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Festivals Workshops and special events
 

SANGHA EVENTS

Sangha is the community of practitioners who share and strive to embody the Buddha’s vision. Sangha comes into existence when we come together and its strength depends upon the quality of our relationship with one another. Our events are intended to encourage Buddhist practitioners to get together to enjoy and learn from each other.


Sangha evenings on Wednesdays
Regular Sangha evenings are held on Wednesdays. Keep an eye out at the centre for posters on our notice boards and behind the desk.
6.30 Food to share
7.30 Event: By donation

6 Aug  Exploring the Building Blocks of Sangha:
Part 3. Arthacarya: Skilful means
Continuing our exploration of the Sangrahavastus.

FESTIVALS

Padmasambhava Festival

Saturday 18 Oct 10am – 10pm. Padmasambhava Festival. With Visuddhimati, Lalitaraja and friends. Celebrate the Life and Liberation of Guru RInpoche.
With meditation and marvellous ritual.
Please bring vegetarian food to share for lunch and dinner.
No charge. Donations welcome.

 Full Moon Pujas
Hosted by the Friday Class Practice Evening
15 August.
suggested donation £6

Puja as a practice gives us the opportunity to connect with our ideals in a more emotionally concrete fashion through the use of ritual. The aim is to awaken the imaginative faculty bridging the gap between our intellectual understanding and our emotional response to Buddhist practice.

Friday Practice evenings are a weekly event.The full moon is seen as a particularly good time to practice together so if you can't make it any other time mark these dates in your diary.

FUND RAISING EVENTS
We have ongoing fund raising projects and initiatives.
Do feel free to come up with bright ideas for our fundraising appeals.
We rely on the energy and enthusiasm of all our friends to help us raise the income we need to keep the centre up and running.


SPECIAL EVENTS WORKSHOPS

Study Afternoon: Event for Volunteers
with Visuddhimati, Santva and VIcky
Mon 1 Dec 2.30pm — 4.30pm
No charge. Booking helpful.

An event for the many volunteers on whom we rely to keep our beautiful centre up and running. We appreciate the generosity of those who help by providing reception cover, supporting classes, cleaning, shrine keeping and maintenenace.
The event will include meditation and study of a selected sutta from the Pali Canon.

The Awakening of Faith
with Ratnaprabha
Sat 20 Sept 10am – 5pm By donation
For Order Members and Mitras Who have asked for Ordination

Ratnaprabha provides the following background information:
"Surfacing 1500 years ago, The Awakening of Faith became one of the greatest texts of East Asian Buddhism. It takes "The Mind of Man" as the starting point of all spiritual life. The Mind "includes in itself all states of being of the phenomenal and the transcendental world". This Mind is equated with Suchness, the Dharma-body, the Dharma-realm, and the Buddha-embryo. One's own mind, says The Awakening of Faith, is not ultimately different from this Mind-as-reality. But the perfuming effect of ignorance has whipped it up into anxious activity, like a wind gusting over a calm ocean, or like a mirror or gem with superficial dirt adhering to it. Some later Buddhists took this to mean that all we have to do is to realise that we are already in possession of original enlightenment. So the only practice you need is to keep telling yourself -- and others -- that you are already enlightened, until you believe it! But The Awakening of Faith also expounds the gradual path to enlightenment in some detail. There is "no such thing as skipping over the stages". "I recommend Hakeda's translation (Columbia University Press, 1967), translation available here



Event for families
with Karunagita, Amaragita and team.
for parents/ carers and children, including time together, time apart, creativity and ritual. All ages welcome. Bring veggie lunch to share and come prepared to help with the smooth running.
Sun 9 Nov 10.00 - 1.30. £10/ £7 conc. Booking essential.


BodyMind Health Days 2008
7 Dec10.30 – 5.30
Practitioners from the BodyMind collective will be offering taster sessions for a fraction of their usual fee. A timetable will be available nearer the time. Booking recommended through reception.

Events which are by donation are run on the basis of generosity. Feel free to give more or less than our suggested donation..
 
Drumming workshops
 
Drumming on Saturdays Led by Carl Davies
5:00pm - 6.15 pm. Circle open to all. Beginners welcome
6,30pm - 8:00 pm. Storytelling, mantra and ritual workshop.

No drumming classes in August. Classes will start again on 20 September.

£9/6 with £1 for drum hire.