Reno Buddhist Center

  -Weekly – Joyful Chanting  Tuesday ​ 6 – 7pm and Saturday 4-5pm (before a Sunday Service ) ​Everyone is welcome to come to RBC and chant with us.  New folks and the experienced … come on down! Enter through the Office Door. Dharma Book Group  Wednesday  6:00 – 7:30pm Every Wednesday we meet at RBC in the Fireside Room.    ​The book group reads and discusses a Dharma book on an ongoing basis. Everyone is welcome – beginning and long-time Buddhists alike.  Enter through the Office Door.  Here is the link to the book we are reading… The Other Shore: Heart Sutra by Thic Nhat Hah Start with… Kikyomon – daily recitation RBC Yoga Saturday! 10 – 11am  Live in person class only.  An open yoga class for all levels, filled with vibrant energy and wise thoughts.  Enter through the Taylor St. Door. Beginning meditation Class Semi-weekly – Every “Service Sunday” 9am before the service – ​Meditation class lead by a kind and experienced leader will guide 3 short sittings and have time for questions and discussion. Those interested in meditation are welcome. We present traditional meditation techniques of sitting meditation with clear intention. We teach and practice meditation as a healthful centering activity. We consider sitting meditation spiritually helpful, but not a process of “perfecting the individual”. You are already ok, just as you are. Please make a donation if you can.    – Monthly – ​RBC Women’s Group  First Sunday of the month 10:30-11:45am This open group is a refuge. Enabling women to talk about their lives and the challenges we face around relationships, work, children, our sense of purpose, direction and fulfillment. ​While we come together as RBC Sangha members, the group is not overtly focused on Buddhist questions and responses, instead it is intended as a mutually supportive gathering under the auspices of RBC Sangha. RBC Men’s Group  ​Last Saturday Morning 10am – 11:30am This group is a refuge. Enabling men to talk about their lives and the challenges we face around relationships, work, family, our sense of purpose, direction and fulfillment. While we come together as RBC Sangha members, the group is not overtly focused on Buddhist questions and responses, instead it is intended as a mutually supportive gathering under the auspices of RBC Sangha. Nembutsu Chanters – Various meeting times – This is our Chorus/chanting group that does public performances. If you enjoy making music with your voice this is the place for you. Artown is in July! Please support RBC. We always appreciate your donations. Many thanks for your support through the tough times. Classes Introduction to the Buddha Dharma Winter 2022 Class Schedule Saturday Jan 22 from 10:00am – 12:00 noon. The class will be offered on three Saturday Mornings – What is Buddhism? This introductory class is intended to present the foundations of the Dharma for new Buddhists at RBC. We will follow the path of Prince Siddhartha through his enlightenment experience and many years of teaching. The special focus will be on lay life and how Buddhism fits with everyday activities and experience. Introduction to Shin Buddhism Winter 2022 Class Schedule Saturday Feb 12 from 10:00am – 12:00 noon. The class will be offered on three Saturday Mornings – This introductory class is intended to present the core teachings of our Shin Buddhist denomination with special reference to daily practice and RBC activities. An important part of building your understanding and finding a supportive roll at RBC. Tai Chi with Pamela! she will be teaching 3 levels of Yang Family (37-Move) Short Form of Prof. Chiang Man-Cheng. Everyone is welcome –  Tai Chi is a centuries-old art of moving meditation, and is the practice from which all martial arts are descended. Considered traditional medicine in China, it is also the most medically studied form of exercise in the West. The amazing list of health benefits extensively documented by Western medical institutions, includes reduced blood pressure, reduced stress hormone levels, improved leg strength, flexibility, and balance, improved heart, lung, and brain function, and more. These benefits occur both in the general population and especially in those with chronic medical conditions such as MS, Parkinson’s Disease, cardiac and/or pulmonary disease and hypertension. Beginner – Intermediate -Experience Classes see below for times Beginner Level – Intended for those who are brand-new to the practice of Tai Chi, those who may in the past have done some other form, and those at any more experienced level of practice who still have a beginner’s mind and want to focus on improving their understanding and practice of our Tai Chi fundamentals and principles. This class focuses principally on learning the basics of standing meditation, being rooted/grounded and soft, then how to move from our center (dan tien), and begin to activate the chi energy and allow it to flow. The first section of the Cheng Tai Chi form will be taught gradually. Beginner classes will be held from 9:30-10:30am on Tuesdays.  Classes are donation based pay-what-you-can. All donations go towards Reno Buddhist Center’s community outreach. Intermediate –  for those who have absorbed & begun practicing our fundamentals and learned the first section of our Tai Chi form and want to continue progressing. This class focuses principally on reinforcing movement in accordance with our principles, becoming familiar with the “choreography” of the Tai Chi form, and learning to be connected to both earth’s and heaven’s chi. Beginners are welcome, but may find it challenging to truly learn without the basic grounding of the Beginner level. More advanced, long-term practitioners are also welcome and many have said they find it helpful in improving their personal practice. 10:45- 11:45a on Tuesdays 12:15-1:30p on Thursdays Experienced Level – Intended for those who have learned most or all of our Tai Chi form and wish to practice it regularly in its entirety. This class generally goes through a regular series of warm-up movements at the beginning, and then moves into practicing the form in a number of modes – from start to finish, by section, in repetitions of three, from end to beginning, in changing compass orientations, etc. Beginners and less-experienced practitioners are still welcome to attend and often enjoy observing, but they can find attempting to learn/practice at this level frustrating without sufficient grounding at the previous two levels. Experienced classes will be held Thursdays 11:00a-noon Saturday 8:45-9:30a ​More info TaiChi@renobuddhistcenter.org

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Reno Buddhist Center ​820 Plumas Street Reno NV 89509 (Corner of Plumas & Taylor) admin@renobuddhistcenter.org Office Hours Tues – Friday 11:00am – 5:00pm appointments preferred 775-525-1182