North Star Library Offers Special Talk

Thursday, February 25 – 3:00 – 4:30 pm

The talk this month is entitled The Heart of Buddhist Meditation.  A medieval Zen story of skillfulness will illustrate the essential base for Buddhist practice: concentration and compassion.

During the talk, you will consider how the skillful use of these qualities illuminates the fundamental Buddhist understanding of The Three Marks of Existence, which are:  Suffering, Impermanence, and No-Self.

Lecturer, Dr. Stewart McFarlane is a well known scholar of Chinese Religions and Buddhism, and a teacher of Chinese Martial Arts.  He was Director of Asian Studies at Liverpool Hope University until his retirement in 2004.  He is author of many publications on Buddhism, Chinese Religions and Martial Arts, and has served in the close personal security team protecting His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his UK visits.

He now lives in Thailand and works with rescued elephants.

North Star Library is located on the west side of Sukhumvit Road, just north of Pattaya Klang and next to the Redemptorist Center.