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Friday full moon puja

Buddhist devotional practice based on Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara

Puja is about the cultivation and expansion of positive emotions including shraddha (faith-confidence). It is a practice which helps us crawl in behind the limited, habitual, fixed self and for a time experience ourselves as much more expanded and limitless.

Sangharakshita describes shraddha as a lifting up of the heart to something higher, touching something higher, experiencing, even if only for a moment, something higher. When we do this with one another it deepens the development of true community so that Sangha can indeed become a real and abiding refuge.

We pick the Friday night closest to the actual full moon.

On this evening we will also be celebrating Shraddhavira who is retiring from volunteering at the ABC after many years of service. You are very welcome to rejoice in Shraddhavira's merits on the night and join us for tea and cake following the puja.

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