Sunday Sutta:The Dhammacakka Sutta; the Buddha’s first teaching. Week 1: history, brief overview. Week 2: The 8-fold Path. THIS WEEK: The 4 Noble Truths. Next week: 4 Truths times 3 factors. Sunday 6pm. The sutta can be downloaded here[print page 1,2 turn over, print page 3,4].
August Retreat:Friday 15th to Sunday 24th. Themed on the Satipatthana Sutta, considered by many as ‘the’ meditation manual of the Buddha. “The Four Foundations of Awareness.” Some accommodation is available and you are welcome to join for all or part of the time or, just come by the day and head home in the evening. For accommodation, register using the Guest Application form on the web site – comment: “Winter Retreat”
New Public Office:Being the vassa there is not that much news so, the new office is big news 🙂 The internet should arrive next week and almost all furniture is in place. Systems are slowly evolving.
Vassa:Generally it has been suitably quiet. Venerable Kusalacitto is currently on self-retreat with Ven. Aruno to follow. The usual events continue pretty much unchanged.
Saturday Meditation Workshops:These continue as scheduled. The 3rd Saturday was added – maybe a year ago? – and attendence of late has been patchy. Its continuation depends on attendence. 1st & 3rd Saturday of every month, 1 to 5pm – check the calendar.