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 – browse the catalogue here.. see if anything takes your fancy! 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