Saturday, 15th August, 8pm AEST 
Saturday Sangha Whole Group Sharing

Dear COS Family.
You are warmly invited to join Daya, Maggie and Eve-Maria for another lovely Saturday Sangha.

 

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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The questions for the whole group sharing are:  Do you have a fear of death? What practices help you avoid being caught in the notion of birth and death." 

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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 .