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Meditation and Buddhism

• Click here for the latest Friends' Evening programme (up to 20-Dec-07).
• The next Part III Meditation and Buddhism course starts on Tuesday 16 January.
• The next Part II Meditation and Buddhism course starts on Thursday 8 March.

NEWS

The water damage has at last been made good (after nearly 11 months) and the hallway and stairs are freshly decorated and look lovely again.

Thursday 19th July was a special night to mark the completion of the refurbishment with a spontaneous ritual involving a symphony of singing bowls courtesy of Neil Gulliver, and a thorough tour of the Centre by all whilst chanting the Tara mantra. Magical!

We have had an interesting theme on Thursday Nights with the 'Life as Practice' series covering Reflective Practice with Jnanamitra, Meditation as Practice with Dayasara, Living with Illness or 'Breakfast in bed' with Amalaketu.

Dhammaloka visited us again from Birmingham to run a second Part 1 weekend course in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (A Jungian approach to personality type widely used in the business world)- the course was well attended and everyone appreciated the insights they gained into thier parsonality and how to practice more effectively. Different Personality Types need appropriate