Everyone is welcome to join our Summer Sangha Retreat which this year is being held round at your place! The online weekend retreat will focus on the Four Mind-turning Reflections in which the Buddha encouraged us to consider the fleetingness of life and its preciousness and the need to turn… Read More »All welcome to join our Summer Sangha Retreat @home
Our amazing BAM kula has produced a stunning downloadable ‘Action Calendar’ to help us all engage with the Buddist Action Month and provide a spring board to carry it on. Please share your BAM activities (in line with Buddhist principles) and any difference it made to others, the community, the planet,… Read More »BAM 7-day Action Calendar
Angie has been invited by BBC Suffolk to do some ’thought for the day’ type talks for Jon Wright’s evening show. They are to be aired in the week beginning 15 June. (Probably Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday). Themes she will be covering include impermanence and global interconnectedness, generosity, patience,… Read More »Dharma on BBC Radio Suffolk
The very popular series of ‘Meditation in the Park’ organised by the Ipswich Buddhist Centre resumes after lockdown with an outdoor mediation in Christchurch Park on Sunday 19th July at 3pm. Naturally. this event will be a little different to pre-lockdown, with greater distance between everyone. The Ipswich Buddhist Centre… Read More »Meditation in the Park
From Monday 18th May, The Ipswich Buddhist Centre will be offering a lunchtime meditation session every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in addition to its popular Tuesday lunchtime event. Led by an experienced Mitra in training for ordination, the online sessions will focus on our two main meditation practices, the… Read More »Lunchtime Meditation – now every weekday
This is addressed to anyone in whom that little seed has started to sprout – “What is this Mitra business all about?” Maybe you have noticed a Mitra at a class, on the team, helping to support it. Or perhaps you have been to a Mitra ceremony. So what are… Read More »Becoming a Mitra
You are probably familar with the wonderful Windhorse Publications, a right-livelyhood organisation who for so many years have helped spread the Dharma and supported many of us in our studies through the publication and supply of the books and resources we all need. Aware that the bookshops in Buddhist Centres… Read More »Windhorse – Free the Dharma
With the Centre closed our dharma practice at home has taken on a larger importance. For the time being, we can’t share our practice as easily but we can share the setting in which it takes place. We plan to launch a gallery on the IBC website featuring our Home… Read More »Home Shrines and Garden Buddhas
Events at The Centre may be on hold for now but there are still plenty of opportunities to deepen our engagement with the Sangha and our appreciation of the Dharma. Most study groups and some classes and courses are now meeting online using the Zoom or JitSi video conferencing platforms.… Read More »Events move online
