Sunday 6 April 2025
Triratna Day: Sangharakshita’s Four Gifts & Auction of Delights
We’ll be celebrating the founding of Triratna with a day of celebration. In the morning we’ll be evoking and exploring Sangharakshita’s poem; a meditation on gifts, opportunities, sharing and communication. In the afternoon we’ll be putting that into practice through the Auction of Delights as part of the Fundraising Project. The day will conclude with a celebratory puja.
I come to you with four gifts.
The first gift is a lotus-flower.
Do you understand?
My second gift is a golden net.
Can you recognize it?
My third gift is a shepherds’ round-dance.
Do your feet know how to dance?
My fourth gift is a garden planted in a wilderness.
Could you work there?
I come to you with four gifts.
Dare you accept them?
— Sangharakshita ‘Four Gifts’
You’re welcome to join for part of the day
Programme:
9.45 doors open
10 meditation (optional)
11 talk and groups on the four gifts.
1 lunch – please bring vegatarian/ vegan food to share
Please bring lunch to share: something like a pot of dahl, soup, curry, chilli, sides, salad, potatoes/rice, fruit or sweet treats
2 Auction of Delights as part of the fundraising ‘polishing the jewel’ project
4 seven-fold puja