an Introductory Session on "Buddhism in Daily Life" (poster)

22 March, 2013 6:30-7:30pm

Quiet Room, 3rd Floor Koffler House (Multifaith Center), University of Toronto

569 Spadina Ave, Toronto, M5S 2J7 (map)

Contact: sgi at utoronto dot ca

 

 

We often heard, "It's my karma to experience this or that". Sometimes, life events hit on us in a way that seems hardly purely coincidences. We may recount how unlikely by chance that we come to know our soulmates; How similar our appearances and characters with our parents that we are born as their sons or daugthers; or how I had deified all odds to come to UofT to study. Is there underlying powers or deities that drive our fates and directs our destinies ?

 

We often have some parts in us that we don't like, maybe we're too lazy, too coward, not clever, overweight ..., Why I need to suffer these while some people seem to born carefree? Am I powerless in changing such persistence negative tendencies ?

 

All these questions had been addressed in the concept of karma, which are the registry of all our thoughts, intentions and actions since our eternal past. At the right moments, karma will manifest as events in lives that fall on us, based on whether we had made good or bad karma.

 

  Yet with its ubiquitousness, the essence of Buddhism teaches that we can transform our negative karma into benefits in lives, as we summon the great potentials and determinations that exists in everyone of us.

 

Here in this meeting, we will explain in detail the Buddhist concetps of karma, its relation to our lives and how we can take control of our karma.

 

 

Welcome everyone to this meetings, and let's all be the "writers of the scripts of our lives".

 

Quotes

 

"Present effects are due to karmic causes from the past. However, future effects arise from the causes we make in the present. It is always the present that counts. No matter what kind of Karmic causes we have made in the past, through the causes we make in the present we can achieve a brilliant future." - from Daisaku Ikeda, President of Soka Gakkai International (SGI)

 

Our Karma maybe as numerous as stars in a clear night sky. Our great vow at the present moment is the blazing sun. When the sun rise, the stars still exists but are no longer relevant.

 

A MUST READ Introduction to Karma

(Additional Information on Buddhism)

 

Note: Similar Buddhism introductory and chanting sessions will be held on specific Fridays in this Semester, at same time and location. Please refer to our website for updated information.