4/10 Book Group Reading in The Dhammapada by Gil Fronsdal and transcripts of some Gil Talks

[Anne Foster]

The Dhammapada: A Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations by Gil Fronsdal 
And upcoming  NEW book

 Next Zoom meeting: Friday, 4/10/26 from 5-6:30 p.m. Pacific time

Plan for the Next Two Weeks
4/10 Finish our current book, The Dhammapada
Chapter 26. The Brahmin. Starting with stanza 369.

Test using Dharma talk transcripts as the basis of our meeting
For the rest of the meeting we will discuss the transcripts a few of Gil’s talks from earlier this year.  If we like this approach we may tackle a whole Gil series in this way in the future. Attached you will find a “Machine generated transcript” of 4 Gil talks from his series on Love. Having a paper copy will help us with our discussions. The links to the actual talks are below.

1/5/25 talk: Dharmette: Love (1) Introduction to the Brahmaviharas
 https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/24543
1/6/25 Dharmete: Love (2) Choosing Love 
https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/24547
1/7/26 Dharmette: Love (3) Caring for Self to Care for All 
https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/24551
1/8/26    Dharmette: Love (4) Unhurried Love 
https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/24557

4/17 Start our new book
Even if we don’t finish discussing the transcribed talks, we plan to start our new book 4/17. I’ll send out reading assignment after our 4/10 meeting.
Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence, by Rick Hanson (2013)

The Dharma-Inspired book group is self-led. Anne Foster is acting as facilitator and contact person: afo...@rawbw.com.  

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