Sangha Night: Archived Handouts

Click on the date/topic listed below to download the handout for previous evenings:

• Feb 6: Making Dharma Study a Practice
  
  
• Feb 13: Public Talk: "Death, Grief and the Human Heart" by Parami (no handout)
  
  
• Feb 20: Public Talk: "Ethics for the 21st Century" by Parami (no handout)
  
  
• Feb 27: What is a Buddhist?
  
  
• March 5: The Goal of Buddhism
  
  
• March 12: The Founder and his quest
  
  
• March 19: The mythic Buddha
  
  
• March 26: The Buddha we can contact
  
  
• April 2: The base analysis - the disease and the prescription
  
  
• April 9: The many dimensions of the Dharma
  
  
• April 16: Sangha as a means of development
  
  
• April 23: Sangha as an end in itself
  
  
• April 30: Public Talk: Buddhist Practice - Karma, Ethics, and Four Right Efforts (no handout)
  
  
• May 7: Practice Evening: double meditation (no handout)
  
  
• May 14: Urban Retreat, Public Talk (no handout)
  
  Exploring Buddhist Practice – The Five Ethical Precepts
  
  
• May 21 & 28: Why be ethical?
  
  
• June 4: The first precept – expressing interconnectedness
  
  
• June 11: The second precept - the principle of generosity
  
  
• June 18: The third precept – from craving to contentment
  
  
• June 25: The fourth precept - the principle of truthfulness
  
  
• July 2: The fifth precept – awareness, not escapism
  
  
• July 9: Reporting in on our Ethical Reflections (no handout)
  
  
• July 16: Meditation Practice Evening (no handout)
  
  
• July 23: Nagasuri will be sharing photos and reflections about her work in India with ex-untouchable Buddhist women (no handout)
  
  Exploring Buddhist Practice – Meditation: starting July 30
  
  
• July 30: The place of meditation in the path
  
  
• Aug 6: The FWBO System of Meditation
  
  
• Aug 13: Welcome back for Akasamuni (no handout)
  
  
• Aug 20: Helps and hindrances in meditation
  
  
• Aug 27: Celebratory Puja: Sangharakshita's Birthday (no handout)
  
  
• Sept 3: Meditative states
  
  
• Sept 10: The mindfulness of breathing
  
  
• Sept 17: The metta bhavana
  
  
• Sept 24: Personal reflections on our meditation practice (no handout)
  
  
• Oct 1: Mitra Ceremony for Jill Robertson, all welcome (no handout)
  
  
• Oct 8: Meditation Practice evening (no handout)