We are delighted to welcome back Lipeng Lim to guide this Sunday Check In session. Continuing on from last week, Lipeng will be speaking on part 2 "Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Mind" and has asked us to consider the following questions:

1. Have you tried to change any of your eating habits?  What challenges did you face along the way?
2.   How can we bring more mindfulness into our daily meals to deepen our sense of gratitude?  Why do you think this matters in today's world?  

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Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Mind Part 2

This Sunday, we are honoured to have Venerable Miao Guang join us online to share a powerful story from the Bodhi Light Tales by Venerable Master Hsing Yun. The story of the Four Wives invites us to reflect deeply on what truly accompanies us beyond this life.

In preparation, we warmly invite you to take a few quiet moments to reflect on the following questions:

1. Among the "four wives" in your life—body, wealth, relationships, and mind—which one do you care for most, and which one do you tend to neglect? Why?

2. What small steps can you take to nurture your mind and align it with goodness, knowing it is your most faithful companion?

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Bodhi Light Tales - The Four Wives

This Sunday, we are honoured to gather once again for our Communities of Practice Check-in. This time, Venerable Miao Guang will share a meaningful story from the Bodhi Light Tales by Venerable Master Hsing Yun – Steps of Life.

In preparation, we warmly invite you to take a few quiet moments to reflect on the following questions:

1. What "backpacks" are you currently carrying in life? How do you decide what to hold onto and what to let go of?

2. Looking back, is there a decision you would approach differently today, after understanding the importance of weighing the pros and cons more mindfully?


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Bodhi Light Tales - Steps of Life

This Sunday, we are honoured to gather once again for our Communities of Practice Check-in. We are delighted to have Venerable Zhi Sheng facilitating this week's session. Venerable Zhi Sheng will be sharing a meaningful story from Bodhi Light Tales by Venerable Master Hsing Yun — The Bubble Necklace. Through this story, we are invited to reflect on how we sometimes become attached to fleeting things, mistaking them for lasting happiness.

In preparation, we warmly invite you to take a few quiet moments to reflect on the following questions:

1. Have you ever chased after something that seemed important at the time, but later realised it could never bring true happiness? What did you learn from that experience?

2. How can we cultivate the wisdom to let go of attachments in daily life, especially when desires or expectations arise so naturally in us?

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Bodhi Light Tales - The Bubble Necklace

This Sunday, we are grateful for another opportunity to gather for our Communities of Practice Check-in. Venerable Miao Guang will be sharing a thoughtful story from the Bodhi Light Tales by Venerable Master Hsing Yun – The Third Floor.

In preparation for our discussion, we warmly invite you to reflect on the following questions:
1. Have you experienced times when rushing toward a goal without a strong foundation led to challenges? What insights did you gain?

2. How might we cultivate persistence and an understanding of causes and conditions in our daily lives?

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Bodhi Light Tales - The Third Floor

This Sunday marks the final session of our June Bodhi Light Tales sharing series, and we are deeply grateful for the time we've spent together in reflection and spiritual friendship.

For this week's session, Venerable Miao Guang will be sharing a powerful story titled "Heavy Bag" from Bodhi Light Tales by Venerable Master Hsing Yun. This story invites us to reflect on how determination and aspiration can transform the way we carry life's burdens.

In preparation for our discussion, we warmly invite you to ponder the following questions:

1. Have you ever forgotten your discomfort because you were focused on a clear goal? What helped you keep going?

2. What "heavy bag" are you carrying in life right now? How might a strong aspiration help lighten that load?

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Bodhi Light Tales - Heavy Bag

We are delighted to welcome back Venerable Juewei to guide us through an 8 week series on "Wisdom" based on her recent research and encyclopedia entry.  Tomorrow she will ask us to consider "What If the Four Noble Truths are not problems to solve, but patterns to witness?" Suffering. Craving. Cessation. Path. But what if these aren't tasks to complete, but cycles to observe with care? What happens when we stop treating the First Noble Truth like a glitch—and start honouring it like a teacher? 

In preparation for our discussion, we warmly invite you to reflect on the following questions:
1. How do you get a goose out of a glass bottle without breaking the bottle or harming the goose? 
2. What may be trapping you in a “glass bottle” today? 

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What if the Four Noble Truths are not problems to solve, but patterns to witness?

We are delighted to have Venerable Juewei to guide us through an 8 week series on "Wisdom" based on her recent research and encyclopedia entry.  She will ask us to consider "“Are we really suffering or unwilling to listen to the messenger?” In a world trained to run from discomfort, Buddhist wisdom offers a radical invitation: don’t shoot the messenger. Suffering is a visitor with vital messages, shaped by personal wounds and systemic entanglements. Our experiences may invite us into a deeper, more relational way of meeting suffering. What if we could listen with curiosity instead of reacting with control?

In preparation for our discussion, we warmly invite you to reflect on the following questions:

1. What might my suffering be trying to teach me about myself, and about the systems I’m entangled in? Note that this question is not about how to get rid of suffering but what it wants me to hear. 

2. Can I trace the thread of a recent discomfort, such as fear, anxiety, shame, back to its systemic roots? Again, it is not about what may be wrong with me, but the wider conditions that this dis-ease carries. 

Are we really suffering or unwilling to listen to the messenger?

We are coming to the close of Venerable Juewei's first month in the Wisdom series. To round out the month, we are delighted to have Venerable guide us in a meditation together which will be at least a 30 minute session. The session will ask us to contemplate:

 "Is the Noble Eightfold Path a map or a mirror?"

Most people approach the Eightfold Path as a list of “right” things to strive for. But in this meditation session, we flip that. We slow down. We inhabit the path as subtle reflections of how we are already moving, choosing, relating. 

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Is the Noble Eightfold Path a map or a mirror?

Venerable Juewei will be commencing the second month in the Wisdom series. Venerable will guide us in exploring:

 “What If the Arhat Isn’t perfect but fully human?” 

We imagine awakening as transcendence, escape, flawlessness. But what if it’s the radical act of being this human, with nothing left to fix or flee? Could liberation be the full embrace of the ordinary? 

The questions she would like us to contemplate are:

1. What part of you hesitates at the idea of perfection? What part longs for it? Can we stay with that tension? 

2. Is the goal of practice more about personal liberation, or collective harmony? Or can those two be separated? 

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What if the Arhat isn't perfect but fully human?

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