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Saturday 5^th May

We will be celebrating Wesak on May 5th at Leusdon Memorial Hall (Map), on Dartmoor, along with the other Western Chan Fellowship groups in the South-West.
Arrive 10.00 for 10.30 am and finish 4.30 pm. All WCF friends and members are welcome to join us. Please circulate this to whoever may be interested.

Wesak is the day of celebration of the birth, enlightenment and passing away of the Buddha. Wesak is a koan - what is born, arrives and passes away?

This will be a day for meeting, joy, reflection, walking, purification and meditation and there will be a refuge ceremony for those who wish to take refuge in the Buddha Dharma.

Please bring vegetarian food to share. If you would like to attend, please let me know.

For directions to venue CLICK HERE

The programme  (which, like everything else in the Cosmos, is subject to change) is below:

                  Leusdon Memorial Hall

10:00        Tea/biscuits

10:30        Introduction to the day

Short Liturgy

Birth of the Buddha – Jake Lyne

10.45        Meditation

11.15        Break

11.30        Leaving home - Pat Simmons

11.45        Meditation

12.15        Lunch – please bring to share

12.45        Walk

1.30          Buddha's enlightenment - Jeremy Woodward

1.45          Meditation

2.15          Discussion chaired by Jeremy

2.30          Tea

2.50          Buddha's death and Parinirvana - Ned Reiter

3.05          Meditation

3.35          Break

3.45          Refuge ceremony followed by closing liturgy: Jake Lyne

4.00          Close and tea