News from Dragon Bell
Hello,
We have the sangha outing happening this coming Saturday, here’s a reminder of the details;
You are invited to join a social sangha gathering on Saturday 29th June. This will replace the scheduled meditation morning that was posted on the website calendar.
We will be meeting in Exmouth at 11.30am, the gathering point will be the roundabout at Orcombe Point Exmouth, there is a coffee kiosk there and usually plenty of places to park along the nearby front. Please bring a packed lunch for yourself and maybe something good to share around.
Hopefully the weather will be supportive and we will be able to walk along the famous beach, have a coffee and eat our lunch somewhere. Please bring as many dogs as possible, some of us are suffering from dog deprivation. Seaside cats are also welcome.
The end of June will be close to the anniversary of Rev. Myfanwy’s death. So it is somewhat with her in mind that we’ll be coming together. We won’t be holding a memorial ceremony this year. 2025 will be the fifth anniversary of her death and we’ll hold a memorial close to the 2nd July next year.
I’ll be away for a couple of weeks from Monday 1st July, visiting parents and Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey (including our AGM with the trustees who live there). So there will be a pause in temple activities.
The calendar on the website has been updated, there are some events scheduled for late July and August has a normal sort of number of things going on.
At the end of May beginning of June, we had our fourth residential retreat at Eden Rise retreat barns. As far as I am concerned it was a joy to do, and as far as I can tell, the group as a whole appreciated it. Increasingly, such times make clear what I am living for and that is a large aspect of what this kind of retreat is about, though that’s often not obvious, especially in our early years of practice. I think they are deeply significant for our little temple and I am very glad that we can hold these short sesshins. Two retreats have had their deposits paid for spring and winter 2025, I’ll let everyone know the dates in a later newsletter.
Here’s the latest article I wrote, since the last newsletter, if you are interested: Meditation – true form of the self – Dragon Bell Temple
Hope to see you soon, in the meantime, have a good summer,
In gassho
Willard