Metta Festival: Celebrating 10 years of Metta
Event Details
Location: Burwood Park Pavillion
Cost: Free (donations welcome)
This year’s Metta Festival will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Metta Centre, with Buddhist monastics from various traditions flying in from all around the world to attend this special event. We will start the morning with a Mahadana of alms offering of rice to monastics (pindapata), followed by a picnic lunch. The day will be filled with Buddhist performances, guided meditation, group reflections, opportunities to meet Buddhist monks, nuns and practitioners, and stalls. This is a rare opportunity for the Fourfold Sangha from all major Buddhist traditions to be in attendance together at the same event, and for us to meet with esteemed Buddhist monastics.
Program
10am Opening
10.15 Mahadana alms giving (pindapata)
11am Lunch at the pavilion for monastics and picnic lawn for everyone else. (After their meal, monastics are welcome to receive guests, observe the performances, or rest in the internal pavilion)
11.30 Buddhist-related performances representing various traditions and temples
2pm – Program resumes
2.10 – Congratulatory Speeches
2.30 – Guided Metta Meditation
3.00 – Group sharing about their Buddhist practice, and reflections on 10 years of Metta Centre (monastics are welcome to join the groups)
4.30 – Closing
Get Involved in this meritorious event
Be a part of this special event by joining our volunteer teams on WhatsApp
Upload a 10-30sec video about what Metta Centre means to you (we love stories!) in landscape and high res so we can compile to create our anniversary video. Upload to here
Write a message for our anniversary booklet (100 words or less) and email to contact@mettacentre.com with your full name and city (bonus if you can send a photo of you at our events)
Make a donation to help with the costs of the event
Tell your friends and let’s make this a joyous event together!