Getting up to date

My first post on my new blog and I should use it to get up to date on where I am now.

I am currently teaching two meditation classes. One at Essex University on a Monday from 12 noon to 1pm and one at the Colchester Buddhist Centre from 1pm to 2pm. The one at the Buddhist Centre I share with Dave and we roughly lead half of them each.

I have been involved with both of these classes since around October 2007.

I have now been confirmed, as of a couple of weeks ago, as the new Buddhist Chaplin at Essex University, which currently involves just running this one class, and also being available to University students, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist to help them with Buddhist related matters. I am also on the committee of the Multi-Faith Chaplaincy Centre at the University, where I hold the class. The Committee meets three times a year, once each term, and administers the MFCC.

I hope to expand the work that I do at the University and have this week booked another time slot at the Chaplaincy Centre for a Friday from 7pm to 9pm, starting in the new academic year. I plan to hold a second meditation class for those that cannot get to the Monday lunchtime one and also to perform a Buddhist Sevenfold Puja. I hope that this will encourage the Buddhist students to come together and help me to identify who it is that I am representing at the University.

The Friday lunchtime classes at the Buddhist Centre are a delight. There is always a very special atmosphere in the shrine room at the Centre and I always leave glowing and smiling from cheek to cheek.