Saturday, 28th March, 8pm AEDT 
Dharma Talk

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Dear COS Family.

You are warmly invited to join Liz and Ling for a Dharma Talk - a video suggested by Thay Phap HaiWhy This Talk?Brother Phap Vu’s Embracing and Looking Deeply at Suffering brings the March themes vividly to life by showing us — in the spirit of Avalokiteshvara — that it is only through turning toward our suffering with courageous, embodied attention, rather than intellectual understanding alone, that the insight of emptiness and interbeing can genuinely free us from ill-being.

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Our theme for March is "The Insight That Brings Us To The Other Shore"
Understanding the Sutra: verses 1 and 2:
Avalokiteshvara, while practicing deeply with
the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore,
suddenly discovered that all of the five Skandas are equally empty
and with this realization he overcame all ill-being.
Listen Shariputra
This Body itself is Emptiness
And Emptiness itself is this Body
This Body is not other than Emptiness,
And Emptiness is not other than this Body.
The same is true of Feelings,
Perceptions, Mental Formations
And Consciousness.
What is the insight that brings us to the Other Shore?
The insight is when we understand that everything is empty of a separate self. Thus we can’t describe anything as permanent, pure or having a self. And they also cannot be characterized as being impermanent, impure or lacking a self. This teaching is also found in the Diamond Sutra.