Hertford Buddhist Meditation

For anyone doing our mindfulness course, you might be interested in seeing other presentations of the material online, especially if you have missed a week or so.
There are some youtube videos of the author of the course and book (Maitreyabandhu) presenting the course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist…
Also Meredith pointed out that there are some mp3s of talks online from when the course was presented at Brixton Buddhist Centre
... https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/series/ details…
Keith
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This is one of my favourite suttas.
It is a welcome relief from other religions or gurus expecting us to believe outrageous things with zero evidence.
Keith

Hi there,
We have recently started a really interesting and vibrant mindfulness and meditation course. It is 8 weeks long, and we have just completed the third week.
But it is fine to join the course at any time. It does not matter if you have missed previous weeks, and if you want you can always catch up by reading the book “Life with Full Attention” by Maitreyabandhu (although you don’t have to).
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By the way, the London Buddhist Centre have an excellent Buddhist channel https://www.lbc.org.uk/…/communicating- the-dharma-online.ht… . All the podcasts are also available as videos on their youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAwcmCW7 nQ7Y2nlq0506xXQ
Recent podcasts and videos have been guided meditations for mindfulness of breathing and metta bhavana
If you sign up to https://thechallengelbc.com/ you will get emails when they release a new one.

Just to let you know that Leah has been invited to go on a three month retreat in Spain starting in April. During this retreat she will be ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order.
She will be our first "home grown" order member at Hertford, and it will have a very positive and deepening effect on our group.
She has created a page https://www.gofundme.com/f/ordination-at- akashavana with more information, and where people are able to give money to help fund her retreat if they wish to.

Just to let you know that the yoga starts again from Tuesday 28th January 2020
Yoga for the Sangha Every Tuesday 6 to 7 pm
... At the Quaker Meeting House 50 Railway Street Hertford SG14 1BA
All Levels Welcome Bring your own Yoga mat £5 per session Contact Amber 07942612117
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This was taken at the end of the class on Tuesday.
Come along and join us next Tuesday for our Mindfulness and Meditation course.
It does not matter if you are totally new, and missed week 1, you can just start the course at any week, (and just catch up later by reading the book if you want to).

The London Buddhist Centre have created a one off “6 week meditation challenge” starting next Tuesday (although there is a warm up week that started yesterday).
There is no charge, and you can sign up for it at https://thechallengelbc.com/
By the way the website suggests that you come to the London Buddhist Centre every week, but I have checked with them, and they have confirmed that coming to the Hertford Buddhist Group on Tuesday evenings instead is an acceptable substitu...te.
The blurb states: “The Challenge: > Come to the London Buddhist Centre once a week > Meditate everyday We’ll support you with: > Meditation classes on Tues and Weds evenings at our home in Bethnal Green. > Bi-weekly emails with guided meditations, helpful tips and inspirational videos. How to take part: > Sign up by entering your email in the box > Commit to Tues or Weds evenings for your weekly meditation class. > Join us for the warm-up week: Tues 7 or Weds 8 Jan (7.15pm-9.30pm) > Six-week challenge kicks-off: Tues 14 & Wed 15 Jan (7.15pm-9.30pm)
The Challenge is free but we’ll ask if you’d like to make a donation. “
Happy meditating!
Keith
p.s. The LBC are having an open day on 19th Jan with free refreshments. 11am to 5pm, but you can drop in and out during the day. It will be a great day out especially if you have not been to the LBC before http://www.lbc.org.uk/event-details/-1332
p.p.s. Don’t forget our 8 week mindfulness course starts next Tuesday in Hertford. This is a great thing to come to especially if have not been before, or for a while
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Hi there,
Happy New Year!
Another decade has come and gone.
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By the way, there are no classes until 7th Jan. Have a great Christmas break.
If you feel the need for some meditation, the London Buddhist Centre https://www.lbc.org.uk/ is open pretty much as usual, and has several meditation days over this period.

There is a Buddhist exhibition at the British Library covering 2,000 years and 20 countries that you may in interested in.

Hi everyone,
These are some photos taken at Sangha Day at Cambridge Buddhist Centre a couple of weeks ago. They show our new mitras with the rest of our sangha who had gone to Cambridge to support them, and also by themselves.
We have three more Tuesday night classes before we take take a couple of weeks break. There is no class on the 24th Dec or 31st Dec.
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