Manchester Buddhist Centre

Continuing the theme of the Five Dimensions, Principles or Stages of the Spiritual Path

These five dimen­sions have recently been brought to prom­in­ence in the Triratna Buddhist Community as the five main prin­ciples or facets of the spir­itual life, import­ant to develop and keep in balance:

• Integration and mindfulness
• Positive or cre­at­ive emotion
• Vision or spir­itual death
• Transformation or spir­itual rebirth
• Receptivity or spontaneity

This time we’re look­ing at the dif­fer­ent med­it­a­tion or reflec­tion prac­tices we might engage in for the fourth stage of med­it­a­tion and spir­itual rebirth / transformation

• Hear Dayanandi speak about this stage

Breakfast!

Nowadays we’re start­ing at 9.20 am with a shared break­fast. Please bring cof­fee, crois­sants etc.

Who is the club for?

The club is open to Friends, Mitras and Order Members who have at least six months exper­i­ence of reg­u­lar med­it­a­tion prac­tice as taught in the Buddhist con­text of the Triratna Community.

It isn’t suit­able for begin­ners — please see med­it­a­tion courses for details of intro­duct­ory ses­sions, or try the Tuesday after­noon prac­tice ses­sions if you have just fin­ished an intro­duct­ory course

What’s involved?

The club gives us the oppor­tun­ity to med­it­ate, hang out with other med­it­at­ors and receive input on tak­ing our prac­tice further.

We focus on vari­ous aspects of med­it­a­tion including:

• cre­at­ive ways to work in meditation
• what to do when we get stuck?
• med­it­a­tion on and off the cushion
• hear­ing about other people’s exper­i­ence of meditation

We some­times end with some chant­ing and ritual

Future ses­sions

We usu­ally (but not always) meet on the third Saturday of the month.

• Next ses­sions