Wednesday Daytime Dharma Drop-in Class

NEW, starts 8 Jan!
11.45am-12.45pm | by donation (suggested £6)
Stick around for lunchtime meditation, come early for volunteering

You can read Buddhist books and listen to talks on YouTube, but things will open up much more fully when studying Buddhism alongside others.

Theme Jan - March: Basic Buddhism, The Mandala of Five Faculties
The Buddha recommended that you need certain resources to become complete as a human being, and to 'wake up'.  We will be looking at a comprehensive set of personal qualities, the five faculties.  These are ways of "meeting" the experience of life and of others, analogous to the physical senses. 

8 January: the Buddha's teaching of five faculties.

15 January: 1. Mindfulness (smrti) as the central faculty.

22 January: 2. Confidence (shraddha) and the heart.

29 January: 3. Enthusiasm (virya) – energy.

5 February: 4. Wisdom (prajna) – insight into how things really are.

12 February: 5. Contemplation (samadhi) – meditation and unifying the mind.

19 February: the faculties as a harmonious mandala.

26 February: the faculties as a path to awakening (early Buddhism).

5 March: the faculties as a path in Mahayana Buddhism.

12 March: the faculties in everyday life

19 March: open session with questions and answers.

26 March: new theme begins.

Led by Ratnaprabha & Guhyasakhi