The Aberdeen Buddhist Group will be open for meetings every Wednesday evening this July. Many thanks to those who have made donations or set up standing orders in response to our recent appeal. These will allow us to afford the rent at the Quaker Meeting House this month. If you would still like to contribute, our bank details are at Contributing to the group.

We have made some changes to the format of meetings. One is that we will finish earlier – at 9 pm – to make it easier for people who have to catch buses or travel from a distance. The other is that not all evenings will have a pre-arranged talk or theme, but we will always be open for members to meditate together and the kettle will always be on. The monthly practice discussion on the second Saturday of the month will remain a fixture.

Themed meetings arranged at present are:
3rd July – Planning – continuing the discussion about reorganising the group.
17th July – Practice discussion, led by Graham.
24th July – Threefold puja, followed by discussion.

The 26th of June meeting will be a planning meeting. Having lost a number of key members recently we are reconsidering all aspects of the group in order to make a fresh start. We had a very positive meeting this week with lots of ideas but we would like to continue the discussion before making firm decisions next week. All perspectives would be useful, including regular attenders, people who haven’t made it along for a while for whatever reason and potential new members.

02 Aug Different strokes by Alan
09 Aug Viriya – energy by Lucy
16 Aug Practice discussion led by Alan
23 Aug Secular Buddhism by David
30 Aug Talk by Lucy
06 Sep Everything is teaching us by Nigel

05 July Self and non-self by Alan
12 July Go With The Flow by Nigel
19 July  Practice discussion
26 July  How Do I Do This? by Nigel