BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17170@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260502T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260502T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T225700Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2026-05-02/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Views about views-Fronsdal DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Views about views-Fronsdal An expl oration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a different short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Saturdays \, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays\, 12-1. All are wide open and you are welcome t o come twice a week or once in a while.\n\nThe participants over the years have found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as important as the reading itself. While many small groups begin with a check-in\, with a session only an hour long\, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conve rsation. Those who are frequently in the group get to know each other very well this way\, and those who are new will soon find they are among frien ds.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to tr y that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: Saturday May 2\n\n\nThe pred ominant teaching regarding views is the importance of not clinging to any opinions\, philosophies\, doctrines\, or religious teachings. This include s views about ultimate religious truth. The text teaches that to find peac e\, a follower should shake off every view without embracing or rejecting anything—this includes views about views. A number of verses are critica l of any assertion that one’s own religious beliefs are the truest or be st\, while others’ [beliefs] are inferior. …Letting go of their attach ments\, sages have no need for any doctrine in terms of theories\, abstrac t concepts\, or beliefs. With no reliance on such doctrines\, the wise per son does not oppose anyone else’s doctrine.\n—Gil Fronsdal (2016)\, Th e Buddha Before Buddhism\, pp. 10-11. [commentary on an early Buddhist tex t called the Aṭṭhakavagga (Book of the Eights)]\n\nHow to join:\n\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324\, pa sscode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +16699009128 \,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar and c lick on a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-read ing+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "S acred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often th an not our sources are secular--but it's worth describing the qualities of a sacred text\, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\n connect to something of supreme importa nce to us\n feel more connected to other beings or to the universe\n fee l more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be more fully and authentically ourselves.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.uucpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09 /Resonant-Reading.png CATEGORIES:Adult,Learning,Ongoing Events,Small Groups END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR