The Aberdeen Buddhist Group runs on the basis of dana or generosity. People leading evenings give their time for free but it costs us £30 per week to rent the Quaker Meeting House and we have occasional costs such as hosting this website. We ask people coming to meetings to make a contribution, but in order to keep the teachings available to all we leave the size of that contribution up to the individual. For many years those contributions have gone into a dana bowl – a bowl put out at the end of meetings for cash donations. Now, however, we are finding that lots of people do not carry cash and donations have gone below a sustainable level. It seems we need to find a way of continuing the tradition of dana in the age of contactless cards and banking apps.

If you would like to help the group continue to offer the dharma and support practice in Aberdeen, but you don’t often make it to meetings or you don’t carry cash for donations on the evening, an alternative is to make a bank transfer or, better still, set up a standing order to the group. As with cash donations, the size of this is entirely up to you. Our bank details are:

Aberdeen Buddhist Group
Bank of Scotland
Sort code 80-05-16
Account: 00184161

Thank you!

Oct 05: Alan – Equanimity
Oct 12: Nigel – Become an Independent Thinker
Oct 19: Practice group
Oct 26: Nigel – A Gradual Path

Nov 2: Rescheduled: Alan – Equanimity
Nov 9: Julian – Sutta study: identifying a wise person
Nov 16: Practice group
Nov 23: Julian – Sutta study
Nov 30: Nigel – A Whole Life Path

All meetings are 19:30 to 21:30 in the Quaker Meeting House, Crown Street.

We won’t be holding meetings for a while in order to avoid spreading Covid-19. Further updates will be posted on this site when we have them.

Over these three weeks we will be covering the Threefold Path, in which the path is broken down into ethics, meditation and wisdom, with each providing the foundation for the next.

25th April 2018  The Threefold Path: ethics
2nd May 2018  The Threefold Path: meditation
9th May 2018  The Threefold Path: wisdom

 

REGULARS’ GROUP (Wednesdays 19:30 to 21:30)

The regulars group is open to anyone who has been on an introductory course or who is already familiar with Buddhism and meditation. Evenings marked INTRODUCTION are suitable for complete beginners.

03 May  The eightfold path – Nigel
10 May  Walking the path – Nigel
17 May  Refuges and precepts – Alan
24 May  The Ānāpānasati Sutta – Alan
31 May  The same but different, but the same – Nigel

07 Jun  Don’t get mad, get dhamma! Anger management in the suttas – Shona
14 Jun  The Saraniya Sutta: the principles of cordiality – Julian
21 Jun  Summer celebration – Alan
28 Jun  The eight worldly winds – Nigel

05 Jul  Dharma Day – Alan
12 Jul  Life is not an easy ride – Cliff
19 Jul  Buddhism at work – Eszter
26 Jul  The four elements – Julian

02 Aug  Sigalovāda Sutta pt2 – David
09 Aug  INTRODUCTION A very short introduction to Buddhism – Alan
16 Aug  The five precepts – Nigel
23 Aug  Right speech – Nigel
30 Aug  Jhāna – Nigel

Venue details

REGULARS’ GROUP (Wednesdays 19:30 to 21:30)

The regulars group is open to anyone who has been on an introductory course or who is already familiar with Buddhism and meditation.

01 Feb  Nigel – How do you breathe?

08 Feb  Nigel – Anapanasati

15 Feb  Nigel – Creating worlds

22 Feb  Alan – The Sedaka Sutta

01 Mar  Shona – Nurturing your inner adult

 08 Mar  Nigel – Desire

 15 Mar  Julian – Four dharma summaries

 22 Mar  Spring celebration

 29 Mar  Nigel – The 8 worldly winds

05 Apr  Julian – ‘What did you expect?’

12 Apr  David – subject to be confirmed

19 Apr  Nigel – The sublime attitudes

03 May  Nigel – The Eightfold Path

10 May  Nigel – Walking the Path

INTRODUCTIONS

Sat 22 April – Introduction to meditation 10:00-13:00

Wed 26 April – A Very Short Introduction to Buddhism 19:30 – 21:30

Meeting times and place

REGULARS’ GROUP (Wednesdays 19:30 to 21:30)

The regulars’ group is open to anyone who has been on an introductory course or who is already familiar with Buddhism and meditation.

6^th Apr             The Sangrahavastus – four things that build community
13^th Apr           How to Recognise the Dhamma
20^th Apr           Introduction
27^th Apr           Introduction
4^th May            Skilful selfishness? – the Sedaka Sutta
11^th May          Into the Stream
18^th May          Wesak Celebration – anniversary of the Buddha’s enlightenment
25^th May          The Five Aggregates
1^st Jun              The Seven Factors for Awakening
8^th Jun             Perfect Action
15^th Jun            Perfect Livelihood
22^nd Jun           to be confirmed
29^th Jun            to be confirmed
6th Jul              Introduction
13th July          Introduction

All meetings are in the Quaker Meeting House, 98-100 Crown Street.

 Study Group

The study group meets every other Sunday in members’ homes and studies books chosen by the group. If you would like to join the study group, please contact the group email.

 

May

Wed 14^th         Wesak / Buddha Day festival

Wed 21^st         The First Precept

Wed 28^th         A Very Short Introduction to Buddhism 

June

 Wed 4^th          The Second Precept 

Wed 11^th         Double meditation 

Wed 18^th         The Third Precept 

Wed 25^th         The Social Teachings of the Buddha

The study group is going back to basics with a book we have done before: Vision and Transformation by Sangharakshita. It’s an introduction to the Buddha’s Eightfold Path, one limb of the path per chapter and an excellent practical introduction to the teachings. There is a free pdf for those with e-readers at http://www.sangharakshita.org/_books/Noble_Eightfold_Path.pdf Otherwise, we have a number of spare copies in the library.

The study group meets fortnightly(ish) on Sunday mornings in members homes. If you would like to join, please contact us.

Meditation posture, mindfulness of breathing and ‘metta bhavana’ meditations

Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 98-100 Crown Street

Date: Saturday 31st of August, 10:00 to 13:00

Cost: by donation