Thursday, 14th May, 8pm AEST
Thursday Sangha Group Sharings

Dear family, 

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Please join Jan, Dipika and Sarah as we enjoy another wonderful Thursday COS meeting!

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Typically on a Thursday, we sit quietly for a few minutes and then after the acknowledfement of country, the facilitator will share a reflection on a topic or question that they have posed for the group (more information to follow soon about the question or reflection).

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We will continue our theme of "no defilement, no purity, no increasing no decreasing" by looking deeply into the nature of change. This can be the cyclic patterns of nature, such as food and flowers becoming compost, and then the compost going back into the garden. Or it might be looked at in terms of our own changes and aging.
The question for reflection in breakout rooms is 'When I look deeply am I afraid of change? How do I react to it?

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We then enjoy 20 minutes of discussion in breakout groups and finish with a guided meditation.​

We hope you can join us 🙂

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Our theme for May 2026 is:
The Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore

Understanding the Sutra: verse 3, part 2
Listen Shariputra
All Phenomena bear the mark of Emptiness
Their true nature is the nature of
no Birth, no Death
no Being, no Nonbeing
no Defilement, no Purity
no Increasing, no decreasing

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Thay reminds us that we don’t have to die to become dust. We are already dust. We contain the whole cosmos.

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We can be arrogant when we think that we understand a speck of dust, just as we think we understand a human being. When we can see the no increasing, no decreasing nature of reality you will have no more fear, no more complexes (p67).

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He gives us the old proverb:
Be humble, you are made of dust
Be noble, you are made of stars.