Speaker: Reverend Jikai (Online from the Hawkesbury Region, NSW)
Monday 15 June 2026 | 7.00-8.30pm AEST
Location: Online (Zoom link below)
Cost: Free
In contemporary Western Buddhist circles, it is regrettably not uncommon to hear “faith” being marginalised from the discussion. At the stronger end of the spectrum, it is sometimes maligned as “a blind adherence to dogma” or “a commitment to cultural baggage”, and at the gentler end of the scale, it is written off as some kind of “an intellectual compromise”. Online, we’ve all been told that “Buddha-Dharma isn’t religious”, or that “Buddhism is a science, requiring no ‘trust’ whatsoever.” But when we encounter such appraisals, it is vitally important that we pause, and consider how it is that one might actually step onto a path of radical spiritual transformation like the Path of the Buddhas, if we were to rely solely on those of its elements which already conform to our understanding?
In this talk, Reverend Jikai will attempt to show the vital importance of the concept of ‘faith’ to the Buddha-Dharma, and demonstrate that it is not the end of enquiry, but its indispensable beginning. By re-framing faith as an active humility of “withholding disbelief”, the discussion will explore the overlapping terms which get translated into English as ‘faith’, and explore how these serve as the foundation for all study and practise of Buddha-Dharma more broadly. Join us, and learn how re-claiming this basis is crucial for crossing the threshold!
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