Wednesday Daytime Dharma Drop-in Class

Buddhism drop-in, all welcome any week
11.45am-12.45pm | by donation (suggested £6)
Stick around for lunchtime meditation, come early for volunteering

You can read Buddhist books and listen to talks on YouTube, but things will open up much more fully when studying Buddhism alongside others.

New Series: The Spiral Path

The Buddha’s teaching of the stages of the path from here to enlightenment.

17 December: the ancient path to the ancient city – The Buddha’s Middle Way

24 December: no class.

31 December: (Ksantikara) two kinds of conditionality and the spiral path

7 January 2026: Spiral 1 – in dependence on frustration (duhkha) arises confidence (shraddha)

14 January: 2 – in dependence on confidence arises joy (pramodya)

21 January: 3 – in dependence joy on arises rapture/interest (prti)

28 January: 4 – in dependence rapture on arises calm (prashrabdhi)

4 February: 5 – in dependence on calm arises bliss (sukha)

11 February: 6 – in dependence on bliss arises samadhi

18 February: 7 – in dependence on samadhi arises knowledge and vision (jnanadarsha)

25 February: 8 – in dependence knowledge and vision on arises disenchantment (nirveda)

4 March: 9, 10 – in dependence on disenchantment arises nonattachment (vairagya); in dependence on nonattachment arises freedom (vimukti)

11 March: 11 – in dependence on freedom on arises knowledge (of the destruction of the poisons) (jnana)

18 March: 12 – review of the spiral path.

25 March: new series starts, The Mandala

See Sangharakshita, What Is the Dharma, for details.

Led by Ratnaprabha & Guhyasakhi