Please bring cushions (if you have them) and veggie lunch
to all day events.
January
Saturday 12th. Sangha walk - meet Dingwall Tesco's car park,
by recycling bins
Thursday 24th. Start of introductory meditation course. See
introductory courses page for details
Feb
21st
learned the mindfulness of breathing and metta bhavana welcome.
Full moon puja to celebrate Parinirvana Day
(the Buddha's death)
March
7-9th weekend retreat at Wentworth House, Portmahomack.
All who've learned the minfulness of breathing and metta bhavana meditations welcome.
Suggested donation: 70/100
April
27th. Study day with creche - a modern take on a traditional
Buddhist text.
Venue:Wester Alves Farmhouse, Alves (between Forres
and Elgin)
Time 10 - 4.30pm
Suggested donation £15. Please bring veggie lunch
to share.
May
20th.
Full moon puja to celebrate Wesak (festival of the
Buddha's Enlightenment)
June
20-22nd June
Family festival at Laikenbuie to be led by Gunapala.
Meditation, discussion, activities for kids, puja.
Donations to cover food and setting up welcome, and
volunteers needed for construction of a compost toilet!
For further details contact Suzie 01343 850233 or
Andy 07761 321449
July
5/6th Meditation with Tejananda
The FWBO and WBO approach to meditation practice is
based around four principles; integration,positive emotion, spiritual death and spiritual re-birth, together with a non-practice,
just sitting.
These together comprise a way to wake up from the
delusion of a separate 'me' to the ungraspable 'suchness' of our awakened nature. In this weekend we'll be exploring the whole
of this system of practice and discovering how just sitting becomes a practice in its own right in which we open to the mysteries
of awareness itself.
Ardross Village Hall 10am-5pm Sat and Sun
Suggested donation £40 - 50
18th.
Full moon puja for Dharma Day
August
7-10th Belladrum music festival - come to the Buddha
tent! Volunteers for setting up and manning the tent very welcome.
8-15th. Glasgow Sangha retreat at Dhanakosa - people
from the Highlands are welcome
September
15th
Full moon puja for Padmasambhava Day
October
11/12th.
Paramananda
Meditating through the body
Led by Paramananda who has been teaching meditation
for over 20 years in Britain and the US. He is the author of Change your mind, a popular book on meditation.
"The longer I teach the more I feel that meditationis
a natural and very simple practice - in its essence it is just sitting with ourselves in an openhearted way"
Venue: Rowangarth, Spinningdale (near Bonar Bridge).
Suggested donation £40 - 70 (some accommodation will be available)
December
7th.
Practice day 10-4.30pm Anam Cara Inverness
suggested donation £15
