About our Wednesday evening Online Sangha meetings
Join time 6.50pm for 7.00pm start
How it works.....
Everyone is welcome to join us whether you are a complete newcomer or experienced practitioner. See the Newcomers Page for more information.
We ae using the Zoom online conferencing software.
When you click the link to join one of our meetings the you will be taken to the Zoom website and the software will automatically download onto your device and you may be asked to sign in. The software only needs to be downloaded once and works most devices i.e. iPhone, iPad, MacBook, iMac, Android smartphones and tablets, Windows desktop and laptop PCs.
When you click on the link for the first time Zoom will automatically download a small app to your device and you will be asked to sign in to Zoom. The software only needs to be downloaded once.
In order to fully participate you'll need to use a device, laptop or PC that has a web camera and microphone installed, but if you don't have these you can still join us - we just won't be able to see or hear you! If you don't have access to any of these you can join us by phone - either landline or mobile. Of course, if you join by phone you won't be able to see us and we won't be able to see you but you will be able to talk to us and hear us. To join by phone use one of the following numbers:
+44 203 481 5240
+44 131 460 1196
+44 203 051 2874
+44 203 481 5237
calls are charged at your normal rates
In order to save time on your first evening you may wish to download the software before the meeting. Click here to download and set up the software now.
Its very easy - here is a quick tutorial video - you only need to watch the first 50 seconds or so.
We ae using the Zoom online conferencing software.
When you click the link to join one of our meetings the you will be taken to the Zoom website and the software will automatically download onto your device and you may be asked to sign in. The software only needs to be downloaded once and works most devices i.e. iPhone, iPad, MacBook, iMac, Android smartphones and tablets, Windows desktop and laptop PCs.
When you click on the link for the first time Zoom will automatically download a small app to your device and you will be asked to sign in to Zoom. The software only needs to be downloaded once.
In order to fully participate you'll need to use a device, laptop or PC that has a web camera and microphone installed, but if you don't have these you can still join us - we just won't be able to see or hear you! If you don't have access to any of these you can join us by phone - either landline or mobile. Of course, if you join by phone you won't be able to see us and we won't be able to see you but you will be able to talk to us and hear us. To join by phone use one of the following numbers:
+44 203 481 5240
+44 131 460 1196
+44 203 051 2874
+44 203 481 5237
calls are charged at your normal rates
In order to save time on your first evening you may wish to download the software before the meeting. Click here to download and set up the software now.
Its very easy - here is a quick tutorial video - you only need to watch the first 50 seconds or so.
We communicate any last minute changes to the meeting schedule and in the unlikely event of a meeting cancellation we will email all members of the Online Sangha. If you haven't already signed up then please click this button:
Wednesday 1 July - A Celebration of Dharma Day
Traditionally the full moon of July is celebrated by Buddhists as the day the Buddha ‘Set in motion the Wheel of the Dharma’, the day he first communicated his vision of Enlightenment to another human being.
What exactly is ’The Dharma’? and how did the Buddha manage to convey his profound insight into the nature of reality?
What can we learn from that, how can we too understand and put into practice this amazing possibility of complete liberation?
How can reflecting on these words lead us out of the endless round of dissatisfaction and pain that marks human life?
It is a vast subject and one we will be exploring several of the core teachings of the Buddha over the coming weeks.
Wednesday, 1 July, it will be almost full moon, and we will be celebrating Dharma Day, with meditation, puja and reflections on the verse above, which contains the essence of the Dharma: the truth of how things really are and therefore the seed from which all Buddha’s teaching emerge.
You might like to make your own shrine at home, including something that invokes for you the Buddha’s teaching as it has affected you personally.
Over the coming weekend you can also join in other online Dharma Day celebrations, for example at Padmaloka Retreat Centre: https://thebuddhistcentre.com/padmaloka/join-padmaloka-community-dharma-day-festival-celebrations-sunday-5th-july
and from the LBC
https://www.londonbuddhistcentreonline.com/events/dharma-day-mitra-ceremonies-l-with-maitreyabandhu-suryagupta/
If you would like to study more background on the core teaching of Conditionality, a good place to start is “This being, that becomes” by Dhivan Thomas Jones (available in ebook or paperback from Windhorse Publications) and/or talks by Dhivan and others on Free Buddhist Audio.
Wednesday 8 July - The four Noble Truths (part one). Tonight we explore the first two noble truths investigating suffering and the causes of suffering.
Wednesday 15 July - The Four Noble Truths (part two). An investigation of the second and third Noble Truths looking at the cessation of suffering and the path that leads from suffering.
