Saturday,11th July, 8pm AEST 
Saturday Dharma Talk and Sharing

Dear COS Family.

You are warmly invited to join Jenny, Lena and Ana Maria for another lovely Saturday Sangha.

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In his book, The Art of Living, Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us that we have many bodies. The body we will learn more about iduring this session, is our Community, or Sangha, Body.

You are invited you to share your experience of being in a Sangha. Consider: How has it changed you? How have you been supported (or not)? What challenges have arisen for you and what have you learned about yourself?

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Please join us for a Dharma Talk and then a whole Sangha sharing on being in a Sangha.

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We hope you can join us 

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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