Sunday, 27th September, 8pm AEST
Book Club

Welcome our lovely COS family! Please join Jan and Ling for another interesting and enjoyable Book Club evening/day/morning.

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We hope you can join us 

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Our theme for September 2026 is:
The Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore
Verse 7:
Ill-being, the causes of Ill-being, the end of ill-being, the Path
Insight and attainment
Are also not separate self-entities

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Thich Nhat Hanh teaches the Four Noble Truths as practical methods to transform suffering into peace by recognizing ill-being, looking at its roots, realizing well-being, and walking the mindful path.

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After his enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, the Buddha sat for some days in his inner liberation, which he called a state of nirvana. As Thich Nhat Hanh explains, “Nirvana means extinction—first of all, the extinction of all concepts and notions.

Our concepts about things prevent us from really touching them.” For the Buddha, the ability to see reality as it really is, free of all concepts that distort it, was also the extinction of suffering.
(Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching)