Saturday, 2nd May, 8pm AEDT 
Saturday Sangha

Dear COS Family.
You are warmly invited to join Rose, Dipika and Sarah for another lovely Saturday Sangha.

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After an opening and introduction from the facilitators, there is usually a whole sangha sharing plus a guided meditation to finish if there is time.

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The question to reflect upon for this session, is:
The emptiness of no purity, no defilement, no increasing no decreasing: How do you experience this in relation to your own health and mortality? How does your practice support you in those times we confront our physical vulnerability and impermanence?

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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
Be noble, you are made of stars.