In the Path of the Buddha
invites you to venture into the pathways of the Zen Buddhist tradition.
Guided by the life--Iong Zen master, Dr. Raymond (Reed) Hardy, this
weekly gathering offers a unique opportunity to embrace meditation as a
mean of personal exploration and discovery.
In the words of the world renown, Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen is about
seeing into one's own nature. When one has reached this enlightenment,
he says, one sees all wrong views dissolve within oneself. A new vision
that produces deep peace, great tranquilit}$ and a spiritual strength
characterized by the absence of fear is born.
According to Bodhidharma, a 5th century Buddhist monk, Zen is a
special transmission outside the scriptures, not based on words or
letters, a direct pointing to the heart of reality so that we might see
into our own nature and wake up.
ABOUT THE ZEN MASTER
Dr. Raymond (Reed) Hardy is a former professor of Psychology at St. Norbert College. He first became interested in various meditation practices in 1969 after seeing a TV news broadcast of a Buddhist monk self-immolating on the stairs of the capitol building in Saigon, South Viet Nam.
How any human being could have done this became a nagging question that gradually resolved into an abiding interest in Buddhism and its related transcendental meditation practices. Hardy has been practicing daily zazen since 1978, when he offered his first "Meditation and Consciousness" course.
