Sunday, 23rd August, 8pm AEST
Book Club

Welcome our lovely COS family! Please join Jan, Dipika and Ling for another interesting and nourishing Book Club.

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We would like to focus on ‘other’ reading matter and other ways of reading (eg podcasts)
A question to consider might be: "How has reading/listening helped develop your understanding and compassion for yourself and others?"

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We hope you can join us and look forward to hearing everyone's insights :-)

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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 .