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
The Saturday morning sessions aim to give you a practical way to live the life you really want and to explore what the Buddhist path looks and feels like. Each session includes an introduction to meditation followed by a presentation and discussion on an aspect of Buddhist practice. This week… 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
The Sangha Festival Day celebrates Sangha. This is the spiritual community that supports us in following the Dharma and is the third of the three jewels of Triratna. This day is an opportunity to celebrate and strengthen our spiritual community in Ipswich. More details nearer the time. How to join No… Read More »Sangha Day
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
