for us to clean the impurities from our minds so as to manifest the Buddha within. We invite you, your family, and friends to join us in this memorable event and dedicate the…
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Memorial Service for the Rev. Dr. D. Andrew Kille
Andy’kille's memorial service will be on Sunday, September 9, 2018, at 2:00 pm at the Chung Tai Zen Center, 750 E. Arques Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to: ———————————— The Educational Center P.O. Box 11892 Charlotte, N.C. 28220 (704) 375-1161 ———————————— Silicon Valley Interreligious Council (SiVIC) c/o Joy-Ellen Lipsky 183 Goldenrain Dr. San Jose, CA 95111
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