Saturday, 22nd August, 8pm AEST 
Saturday Sangha Whole Group Sharing

Dear COS Family.

You are warmly invited to join Lena, Julie and Adam for another lovely Saturday Sangha.

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Usually on a Saturday Whole Group Sharing session, the facillitator will open the meeting, share a reflection of their own, followed by whole group sharings and concluding with a meditation. There is often a question to reflect upon and this can be disclosed before the event, giving the sangha time to digest and reflect upon it. More information may be shared about this before the date.

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There will be a Reading: The Other Shore pp88 ‘Seeing Formations As They Really Are’ and ‘The 5 Links’

Following the reading, there will be the question for the whole sangha group sharing to discuss: "Share the conditions that led to the arising of a thought, feeling or action that triggered suffering or a joy in you, and the conditions that led to its cessation?"

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Our theme for August 2026 is:
The Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore
Understanding the Sutra: Verse 6:
The Twelve Links of Interdependent Arising
And their Extinction
Are also not separate self-entities

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Once again we meet Thay making corrections to known teachings. He presented his re-translation of the Sutra in 2014 but his commentary in his book,

 

The Other Shore, wasn’t published until around 2017 In that interim he has re-thought the teachings of the Eighteen Realms of Phenomena because he has proposed Five Links to replace the Twelve and states that because they are not separate self-entities if there is the extinction of one link there is the extinction of all .