(Non)Buddhist Practice Posse

Welcome! We meet on every other Monday evening from 6-7:30 Eastern US Time. (See calendar)

To join, click the image below. It will take you to our payment app. Cost: $10/month (two sessions). This is a recurring subscription that you can cancel at any time. If you are currently unable to pay, please request the Solidarity link at inciteseminarsphila@gmail.com. You can also become a member of Incite Seminars for $10/$20/no cost per month. More information here.

We are currently reading Dogen’s Shōbōgenzō. The Shōbōgenzō (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) is the masterwork of the Japanese Sōtō Zen Master Eihei Dōgen (1200 – 1253). It consists of a series of lectures or talks given to his monks as recorded by his head monk, Ejo, who became his Dharma successor although Dōgen was involved in the editing and recording of some of the Shōbōgenzō. This is the first major Buddhist philosophical work composed in the Japanese language.

What is non-buddhism? The aim of non-buddhism is to “wrest the vital potentialities” that Buddhist theory and practice hold for the person, but to disable certain problematic tendencies associated with religions. We will explore, in practice and in theory, for example, how we might understand and benefit from the concept of “no-self” subtracted from the numerous over-determining Buddhist ideas that accompany this concept. The assumption is that the concept will then, and perhaps only then, become valuable material in our current situation.

To join, click the image below. It will take you to our payment app. You have options to back out along the way if you change your mind. If you are currently unable to pay, please request the link at inciteseminarsphila@gmail.com.