Sunday, 19th July, 8pm AEST
Book Club

Welcome our lovely COS family! Please join Jenny, Ik Lin and Adam for another interesting and nourishing Book Club.

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We will begin with a short silent sit and a welcome from Jenny.
Ik Lin will then introduce the session and share her book, Sister Dang Nghiem’s ‘Healing’, and Jenny will her choice, Rilke’s poetry. This will be followed by whole Sangha sharings and a Guided meditation if there's time, from Ik Lin.

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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