Sydney Gnostic Centre Update

Recently we have trialled a new look to our main practice room, inspired by the picture above "The Knight of the Holy Grail" by Frederick J Waugh, 1912.

We finally settled on the arrangement below.

And we have also set up a book shelf in the kitchen area which has our "In the Loop" notice board on top

We also established a book shelf in the Gnostic Cafe and we set up a great gas heater for the cooler months.

Here we have Cheryl, Jiri and Harry reading away whilst the earlier courses are on.

Next, we installed some plastic weatherproof sheeting (which someone kindly donated to us) on top of the pergola to ensure a dry passage between the main buidling and the cafe.

Richard and Colm applied their expertise to acomplish this task. Richard performed some acrobatics to remind us he still hasn't lost his skill which he showed us last year when painting the side of the building. Here he is calmly keeping perfect balance on the top step of the ladder, no easy feat!

Colm drills one in

Rich loads the drill with another screw whilst balancing on the ladder like a professional

and he does not miss his mark

Here they are amongst the tree tops. That's a huge Avocado tree behind Colm which overgrows the garage roof.

Unfortunately the fruit never comes out any good, it is always too hard.

Colm does some precision drilling.

Another new feature is our new A frame

Last Saturday we had a half day of practices and a barbeque lunch. All voluntary donations received on the day went to help the International Admin fund. We started off with two mantra practices of about 20 minutes each. 1st was Om Mani Padme Hum and then we did Om.

Lunch was next. Below, Harry cooks up a storm after Joel got it all started for us.

Left to right: Joel, Chery,l Jiri and Colm (slightly off camera) wait patiently for the cooked lunch to be ready.

and by the way, Jiri says "Hello!", meanwhile Joel and Shane guard the fruit bowls

lunch is ready, come and get it

After lunch we watched some of Belzebuub's videos of his Talks in Quebec (http://www.belzebuub.com/movies#tabs-vidtab-9)

Left to right: Priscilla, Cheryl, Colm, Shane, Joel, Jiri, Harry, and David.

First we watched "Why be in the Present Moment" - http://www.belzebuub.com/node/295

A little later we watched "Towards Inner Peace" - http://www.belzebuub.com/node/368

Everybody got a lot out of them and it was like having Belzebuub in the room with us.

We also did a few more practice sessions in which we focused on some meditation techniques.

It was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

That's all for now from Sydney.