What’s On

What’s On

September 2024

Available events: Festival Sangha Arts Advanced Meditation Singing

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Sat, Sep 21
  • 11:00am - 5:00pm
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    Activating the heart through image

    With Dharmamrta and Bhadra

    What activates the call of your heart?  This day is about sharing and celebrating all that creatively shapes our emotional and spiritual lives. What is it that has called you, what is it that creates the urgent longing to nurture healthy relationships with yourself, others and the world?

    Buddhist facts and concepts, however important, on their own, have no power to affect and change our personal frameworks of value and meaning. We rely more...

Mon, Sep 23
  • 7:30pm - 9:30pm
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    6 Monday evenings: Introduction to Buddhism & Meditation

    This is the first evening of the course. It will help you uncover genuine ease, contentment and meaning in life through exploring profound yet simple teachings. Come together with others to learn, discuss and discover the means to uncover how to become the change you want to see.

    Each session will be partly introducing meditation and partly about the Buddhist context, that helps meditation to be a real power for change. There will be input from the experienced teaching more...

Fri, Sep 27
  • 7:30pm - 9:30pm
    in person
    booking not required
    by donation

    Arts Events - Arts Café

    Arts Sangha

    In celebration of the vibrant and creative Sangha we are, the centre is reviving our Arts Café events. Our intention is to hold five events over the next year or so, on the theme of the Five-Buddha Mandala. For each of the events we will gather during the season of association with each of the five Buddhas and their consorts in turn. This will include a midsummer solstice celebration of Vairocana and his consort Akasadhatvisvari, whose qualities of illumination and enlightenment are more...

Sat, Sep 28
  • 11:00am - 1:00pm
    in person
    booking not required
    by donation

    Silent & Simple: in meditation

    Advanced Meditation Sangha

    For experienced meditators who are able to sit for 50mins unguided.

    50min unguided sit, 20min walking, and another sit.

    Join Nirajadhi and friends for a silent and simple session of practice.

    11am PROMPT start. Doors open 10:50am.

    Last Saturday of the month (except July, August and December).

    Our Centre runs on generosity and the majority of our income is from donations. We don’t have fix rates for our classes so income isn’t a more...

Sun, Sep 29
  • 10:30am - 4:00pm
    in person
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    Soulful Singing and Mantra day with Mahasukha

    Singing

    “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
    – Rumi

    African, sacred, uplifting and fun harmony singing and mantra with the unique and inspiring Mahasukha. We’ll have a morning of glorious 4 part-harmony songs from around the world, with accompanying infectious djembe rhythms from Mahasukha, and we’ll chant a mantra or two and make offerings in the afternoon. A joyful, meditative and more...

Mon, Sep 30
  • 7:30pm - 9:30pm
    in person
    booking not required
    by donation

    Introduction to Buddhism & Meditation

    Uncover genuine ease, contentment and meaning in life through exploring profound yet simple teachings. Come together with others to learn, discuss and discover the means to uncover how to become the change you want to see.

    Each session will be partly introducing meditation and partly about the Buddhist context, that helps meditation to be a real power for change. There will be input from the experienced teaching team plus an opportunity for small group discussion. more...

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