Fri 27 Nov: " Buddhist Teachings on Happiness" by Tenzin Dechen Rochard, 730pm
We all have the potential to be profoundly happy, joyful and at peace within ourselves, whatever may be happening in our world. Any suffering or discontent is only ever caused by the negative emotions, perceptions, and conceptions that are present, either manifestly or latently, within each individual's own stream of consciousness. By recognising, understanding and transforming these unskilful states of mind, we can give rise to more compassion and wisdom in our own hearts, improve our relationships with others, and make a real contribution world peace.
Dechen is English and has been a practising Buddhist since 1984. She was ordained as a nun by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1986 and remained within the monastic order for twelve years. She completed several three-month solitary retreats whilst in England during 1987-8. Then she went to India where she completed a traditional 10-year study programme in Buddhist studies at a Tibetan monastery in Dharamsala. Since her return to England as a lay-woman she has translated and edited the Insight volume of Geshe Sopa's oral commentary on Tsongkhapa's "Steps on the Path to Enlightenment" (forthcoming, Wisdom Publications). She is now doing a PhD in Buddhist philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Dechen also teaches meditation, Buddhism, and Tibetan language, in the UK and abroad.
Geshe Sopa => www.deerparkcenter.org/NewFiles/sopa.html
VENUE: Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.
Sun 5 Dec: DAYDREAMS - festive & meditative circle dances from many cultures + dash of live music & song
led by Bethan & Stefan Freedman, 11am - 5pm
Bethan and Stefan Freedman create enchantment with their particular way of balancing and blending dances. They were among the first sacred/circle dance teachers in the U.K. They teach both traditional dances and their own outstanding choreography, sometimes bringing in live music and song to add to the intimacy of the occasion. In response to the group their dances range from fiery and passionate to deeply mystical.
Both teach with clarity. They support and encourage dancers at all levels. Together they create a festive and inclusive atmosphere. ALL ARE WELCOME.
Bethan trained in dance at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, and delights in sharing the exquisite style that opens up secrets and joys of each culture through dancing.
Stefan creates dances to explore many dimensions and moods of contemporary world music and sacred songs. He plays a number of folk instruments.
Further info on www.worldance.org Soft drinks are provided – Please bring an item of food for buffet lunch
Cost: £22 - £30 (sliding scale). Pay at the door if you haven't booked in advance! Enquiries: Jill Hope ~
e: ~ tel: 01277 363 085
VENUE: The Meadows Community Centre, 1 St Catharine's Rd, Cambridge - ONSITE PARKING -
Web map with arrow on streetmap.co.uk
Tue 8 Dec: A Healing Space and Meditation with Dan Kendall (US)
Dan is Abbot of the Esoteric Buddhist Centre is Los Angeles.
Dan will be with us at 2pm for healing session (donations)
6pm talk (free/donations)
730pm a bringing forth the light ceremony to empower the altar in the Sukhmani Centre (no charge, donations welcome)
Please help spread the word around and see you there!
Love and light Fateh, 07811 459 229 => www.sukhmani.co.uk
Sun 13 Dec: Christmas get-together of the Cambridge Subud Group, 2:30-5:30pm
We'll have some home made entertainment programme. Please bring food to share (Christmas related nibbles, cake etc.) and drinks (Tea and coffee will be provided) and your kids, family and friends. Subud members from other groups as well as everybody interested to meet us are invited to join us. (www.cam.net.uk/home/subud/)
If you would like to entertain, please contact Emmanuel Martin masterymartin[AT]yahoo.co.uk
Venue: Bharat Bhavan, Mill Road (foot of the railway bridge), Cambridge, CB1 2AZ. Click here to see location in Cambridge street map Contact: Ralph, tel. 01223 510442
Thu 17th Dec: "Dancing Towards the Light & Wintersolstice" - Dances of Universal Peace with Ralph (Rainbow Dance), 7:30-9:30pm"I got ecstatic just by watching you dance and sing!" (Ricky, watching us dancing "in public" at the Mill Road Winter Fair Cambridge, 5th December '09)
Be prepared for an uplifting experience, singing and dancing in a circle.
No Experience required. More about the Dances of Universal Peace Cost: £6 - concessions
CHANGE of Venue: Bharat Bhavan, Mill Road (foot of the railway bridge), Cambridge, CB1 2AZ. Click here to see location in Cambridge street map
Sat 19th Dec: Winter Solstice Celebration, Godmanchester, 18.00 to 23.00
Celebrating the transfer from the darkness into the light. Come along and enjoy an evening of Circle Dance Please bring food for a shared super - Soft drinks provided.
Cost £10:00 , £8:00 concessions
Contact Norman on:- 07901826274
or e-mail:- norman[AT]sibley.me.uk
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Post Street, Godmanchester -
map with arrow on streetmap.co.uk
Christmas & New Year Special:
You are invited to read and view the presentation - and an article from Ralph.
May it inspire you! Ralph The Gift of Life - a presentation
About Christmas & Yule
Sat 26 Dec - Boxing Day: Scottish Ceilidh - folk-dancing, 7:30pm-10:30pm
As in the past years, Michael Snellgrove invites everyone to a public evning with folk dancing (Scottish Ceilidh):
We form clusters of couples, and a caller will give instructions what to do. The result is normally quite a confusion - and lots of fun.
SEE YOU THERE In folky dress!! Caller as before Our Jolly PAUL - Will be FUN!!
Please bring some food and drink to share - no alcohol! (& about £2 contribution for hall hire).
Call Michael on 01223 522 042, and let him know if you'll come (and which gender you are).
See you there? - Ralph & Vitalija
Venue: The Hall of the United Reformed Church, Hartington Grove / Cherry Hinton Road (right next to FMHs.) - Click here to see location in Cambridge street map
Sun 27 Dec: Taizé chants, 9:30am - 10:15
Experience the spine tingling harmonies and the uplifting feeling of singing in harmony with others. This group is meeting on the 2nd & 4th Sunday of each month and led by Ralph.
We just sing and introduce each voice. Complete beginners are welcome. Everyone who thinks, they cannot sing: don't worry, you are not alone. FREE of charge.
You are very welcome to stay with some of us for the Quaker Meeting at 10:30.
Venue: small room, Friend's Meeting House, 91 Hartington Grove - Click here to see location in Cambridge street map
Sat 2 Jan 2010: TEA PARTY at Libra Aries Bookshop, 4pm to 8pm
We do hereby invite you to a TEA PARTY "for no other reason than it was the quickest way to check out who was still awake, or alive on this awful slippery post-new-year Saturday afternoon, drug-out hung-over & weak, all over aching for something..." (Bella Basura, 1998).
Winter Solstice Blessings, Jean & Tim.
VENUE: Libra Aries Bookshop, 9 The Broadway, Mill Road, Cambridge CB1 3AH, Tel: (01223) 412 411
www.libra-aries-books.co.uk
Sun 3 Jan '10: Service of Universal Worship (devised by Hazrat Inayat Khan), 6pm
Margaret will be doing a Service of Universal Worship (devised by Hazrat Inayat Khan to honour all the major religions) using chants and dances. The theme will be Peace and there will be readings from all the major religions which Margaret hopes some of you will be prepared to read (she will provide the readings unless somebody wants to find their own reading in advance - please let Margaret know). This event is open to all, but as it is in her home she would like to know approx numbers beforehand so please call 01223 365484 or email
Please bring some food to share afterwards. The service will take about an hour and a half.
NB Please arrive promptly!
Venue: at Margaret Amina's house, 17 Mariners Way, Cambridge CB4 1BN (easy parking).
Wed 20 Jan:"New Beginnings!" - Dances of Universal Peace with Ralph (Rainbow Dance), 8 -10pm
(3rd Wednesday / month) When it's dark and cold outside: what better thing is there than singing and dancing and warming your being from the inside from your heart! See you there!
Be prepared for an experience beyond words, singing and dancing in a circle. The peace dances are very much multi-faith. They are not religious in any narrow sense, but rather a spiritual (or even mystical) experience in a joyful and worshipful atmosphere, honouring various religious and spiritual traditions.
No Experience required. More Cost: £7 - concessions
VENUE: Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane / Park
Street, CB5 8BA, Cambridge city. Click here to see location in Cambridge street map
Sun 14 Feb 2010: World Sound Healing Day - Sounding an "AH" for planetary peace
Every year on the 14th February people throughout the planet join together at 12 noon to tone the heart sound "AH" for a minimum of 5 minutes with the intention of projecting love to the Earth. People all over the world create a heart wave of sound that resonates around the planet.
World Sound Healing Day was begun in 2002 by Jonathan Goldman the founder of the US Sound Healers Association. Every year more people from more countries have joined in.
Certain prophecies suggest that if 144,000 people join together for planetary healing this could have a significant effect in restoring balance to the Earth.
For more details please go to www.collegeofsoundhealing.co.uk/pages/worldsound.html (World Sound Day)
The Global Consciousness Project is an international, multi-disciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others. Their purpose is to examine how large scale events effect consciousness in the world.
They found a large shift in global consciousness after last years World Sound Healing Day. http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
(Meaningful Correlations in Random Data)
Sun 14 Feb: Valentines Circle of Simplicity - A Celebration of Love, 5-7pm
A Celebration of Love - Pure and Simple
To sing is to Romance the Soul, is to fall into Blissful Love with All That Is.
By merging with the sound current of sacred chant we remember our wholeness-
We remember that Love requires no ceremonies, it Just Is...
In this special evening of Devotional Singing in the Circle of Simplicity
We will Open our Hearts and sing to the Beloved Within and Without,
Coming Home to the Love that We Are.
We'll meditate, then chant (I use chants from a variety of spiritual traditions for all are welcome and all are one) together for a couple of hours and this time's theme will be Love and heart opening song, concluding with a relaxing sound bath. Foodshare afterwards.
Cost: by Donation.
Followed by a Veggie/Vegan Foodshare- please bring food to share.
Organised by Katie Rose - 07870 679 161 - www.therosewindow.org Venue: RSVP for the address.
Fri 26 Feb: "Thich Nhat Hanh and Vietnamese Zen" - talk by Murray Corke, 7-30pm
Murray Corke is a veterinary surgeon, conservationist and advocate for animal welfare. He studied with the FWBO for several years, before encountering the teaching and practice of Thich Nhat Hanh on a retreat in south Devon in 1992. Spending time on a number of retreats at Plum Village, Thich Nhat Hanh's monastery in south west France proved a liberating and joyful experience. He has been active in the Community of Interbeing since it was formed to promote the teaching of Thich Nhat Hanh and the practice of mindfulness in Britain. Murray received the 14 Mindfulness Trainings from Thay in 1994, and received Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh in November 2004 becoming a Dharma teacher in this tradition. (www.interbeing.org.uk)
VENUE: Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane, Cambridge city
Sat 6 March: Closing down sale Libra Aries Bookshop!
Libra Aries Bookshop on Mill Road, Cambridge will be closing down on
Saturday 6th March 2010. Libra Aries Bookshop has become a unique institution in Cambridge and is the only independent spiritual & alternative bookshop in Cambridge. Apart form the recession most certainly Amazon etc. are to blame (and you yourself!) for this. 'Use it - or loose it' has become a reality: we didn't use Libra & Aries enough - so we loose it. I am really sorry to see you go and wish Jean & Tim lots of blessings for their future! (Ralph Nimmann)
We will still be selling books by mail order, and at conferences camps &
festivals. We will keep the same phone number, email & web address, and
will still be able to receive snail mail at the shop address for the
next few months.
For more information, please see our website, phone us on 01223 412411
or email us at the usual address:
Please pass this message on to anyone who may need to see it.
Bright Blessings,
Jean & Tim.
VENUE: Libra Aries Bookshop, 9 The Broadway, Mill Road, Cambridge CB1 3AH, Tel: (01223) 412 411 www.libra-aries-books.co.uk
Sat 6 March: CIRCLE DANCING AT THE BUDDHIST CENTRE, 2.00 to 4.30 (+ every 2 weeks thereafter)
Next Sat. afternoon sessions: March 20th, April 17th (after Easter) and on the 1st &r 3rd Saturdays of the month from May.
Circle Dancing is a mind-body practice and a mindful activity that also strengths the sense of Sangha through the feelings of harmony and joy arising from moving together with music. It is a means of deepening our Buddhist practice by relating to our selves and others at many levels.
Sessions will be in the Bodywork Studio, breaking for tea and conversation.
No previous experience needed. Just come along, join in, and have fun! Sessions will be led by Angela Dyer
Venue: The Cambridge Buddhist centre, 36-38 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, CB5 8DT, phone: 01223 577 553
Thu 11 March, at 7-30pm, "Buddhism and Psychotherapy" - talk by James Low, 7-30pm
James is a psychotherapist, student of Tibetan Buddhism and a meditation teacher (www.simplybeing.co.uk)
After reading anthropology at Edinburgh in the end of the sixties, he went to India to continue his studies living at first in the company of sadhus. Later he encountered the world of Tibetan Buddhism and he studied Tibetan language, literature and philosophy at Vishva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan under the guidance of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche who also became his meditation teacher. Then for ten years James worked with Rinpoche translating many important Nyingma texts as well as doing extensive meditation retreats in the Himalayas.
He combines the philosophy of east and west, as well as the view and meditation of Dzogchen, with his experience of modern psychotherapy.
James is a consultant psychotherapist in a London NHS teaching hospital and also has a private psychotherapy practice. He has taught on many psychotherapy trainings in Britain and is the current chair of the Training Committee of the Philadelphia Association. www.philadelphia-association.co.uk He is the author of a number of books including
Being Right Here: The Mirror of Clear Meaning -
Simply Being: Texts in the Dzogchen Tradition -
and with John Crook: The Yogins of Ladakh: A Pilgrimage among the Hermits of the Buddhist Himalayas
Venue: UNITARIAN CHURCH, Emmanuel Road /corner Victoria STREET, near Drummer St. Bus Station
Sat 20 March 2010: Equinox Meditation @ 17:32 GMT
- 2nd Step in a Cycle of 12 Globally Synchronized Meditations before Dec. 2012 -
You are hereby invited to join in the second step in a series of 12 globally synchronized meditations designed to mark the celebrations of the last 12 solstices and equinoxes before December 21, 2012, an era-changing pivotal moment that has been recognized and heralded by many as the central shifting point into a new Golden Age for humanity and all Life on Earth. Read more on 'Global Events"
Fri 9 April: Ceilidh with the Cambridge Crofters Folk Band, Trumpington, 7.30 for 8pm to 11.30pm
Bar with Fair Trade, locally sourced wine beer and juices. All Welcome. This is Transition Cambridge Event for our Second Birthday but we really Welcome local people to come to this fun community orientated event.
Tickets £8 Adult, £6 concessions and £4 children under 14. Tickets available in advance from James on 07874 905594 or book on www.transitioncambridge.org/party any profits will go to Transition Cambridge to raise awareness about empowering practical community responses to peak oil and climate change.
VENUE: Trumpington Village Hall, Cambridge, CB2 9HZ
Wed 21 April: Juice Pilates - New Pilates and Yoga Studio Mill Road, 7-12 & 5-8:30
Newly Opened dedicated Reformer Pilates, Mat Pilates, Yoga and personal training studio First Class £1, sign up for pilates and yoga classes online: www.JuicePilates.com/schedule.html Yoga classes starting Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 - see more www.JuicePilates.com VENUE: Juice Pilates, 48a Mill Road, Cambridge CB1 2AS
Sat 1 May at sunrise: 1st Morris Dancing at Wandlebury 5.30am -6.15am
"May Day Celebration" at Wandlebury 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
1) 5.30am: Meet on the Picnic Field and watch the Devils Dyke Morris Men as they dance to greet the summer sun as it rises above the woodlands at Wandlebury.
FREE – donations welcome.
2) From 10AM: Meet at the Stable Rooms for Maypole dancing and craft activities. Prize for the best dressed Green Man and May Queen. All children must be accompanied by an adult, bring a picnic and enjoy the day. No need to pre-book. Cost: £5 per child (CPPF members £3)
Phone Head Ranger on 01223 243830 for more information
Venue: Wandlebury Country Park is on the A1307 (2.5km south of the Addenbrooke’s roundabout). [tel: 492 532]
See hwww.cambridgeppf.org/events/labels/wandlebury.html
Sun 2 May: Beltane Celebration Day Dry Drayton, 11-5pm (PRE-BOOKING ESSENTIAL)
Join us in celebrating this traditional Celtic "Fire Energy" Festival marking the start of Summer. We will be dancing outside in woods and field as well as indoors, including the famous "Beltaine Brand", "Hoof and Horn" and "May the Circle be Open" traditional circle dances [full instructions given!] plus shamanic music and videos.
Drumming, chanting, dancing and rituals have the power to calm, center, lift depression, release anger and stress emotions, boost the immune system, enhance health and stress-resistance. Breath and walking meditations, divination cards.
Beltane is partly about raising our fire-energy - our passion and motivation for the coming months, but also about opening the heart chakra so that we may give out and receive the gentle supportive warmth of loving relationships during the coming months. Fire energy is also about "purification" - letting go of what is no longer needed and reconnecting to our core soul qualities and soul-purpose for this lifetime. We will be engage with this theme via symbolic dance and the ritual burning of our personal secret. Facilitated by Mike Meredith.
See more @ www.sunflower-health.com/shamanicworkshops.htm Venue: Dry Drayton Village Hall - details see www.sunflower-health.com/admin/drydrayton.htm
Sun 2 May: Libra Aries Book Labyrinth and Tea Party, 1-5pm
We are pleased to invite you to join us for a one-off event: Drop in to browse our choicest books, build & walk the peace labyrinth - and have a cup of tea! See www.libra-aries-books.co.uk for more. We hope you will be able to join us! Bright Blessings, Tim & Jean.
Contact: Tim & Jean, Tel: (01223) 412 411
VENUE: the Bharat Bhavan (old Mill Road library, by the railway bridge)
Mon 3 May: Circle Dancing on the Maze (Labyrinth) at Saffron Walden, 2pm
Come and Celebrate the coming of Spring and the anticipation of Summer. Celebrate the sunshine,
the music, the movement of the dance, the friends, and the cups of tea!
Bring picnic food, a cup for your tea, dancing feet and musical instruments.
contact Corinne & Dave, tel: 01245 469158 or Email:
or just come and join us
Thu 6 May: Election Day!
Elections will take place on Thursday 6 May for 17 seats on Cambridge City Council.
See more at http://www.cambridge.gov.uk (Election results 2008 see http://www.cambridge.gov.uk.
The Prime Minister has called for a general election to be held on the same day.
(See European Election 2009, UK Results: http://news.bbc.co.uk See Ralph's opinion about the election on May 6th 2010: "Hopes for a Hung Parliament" P.S. from Ralph, a supporter and member of the Green Party: the Cambridge Greens ae now using the former Libra Aries Bookshop, 9 The Broadway, Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3AH (phone 213 049) as their campaign office, which is manned from around 8:30am to 6:30ish pm. Why don't you pop round and get a "Vote Tony Juniper / Green Party" poster or board and stick it up where you live? All signs indicate political change; would be nice to see Cambridge covered with green posters!
Fri 7 May: "Mindfulness: Today’s Fad? And is it Being Denatured?" - talk by Michael Chaskalson, 7-30pm
Michael joined the Western Buddhist Order in 1977 and was given the name Kulananda, under which name he has published several books on Buddhism and related subjects. In 1979 Michael founded Windhorse: Evolution, an entrepreneurial fair-trade company that today has sales of around £10 million and gives its profits to charity. Upon leaving the company in 1988 he helped to found the Cambridge Buddhist Centre and subsequently devoted much of his time to Buddhism – studying, meditating, teaching and writing. For several years he was a member of the Network of Western Buddhist Teachers who met regularly with the Dalai Lama to discuss matters of common concern.
In 2004 Michael took up a masters course in the clinical applications of mindfulness that is now run in the Department of Psychology at Bangor University. He now teaches a module entitled 'The Buddhist Background to Mindfulness-Based Courses' on the Bangor masters programme. Michael is currently working on a book, The Mindful Workplace, for Wiley-Blackwell.
(www.michaelchaskalson.com)
VENUE: Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane, Cambridge city
An opportunity for Buddhists and friends to come together and celebrate the
Buddha's Birth, Enlightenment, and Parinirvana.
There are very many different Buddhist groups in Cambridge with roots in different traditions and in recent years they have come together to have a shared Buddha Day celebration where each group offers something different towards the ceremony.
Everyone is welcome to this occasion, Buddhist or non-Buddhist, and whether or not you are a member of one of the different local groups.
Enquiries: Richard Potter potterrichardm[AT]googlemail.com - 01223 411018
Cambridge Buddhist Society talks are listed on our noticeboard www.cambridgebuddhistsociety.org.uk/noticeboard.html VENUE this year: Friends Meeting House, Hartington Grove, Cambridge, CB1 7UB.
Wed 26 May: The Impact of Modern Technology on Faith - Inter-Faith Discussion, 7 for 7:30pm
You are cordially invited to join this discussion meeting, open to all.
Organised by the Cambridge Inter-Faith Group (www.cam.net.uk/home/interfaith)
VENUE: Unitarian Church (not the hall!), Emmanuel Road / Victoria Street, opposite Drummer Street Bus Station, CB1 1JW - see web map)
Fri 28 May (changed date!): Bhante Bodhidhamma, 7-30pm
hikkhu Bodhidhamma is English and has been an ordained Theravada monk for over 20 years. In 1976 Bhante began meditation in the Soto Zen Tradition and after three years, he began to practice in the Theravada tradition. His main teachers have been Sayadaws U Janaka and U Pandita. In 1986, he ordained and subsequently spent eight years as a solitary at Kanduboda, the main Mahasi Centre in Sri Lanka. In the spring of 1998 he returned to Britain and has since been teaching in England and also in Ireland, Italy and Switzerland. Between 2000 and 2005 he was a teacher in residence at Gaia House and he is now the spiritual director of the Satipanya Buddhist Trust at Powys, Wales.
(www.satipanya.org.uk)
On Saturday 5th June Bhante Bodhidhamma will lead a one day course of meditation at the Friends Meeting House.
VENUE: Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane, Cambridge city
Sun 20 June: visualising the earth crust moving slightly to shut the oil spill under the gulf of Mexico, 4:50pm-5pm
Read about the Healing Prayer by Dr. Emoto for all living creatures
in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings,
"THE DRAGONS ARE AWAKENING" by Kiara Windrider
and more, including the following (all in the link above!):
Earth People... Awake!
You came from every part of this mighty Universe to help revive this dying planet.
You are those few selected ones who were given the rare privilege to assist this planet in giving birth to a new Being in the cosmic pantheon of gods: Gaia, the Immortal Child.
The Time is Now...
Awake from your sleepy state and carry out your Divine Mission on Earth.
The Time is Now...
Open your mind to the ideas poured into you through the sacred guidance of your soul.
The Time is Now...
Mon 21 June: Summer Solstice special
Mon 21 June Cambridge: Circle Dancing in Cherry Hinton Park, 6:30AM-8:30AM
We will dance from 6:30 - about 7:30AM, have a little picnic, followed by some dances to finish. We usually end before 9AM. Contact: Pam Adcock, phone 501 908.
VENUE: Cherry Hinton Park, behind the duck pond => web map with arrow on streetmap.co.uk
Mon 21 June: Global Summer Solstice Meditation: Third Step in a Cycle of 12 Globally Synchronized Meditations, 12:28 (summer time)
Focus on: "I am Peace". The following is a good attunement to the meditation:
"Before My very first Creative Fiat, All That I Am was Peace, a Peace so profound, so eternal, so thoroughly imbued with Grace that no human concept can possibly express this unfathomable state of Bliss, overflowing with still unmanifested Love and Light. That very same state of absolute Peace is eternally rooted in the very essence that I Am, and to this moment in the all encompassing Continuum of all that was, is and will ever be, I continue to be a living expression of that blissful state of graceful Peace. Acknowledging this fact in this very moment is reigniting once again the power that lies at the heart of Peace, a power so universal and so majestic that it can soothe and heal all that My Love embraces and all that My Light touches. When I Am totally allowing the Well of Peace in me to flow forth like a gushing fountain of pure energy, I am completely purified from any disturbing thought and ephemeral desire that could trouble the stillness in my consciousness that allows me to know Who I Am, and act and BE as such."
Finally you can conclude this meditation through reading the following, aloud or within the sacred sanctuary of your soul:
I am a soul. A divine spark of the Infinite that gave birth to this universe.
I remember Who I am and serve the Greater Purpose of Life
as One with All That is.
I came here with many other souls to assist in the expansion of Light on this living planet Earth.
I accept to let Love be the guiding beacon of my life and to shine Its radiance in every moment.
I am a soul and the sole purpose of my existence is to be All That I Am.
So be it.
Mon 21 June: Cambridge Global Peace Meditation Meeting, 12noon-1pm
I invite everyone interested to come into the back of our garden to share the global peace meditation around our little stone circle. Please read www.earthrainbownetwork.com/FocusArchives/June212010Meditation.htm before you come.
Please be there by 12:15 the latest. If you have any inspiration what to do, please contact Ralph beforehand.
VENUE:Ralph's home, 45 Walpole Road, CB1 3TH - phone 510442
Thu 15 July: Cambridge INFORMATION EXCHANGE, 12-30pm - 1:30pm
The Cambridge City Council - Arbury Neighbourhood Community Project
Invites you to join other voluntary, statutory and business groups, companies, and individuals.
Come along and introduce yourself, let other groups and agencies know
who you are and what you do. Find out who others are and what they do, and network. Please pass the invitation on to others who may be interested in attending.
Lunch will be provided.
Everybody will be asked to do a brief 1 minute description of their role/activity in the community.
Networking in smaller groups. Time to talk more directly to people and exchange leaflets and contact details.
I look forward to seeing you there! Please let me know if you hope to attend.
Take care and keep smiling. With rainbows and butterflies,
E: lexzecia.cayneeo[AT]cambridge.gov.uk
or phone 01223 508302 - 079202 10959
Venue: 82 Akeman St Comunity Centre, Cambridge, CB4 3HG
Wed 28 July 2010: Inter-Faith visit to the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 7.30 p.m.
You are invited by the Cambridge Inter-Faith Group (www.cam.net.uk/home/interfaith) to attend our visit to the Buddhist Centre on Wednesday 28 July 2010
to learn about Buddhism and this Centre. Meet at the Centre at 7.30 p.m.
VENUE: 38 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, CB5 8DT (next to Hewitsons Solicitors & behind the Grafton Centre)
Information about the Centre including nearby parking at
www.cambridgebuddhistcentre.com
Fri 27 Nov: " Buddhist Teachings on Happiness" by Tenzin Dechen Rochard, 730pm
Bethan and Stefan Freedman create enchantment with their particular way of balancing and blending dances. They were among the first sacred/circle dance teachers in the U.K. They teach both traditional dances and their own outstanding choreography, sometimes bringing in live music and song to add to the intimacy of the occasion. In response to the group their dances range from fiery and passionate to deeply mystical.
