On the first and third Thursdays of the month, 7.30pm – 9.00pm
On the second and fourth Thursdays of the month, 10.30am – 12 midday
(NB. No meetings on any fifth Thursday.)
The Zoom link for all these meetings is :
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85775868333?pwd=LEuyKnfbRJORbqsuzkhsonHui4ttwA.1
Meeting ID: 857 7586 8333
Passcode: 970614
Kiitsu Kyōkai (帰一教會) literally means, “Unity Fellowship” or “Gathering”, and this relatively new, internationally supported project which started in February 2024 sprang from out of the Cambridge Unitarian community’s exploration of the possibilities for creating a creative, inquiring, free and liberative religion/spirituality (jiyū shūkyō) suitable for our modern age that draws on the practices and insights of the Japanese “Yuniterian” (sic) tradition, especially as they were presented and developed by the important twentieth-century advocate of jiyū shūkyō, educator and interfaith pioneer, Imaoka Shin’ichirō-sensei (1881-1988).
After a brief informal welcome, our meetings begin with twenty minutes of Seiza Meditation (instruction is always provided for first-time attenders) and this is followed by a short presentation from one of those attending on some aspect of jiyū shūkyō they have noticed in their own life. The remainder of the meeting consists of a shared, open and free flowing conversation on the general subject of the day. You can gain a sense of what a meeting is like from the following “order of service”.
For more information on the purpose of Imaoka-sensei’s own Kiitsu Kyōkai and the basic ideas that informed it, please click on the following link:
Kiitsu Kyōkai
<https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/p/kiitsu-kyokai.html>
And it may help first-time attenders to know that the reason for practising Seiza Meditation (Quiet Sitting) in these meetings rather than another form of meditation is that this was the preferred practice of both Imaoka-sensei and the wider Japanese Yuniterian movement. For more information about Seiza Meditation (Quiet Sitting) please click on the following link:
Seiza Meditation (Quiet Sitting)
<https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/p/seiza-meditation.html>
Andrew James Brown
Minister
Cambridge Unitarian Church
Emmanuel Road
Cambridge
CB1 1JW
07305 089 951 (Church Office)
07477 462 110 (Mobile)
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Podcast—Making Footprints Not Blueprints <https://footprints.buzzsprout.com>
Free Religion <https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/p/free-religion.html>
Kiitsu Kyōkai <https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/p/kiitsu-kyokai.html>
Seiza Meditation (Quiet Sitting) <https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/p/seiza-meditation.html>