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Nyung Nye

Friday 8pm May 25 to 6am Monday May 28

An explanation of Nyung Nye

Medicine Buddha Puja

Thursday 31st May at 7.00pm

and also

Saturday 2nd of June at 7.00pm

Everyone welcome!

Saka Dawa Puja & Brighton Benevolent Society

Everyone welcome

Sunday June 3 at 10.00am

Harnessing Our Potential

One Day Meditation Workshop

with Dr Ross Moore

June 24th 9am to 4pm

Bookings essential

Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote a wonderful letter to each of us which is in the FPMT Annual Review 2011: Cherishing Life.

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Dharma Quote

Why is bodhichitta necessary for success in meditation? Because of selfish grasping. If you have a good meditation but don't have bodhichitta, you will grasp at any little experience of bliss: 'Me, me; I want more, I want more.' Then the good experience disappears completely. Grasping is the greatest distraction to experiencing single-pointed intensive awareness in meditation. And with it, we are always dedicated to our own happiness: 'Me, me; I'm miserable, I want to be happy. Therefore, I'll meditate.' It doesn't work that way. For some reason good meditation and its results – peacefulness, satisfaction and bliss – just don't come.

Lama Thubten Yeshe gave this teaching during a five-day
meditation course he conducted at Dromana,
near Melbourne, Australia, in March, 1975