Sunday, 5th July, 8pm AEST
Tea Meditation

Welcome our lovely COS family! Please join Ruth, Tim and Adam for a beautiful Tea Meditation.

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Thay spoke often of mindfulness of drinking tea and of contemplation of the cloud in the tea. Please bring your tea or beverage of choice to the session. Looking forward to drinking our tea together.

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We will begin by hearing some reflections on drinking tea with our teacher, then we will drink our tea together, in silence. To conclude, we will be invited to share with the whole Sangha, our experience of our drinking tea together in silence.

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“If we choose to drink a cup of tea in mindfulness, the pleasure of drinking tea will more than double because we are truly there and the tea is also truly there.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

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Drinking Tea - a beautiful Gatha by Thich Nhat Hanh
This cup of tea in my two hands, mindfulness held perfectly.
My mind and body dwell in the very here and now.

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Our theme for July 2026 is:
The Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore
Understanding the Sutra: verse 5
The Eighteen Realms of Phenomena
Which are the six Sense Organs
Six Sense Objects
And six Sense Consciousnesses
Are also not separate self-entities.

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In the sutras we learn that everything is found within the eighteen realms of elements composed of the six sense organs, the six sense objects, and the six sense consciousnesses. … But thanks to modern science, we know that the universe is not just what we perceive with our five senses. We now know that all of our senses are quite limited

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So, biology and physics help us to remove our dualistic view of mind and matter, psyche and soma, so that we are able to see the reciprocal and interbeing connection of body and mind. … Whenever we look up at the sky and see the moon, the stars and the galaxies, we have to practice to see that these things are not independent of consciousness. Everything in the cosmos has consciousness in it