Tools for Living Your Life Our new season is ‘Tools for living your life’. We will base each morning on a theme from the eponymous book by Vajragupta. These Saturday morning sessions will be suitable for anyone seeking a meaningful spiritual path while living everyday lives full of family, work… Read More »Saturday Intro Session
Join Ariyanivata for a Study Morning. As a prelude to the Parinirvana Day festival on the 25th February at the Centre, we will be looking at extracts from the Pali Sutta The Mahaparinibbana Sutta ( Part of the Digha Nikaya no. 16 ). The longest of all early discourses,… Read More »Men’s Sangha Gathering
Meditation Morning The men of the sangha join together for spiritual friendship, discussion and study. If you identify as a man and you sometimes or often attend The Centre, please do come along. This week we have a morning of meditation exploring and experiencing integration while connecting through our own… Read More »Men’s Sangha Gathering
Padmasambhava Day is one of the most lively festival days in our calendar. It celebrates the semi-legendary figure of Padmasambhava who overcame malicious local deities to introduce Buddhism to Tibet in the 8th Century. But why is he so important to us? What are Termas? What could he mean to… Read More »Padmasambhava Day
This year the Ipswich Sangha will be celebrating Dharma Day with a focus on Milarepa. This 11th century Tibetan had an extraordinary life story. He produced many songs and poems; became a famed meditator and he was a man of wisdom. Urgyen Sangharakshita (Bhante), the founder of our Buddhist Community… Read More »Dharma Day
The Buddha Festival Day celebrates the day that Siddhartha Gautama achieved enlightenment in India 2500 years ago and became the Buddha whose teaching we follow. This year we explore the life of the Buddha through the important events and significant places in his life in northern India including his birth at… Read More »Buddha Day – in the footsteps of The Buddha
The Parinirvana Festival Day is our opportunity to mark the end of the Buddha’s earthly existence and an opportunity to reflect on the life and death of our teacher and our own experience of impermanence. If you wish to bring a photograph of a friend or loved one who has… Read More »Parinirvana Day
Come along for a lively discussion on one of Buddhism most popular teachings. (Check back here for updated info on the theme of the evening nearer the time!) Friendship, Connection, Transformation and the all important Cake! Come and get it all at our First Friday class. There will be meditation,… Read More »Young Buddhist: First Friday
See the New Year in with others in an atmosphere of reflection, contemplation, sharing stories and kindly awareness. There is a choice of arrival times: 7pm, 8.30pm and 10pm. Please bring snacks and nibbles to share but note that this is an alcohol-free event. 19.00-1930 Arrive: Doors open19.30 – 20.30… Read More »New Year’s Eve – Meditate to Midnight
Bridge Wood This is the second part of a mindful ritual in two parts. We meet in the light at 11.30 am on the 25th. The ritual involves a walk in silence along a path in the wood to a big oak tree, where we meditate and chant and then… Read More »Dark & Light outdoor ritual – Light
