Sunday, 2nd August, 8pm AEST
Deep Relaxation

Welcome our lovely COS family! Please join Tim and Ana Maria for a beautiful session of Deep Relaxation to nourish body and mind.

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In Plum Village centers guided lying-down relaxations of 30 minutes or more are offered in the meditation halls. We are guided to follow our breathing and relax our muscles, allowing our body to truly rest.

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"We think that when we are not doing anything we are wasting our time, that is not true. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be, to be what? to be alive, to be peace, to be joy, to be loving. And that is what the world needs the most. So we train ourself in order to be. And if you know the art of being peace, of being solid, then you have the ground for every action… because the ground for action is to be. And the quality of being determines the quality of doing. Action must be based on non-action."
Thich Nhat Hanh

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In the Buddhist tradition we speak of “mindfulness of the body in the body” (kāyānupassanā). It means we become aware of the body from within the body, through our felt experience of the body.

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Relaxation brings peace, happiness and creativity. It is possible to incorporate it into our daily life...

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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 .