Year of the Mandala 2025
“The Mandala is not just an exotic symbol, not just of artistic interest. We all suffer from psychic disintegration... we are in need of a means of integration. We must find that higher point, that nucleus, which reconciles conscious and unconscious. And around that we have to organise, re-organise, re-integrate our own psychic contents, we must give birth, if you like, to our own Mandala”. - Urgyen Sangharakshita
In a Buddhist mandala, the central focus is Enlightenment, symbolised by a Buddha figure evoking love, wisdom, and creativity. The NLBC exists to help us bring these qualities into the centre of our own lives, with the NLBC itself serving as a ‘mandala’ of events, principles and community to participate in. To enter into the mandala, just step through our doors:
Daytime Dharma Class: Wednesdays on the Five Spiritual Faculties
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.
Young People: the Buddha’s Five Faculties
The Buddha’s Five Faculties 21 Feb, Cultivating Faith 21 March, Discovering Wisdom 18 April
Monthly Class for Women+: practitioners talks about a more personal experience of the Five Spiritual Faculties
Saturday Class:* on a Circle of Five Buddhas Mandala
A Circle of Buddhas 8 Feb, The Self-Aware Buddha 8 March, The Buddha of Beauty 12 April, The Buddha of Love 10 May, The Buddha of Fearlessness 12 Jun, The Buddha of Ultimate Reality 12 July.
*part of the Saturday class weekly programme
