There are two important things to emphasize when we meditate: our motivation at the beginning and our dedication at the end.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

The New Meditation Handbook

Friday 14th December 2007
  at 7.30 pm

A guided meditation followed by a delicious 3 course vegetarian meal in our World Peace Cafe. Enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with like minded spiritual friends - bring your own friends or come and make new ones!

(Full payment in advance is required)

Please phone 01325 365265 to
reserve a place

Directors Corner

Hi there

Work has got under way with the extension at Atisha Centre (Please check our website for regular photos of the refurbishment of Atisha Centre).  We hope to have the new kitchen built and fitted by the next Feast of Delight, Friday 14^th December, 7.30pm.  The new dining room should be complete by the end of February 2008.

It is still not too late to help out with this project.  At the end of this article is a list of items that the Centre would like for Christmas if possible.  As you may know, Atisha Centre is a registered charity and any money saved on the work done will be wisely put to use on making sure Dharma flourishes in the region.  Also, by giving Atisha Centre a Christmas present, this year, you will be benefiting lots of people both now and in the future.  If you would like to help out, donations and presents can be sent to the Centre at Milton St.

If you don’t have enough funds to help out this way, then perhaps you would like to help us demolish the old kitchen. In the New Year the old kitchen cupboards are going to be knocked down and destroyed, walls & ceiling are to be plastered and the dining room will be re-fitted and decorated.  The dining room will be done by us without external builders and fitters.  Just let us know nearer the time if you would like to help with this one.

Finally, there is one bedroom still going spare at the Centre.  Moving into a residential Buddhist community might be just the start in the New Year for you, especially with the retreat season starting in January!  Rent is only £61.50 a week.  Just contact the Centre if you are interested.

Christmas wish list for Atisha Centre 

Buy Atisha Centre a sq Metre of floor covering for the kitchen and dining room. £26.67 per sq Metre

A tap, £60

Buy the Centre a kitchen sink, £200

2 black built in cookers, (brand name: Belling) £ 449.99 each from Comet

Buy a resident a food cupboard.  Hamilton Teak from Howdens, £125 each

Buy a corner kitchen unit for the Centre, £125

Dark coloured work surfaces, Jamoca from Howdens, £500.

Breakfast area/unit £125

Breakfast stools £50 each (2 needed).

If anyone would like to buy any crockery, cutlery or cooking utensils for the new kitchen you are more than welcome to — to go with teak cupboards (light brown), and a fairly dark coloured floor and work surfaces.  See pictures above.

1 boiler, £6000.

Dining room — dining chairs £20 each
(24 needed), dining tables £180 each
(4 needed)

Medicine Buddha Empowerment

Medicine Buddha Empowerment weekend — what
a wonderful time we had!

Here's some pictures from the event...

Thanks to everybody for all their efforts (especially Chödor of course!) and to everyone who came for making it such a joyful weekend.

Kelsang Wangyal making  the thanking offering
to Venerable Chödor.

Keep checking our website for more pictures from this very special Medicine Buddha Empowerment weekend and the recent Festival in Singapore.

Saturday 15th December - Friday 21st December

Retreat sessions at:

7.00am - 10.30am - 4.00pm - 7.00pm.

You don't need an empowerment to do this retreat, and you don't need to attend all sessions - just come to whatever you like.

No Booking Required - Everybody Welcome

In our previous lives, while under the influence of deluded minds, we have accumulated a lot of negative Karma. As a result, we now experience difficulties and obstacles to our Dharma practice. We have been accumulating non-virtuous actions and experiencing their suffering results since beginningless time; but now we have an opportunity to purify them completely. Since purification is the root of future happiness and spiritual realisations, we should strive to cleanse our mind of delusions and negative Karma by practising the meditation and recitation of Vajrasattva.

Each session will last ninety minutes and all se ssions are free.

If you have any questions about what we do in the sessions or anything else about retreats, just email Debbs at eeducation@atishameditation.co.uk

Meditation Classes
  every week throughout
  the area

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• Inner Peace ~ 12 min's;
• Pure Light ~ 15 min's;
• Inspiration~ 16 min's

2008 KADAMPA DIARY

 

• Auspicious days in the Kadampa calendar;
• Main puja and  offering days;
• Festivals & Dharma Celebrations;
• Special NKT events;

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