Intro Course: Feeling Stressed? Try the Buddha's Recipe for Well-being

Winter is upon us; life is complicated; and the mood of the times is dark. Twenty-five hundred years ago, the Buddha taught that mindfulness and kindness offer the surest refuge from human conditions such as these. But don’t take his word for it! Try it for yourself…

In this introductory course, Dh Narottama will teach the two most basic Buddhist meditation practices, Mindfulness of Breathing (Anapanasati) and the Cultivation of Loving Kindness (Metta Bhavana). These cold days...

Green Tārā and the Fourth Lakṣaṇa - a new piece of writing by Sangharakshita

Composed during the latter part of December and completed on New Year’s Day 2018, the starting point here is the four sādhanas (sādhana is a visualisation of a Buddha or Bodhisattva figure) Sangharakshita received from one of his teachers, Jamyang Khyentse Rimpoche: Mañjughoṣa, Avalokiteśvara, Vajrapāṇi, and Green Tārā, and their ‘correspondence’ (in the hermetic sense) with the lakṣaṇas, the samādhis, and the vimokṣas leading to a series of reflections on the Path of...

Meditation is .....

To Meditate is to stop, be present and acknowledge gently and fully what is going on. And then to turn the mind, supported by kindness towards the object you have chosen whether it be one’s breath, kindness or anything else.

By doing this we gradually create a mind imbued with those qualities: friendliness, spaciousness, calm, attentiveness …….

I hope you can join us for meditation this week:
Thursday   7 - 8 pm
Sunday     8 - 9 am
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Embracing the Winter of Things

Embracing the Winter of Things
Sundays, January 7 - February 25, 9.30am-12pm

This Sunday we launch a new series for January and February: Embracing the Winter of Things. The depths of winter create a context for us to sit still and just be with the passage of the seasons, accepting endings and considering new beginnings.

Join us for meditation and the first in an eight-week series of exploration into how we can find beauty through paying attention to impermanence and the nature of...