Sunday, 9th August, 8pm AEST
Happening

Dear COS Family.

You are warmly invited to join Jan, Tim and Adam for another wonderful Sunday 'Happening'!

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A Happening is basically an 'open mike'. An opportunity to introduce yourself to the group- particularly if you are new, and to share your joys and sorrows in the practice.

​The facilitators will open and offer their sharings, followed by the rest of the Sangha in a joyful group sharing. This is a wonderful time for anyone who is new to introduce themselves, or perhaps if you havent shared much in the past... all are wlecome 

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You might like to simply introduce yourself and how you came to be at this sangha. This is welcome whether it is your first and hundredth (or indeed thousandth) attendance.

You may like to speak about your favourite practice, share a song, poem, reading or story. Something that inspires you. You may enjoy providing an open listening space for others. All welcome

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This Sunday, we invite you to join us as we explore what is happening in the Sangha by exploring what has happened. Jan and Tim will track back through the years and themes of Compassionate Ocean Sangha. Along the way, inviting friends that have joined in the different eras to share with us; How you came to join the Sangha and How has been part of the Sangha been useful in your 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 .