{"id":5257,"date":"2016-01-07T21:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T02:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:57:01","slug":"the-path-to-bliss-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/blog\/2016\/01\/07\/the-path-to-bliss-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Path to Bliss Seminar &#8211; Feb. 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Embraced by Boundless Light<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>2 sessions<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Registration ends January 31st, Starts February 14th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Path of Bliss Seminar is an inspirational study of the basic tenets of the <em>Jodo Shu<\/em> (Pure Land) tradition. This insightful course is offered to anyone who has some basic understanding of Buddhism and who is ready to experience an opening of the inner heart and inspiration from boundless compassion.<\/p>\n<p>This Seminar will explore the central message of Honen, the 13th century Japanese spiritual revolutionary, with wonderful depth to bring out the brilliance and simplicity of the Buddhist Pure Land Way. Importantly, students will learn about how Buddhism can be a practical and liberating spiritual path for ordinary people living in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar will explore essential questions like, what is the human condition? What is my purpose? How can I discover total spiritual liberation? Who or what is the vehicle to my emancipation? How do I live as a human being?<\/p>\n<h5><strong>BOOK SELECTION<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>The Promise of Amida Buddha: Honen\u2019s Path to Bliss <\/em>by Joji Atone &amp; Yoko Hayashi<\/p>\n<h5><strong>SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Feb 14<\/strong>. Presented by Dharma Teacher G. Link<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mar 13<\/strong>. Presented by Dharma Teacher G. Link<\/p>\n<p>To learn more and to register, visit our New England Institute for Buddhist Studies&#8217; web site<strong> here. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embraced by Boundless Light 2 sessions Registration ends January 31st, Starts February 14th &nbsp; The Path of Bliss Seminar is an inspirational study of the basic tenets of the Jodo Shu (Pure Land) tradition. This insightful course is offered to anyone who has some basic understanding of Buddhism and who is ready to experience an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13841,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions\/13841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}