So after being around the Temple for about year this is only the fourth time I've sat in on a teaching. The thing to remember is that this isn't a place of sermons but a place of learning. The first "teaching" I went to was the same as if I'd gone to the last lecture of an educational program about a subject I only had cursory knowledge of. In other words, I had no real grasp of what they were talking about. Then I went to two "beginner" teaching sessions, and it gave me some frames of reference. While photographing the day's inter-faith teaching makes four. I not only got to do what I enjoy most but I also listened. The first two teachers covered things I'd heard in the beginner's class months ago. I was surprised by how much more "fleshed in" my basic understanding was considering I mainly stray around the grounds. I also began to have an inkling as to what I need to do next. Oddly enough, and totally by coincidence, the sun had shifted enough to cast light into the hall, reflect off of something (?), hit the eye in the Buddha's brow, and then twinkle back at me. I almost laughed. I'd been in my little area at the back of the hall for hours and it was the only time the sun did that from my perspective.
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