
Events


Sat 14 Feb
|Botley, Oxford OX2, UK
Deepening Calm: Meeting Life with Awareness
Rev Wadigala Samitharathana St Cross College, University of Oxford
Time & Location
14 Feb 2026, 16:00 – 17:30 GMT
Botley, Oxford OX2, UK
Guests
About the event
🌿 Building on the foundations of mindfulness, this session explores how calm and awareness can be deepened and carried into our direct experience of daily life. Drawing on Buddhist teachings, we reflect on calm (samatha) and insight (vipassanā) as complementary qualities that support clarity, balance, and wise response.
🌿 Through guided mindfulness practice, gentle reflection, and quiet presence, we learn to meet thoughts, emotions, and life’s changing conditions with steadiness and compassion. Rather than withdrawing from the world, this practice invites us to engage with life as it is—moment by moment—with greater awareness and ease. Open to all, this session is suitable for both newcomers and those wishing to deepen an existing mindfulness practice.
🌿 Full venue details will be shared upon RSVP.
Thank you! 🙏


