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WCF Questionnaire - Retreats

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A questionnaire to help us plan future retreat programmes to suit you.

Please respond promptly, as we will be analysing the results about two weeks after you receive this newsletter.

It is two years since we restarted residential retreats following the ending of pandemic restrictions, and we are noticing that retreat booking numbers are lower than pre-pandemic. Clearly one factor may be…

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Categories: 2024 , WCF News

Compassion in Crisis: Buddhist Skilful Means

Jake Lyne

A talk by Jake Lyne on ecodharma, now available on youTube

This 23 minute talk opens with a quote from William Shatner of Star Trek fame, the oldest person to go into space, who was profoundly shocked by the contrast between the beauty of earth from space and his understanding that life is in peril from climate change and loss of biodiversity.

Using video clips to illustrate the talk, Jake…

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Categories: 2024 , WCF News

Newsletter 50

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Newsletter 50 is now published and includes various items.

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Categories: 2024 , WCF News

Introduction to Meditation, Buddhism and Chan (online)

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Western Chan Fellowship is rerunning the free online course, ‘Introduction to Meditation, Buddhism and Chan’. This consists of four weekly online 90-minute sessions led by two experienced Western Chan Fellowship group leaders, David Valentine-Hagart and Guy Roberts. It is geared towards newcomers to the WCF, but those already engaged with the WCF and interested in finding out more about the…

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Categories: 2024 , WCF News

New Chan Forum Issues 65 and 66

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New Chan Forum issues 65 and 66 are now available from the New Chan Forum archive

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Categories: 2024 , WCF News

Newsletter 49

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Categories: 2024 , WCF News

Newsletter 48

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Retreat fees frozen for 2024. Read the details on our Fees page.

Newsletter 48 is now published and includes our retreat programme right through to August 2024.

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Categories: 2023 , WCF News

New Chan Forum Issue 64

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New Chan Forum issue 64 is now available for download.

Visit the New Chan Forum 64 page.

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Categories: 2023 , WCF News

New Chan Forum issue 63

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New Chan Forum issue 63 is now available for download.

Visit the New Chan Forum 63 page.

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Categories: 2023 , WCF News

Keeping in contact during lockdown

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Though our face to face events are all cancelled, WCF members and friends are keeping in contact and supporting each other by various other means. Here are some options available to you.

Connected Practice, mutually supported home practice, has launched earlier than scheduled to meet this need. Read about it and join in: w-c-f.org/Q487-401

The WCF has a discussion emailing list / forum…

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Categories: 2020 , WCF News

Violence in Myanmar

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The European Buddhist Union (EBU) has issued a statement condemning the recent and ongoing violence in Myanmar. The Western Chan Fellowship CIO is a member of EBU and joins in that statement and commends it to our readers.

A large group of Buddhist teachers in USA have issued a similar statement and are encouraging support for…

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Categories: 2017 , WCF News

Western Chan Fellowship Organisational Changes

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From 1st July 2017 Western Chan Fellowship, registered charity 1068637, is winding down its operations and passing its activities and assets to a new charity with a similar name and objects, Western Chan Fellowship CIO, registered charity number 1166162. If you have an outstanding retreat booking with Western Chan Fellowship then it has been transferred automatically to Western Chan Fellowship…

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Categories: 2017 , WCF News

Early Buddhism and the Four Great Vows, Stephen Batchelor

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Now available for viewing on the WCF YouTube channel

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Categories: 2017 , WCF News

WCF Organisational Changes

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On 28th January 2017 at an EGM of the Western Chan Fellowship the members present voted unanimously to transfer the assets and activities of Western Chan Fellowship (registered charity no. 1068637) to ‘Western Chan Fellowship Charitable Incorporated Organisation’ (registered charity no. 1166162).

‘Western Chan Fellowship CIO’ as it will be known (‘WCF CIO’ in this message’), will operate in very…

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Categories: 2017 , WCF News

Calendar December 2016

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It was a fine winter’s day and I was on a work trip, travelling from the Ogmore Valley over the tops of the hills and down towards the Rhondda Valley. As I came over the top, there on the side of the road, by a small parking space, were some flowers left in shrine-like arrangement. They overlooked the village of Cwmparc. I stopped my car and got out. The wind was keen and cold. I thought the…

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Categories: 2016 , WCF News

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