The Buddha in the Garden: Growing our own food

• Date Wed, 11 Aug 2021  - Wed, 11 Aug 2021
• Time 7:00 PM  - 8:30 PM
• Location anywhere, VIRTUAL
• Price $0.00 - $0.00
• Organiser Metta Centre

This course embraces the principles of Buddhism and applies this to our gardens.
About this event

• The Buddha in the Garden: Growing our own food
• Using our Garden to cultivate our 5 gems image.pngfor Heart-health-wealth-mind-spiritual
• Metta Centre collaboration with Small Seeds Big Feeds
• Led by Eric Brocken, Ling Halbert and Tom Halbert
• 5 week course Wednesday nights on 14/7, 21/7, 28/7, 4/8 , 11/8 7-8.30pm
• At Metta Centre in person or via Zoom
• Cost: By Donation

 
The garden is a good teacher for us, teaching us many Buddhist principles and allowing us to develop our spiritual qualities. Gardening teaches us interdependency, impermanence, karma, learning to observe and respect nature, letting go of our need to control, teaching us patience, kindness, gentleness, calmness, mindfulness, and interconnectedness with our world and our food.
 
This course embraces the principles of Buddhism and applies this to our gardens. The course will also discuss the benefits of growing our own food and how to do it. Whether you are a beginner gardener starting out your vege garden, or want to take your gardening to a new (spiritual) level, whether you are Buddhist or not, this course is for you.
 
There are many benefits in incorporating gardening in your spiritual practice. It allows us an opportunity to reflect on the Buddha’s teachings, grow our happiness, peace of mind, relieves stress, develop our presence, take care of our planet and our health, builds community and becomes a place for our spiritual growth.
 
Metta Centre has invited the team from Small Seeds Big Feeds to present this workshop. The presenters will be presenting five topics or ‘Gems’ as they call them. These gems cover what you need to know for growing your own food. The Gems are: soil, seeds, growing, animals and harvest. Moreover, the presenters will explore the Small Seeds Big Feeds approach of the five Sets that increases our wellbeing as a whole: mindset, heartset, healthset, wealthset and spiritset.
 
Program:
 

• 14/7: Eric presents on Soil
• 21/7: Ling presents on Seeds
• 28/7: Tom presents on Growing
• 4/8: Eric presents on Animals
• 11/8: Ling presents on Harvest

 
Zoom Login details: If you would like to join our session online, just click on this link to access the session: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83506489824?pwd=cmpNQ1ljSmFVYURLWVN1dWllYUN1dz09
Meeting ID: 835 0648 9824| Passcode: 718905

 

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