Sunday, 3rd May, 8pm AEST
Book Club

Dear Friends, please join Liz, Ik Lin and Adam for another beautiful Book Club session.

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We will hear from Liz from: "What Would the Buddha Say? 1501 Right Speech Teachings for Communicating Mindfully" by Barbara Ann Kipfer

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Following Liz, we will hear from Ik Lin: "Inside the Now: Meditations on Time", Thich Nhat Hanh (2015)

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Our theme for May 2026 is:
The Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore

Understanding the Sutra: verse 3, part 2
Listen Shariputra
All Phenomena bear the mark of Emptiness
Their true nature is the nature of
no Birth, no Death
no Being, no Nonbeing
no Defilement, no Purity
no Increasing, no decreasing

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Thay reminds us that we don’t have to die to become dust. We are already dust. We contain the whole cosmos.

We can be arrogant when we think that we understand a speck of dust, just as we think we understand a human being. When we can see the no increasing, no decreasing nature of reality you will have no more fear, no more complexes (p67).

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He gives us the old proverb:
Be humble, you are made of dust