Do you notice the bad bricks?

Two offerings for you this week:

Saturday night (Feb 3) 7pm Coogee Croquet Clubrooms

Showing some of short films from Tricycle Magazine’s Buddhist Film Club

BYO   Vego food and drinks to share

and 

One of the fellas who comes along to our Monday Night Men’s Dharma Study at The Sydney Buddhist Centre shared this Ajahn Brahm clip with us and it brought tears to my eyes so I thought I’d share it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiu7iHzYQhQ

Hope you...

Two Invitations

Dear Coogee Meditators

On the Australia Day Long Weekend The Sydney Buddhist Centre is holding a retreat to which you are all invited. It’s a lovely opportunity to relax, invest come care into our retreat centre and also have a retreat experience of meditation and some reflection on The Buddha’s teachings. We are on the banks of The Georges River and the swimming is lovely - there’ll be time to relax and unwind.

Here’s a link if you’d like to book. Cost is $50...

The Breeze of the Dharma

It was one of those really hot, humid days we’ve been having lately. I was sitting somewhere experiencing the oppression of it when a gentle, cool breeze blew in. 

It was beautiful: an elixir. A cool breeze can revivify, uplift one’s spirits and give us the encouragement to carry on. 
Or, it can just bring sweet and very welcome relief …….

And it reminded me of the parable of the rain cloud which The Buddha used to describe the...

Meditation This Week

On Sunday December 17th we have Vajradaka visiting from the UK

Vajradaka is a meditation teacher who has lived and breathed (pardon the pun) his practice for decades. He lives at Vajraloka, one of our long time retreat centres in North Wales in the UK.

https://www.vajraloka.org/

He will be presenting a workshop for us at the Coogee Croquet Club on Sunday December 17th from 10 am - 1 pm

All are welcome and...