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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

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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.

• http://europeanbuddhism.org/news/ebu-condemns-violence-in-myanmar/

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

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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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…

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…

I had walked from Trehebert to Treorchy on a grey wet day. As I went over a railway bridge I saw a discarded loaf of sliced bread lying in the gutter, it's open and the slices are lying there soaking up the dirty water from the rain. You can just make it out, in the middle, toward the bottom of the image. I become interested in the discarded food and the people walking past it and I take some…

We were visiting Hong Kong and we went to the Po Lin Monastery on Lantau island. The monastery sits on a hill overlooking the island. There is a Buddha on top of the hill known as Tian Tan Buddha, whose hands are in the Abhaya Mudra, which symbolises protection, peace and the dispelling of fears. The Buddha is 113 feet tall and we climbed the 286 steps to reach the base around which there are…