We had a rather special evening at the Stockport Buddhist Group on Thursday.  Shubhanita joined us from the Manchester Centre.  She is one of the two Manchester Mitra Convenors and a keen advocate of the support the Manchester Centre can offer the North West Groups.

Shubanaita commenced the evening with a short talk around her role and a shout out for the North West Big Sangha Retreat 24th to the 27th April at Adhisthana.   There was time for a few questions before we commenced our metta mini series with a short talk by Paranayaka.  We then invited Amitabha back from last week’s five Buddha mandala to join us in an Amitabha / metta visualisation.

After the break Shubhanita led us in a short metta bhavana and then the Gratitude Puja with the reading by Mary from the Karaniya metta sutta.