Heart Insight - Brisbane Meditation Group

Thursdays, 6:15pm in-person
Sundays, 6pm online

There are two opportunities per week to join the Heart Insight Group. On Thursday evenings in-person at Mindful Psychology in Woollongabba and Sunday evenings online. On the fourth Sunday each month the online group starts at 7pm for a discussion of a sutta from the Pali Canon. Please sign up to the mailing list or visit the HI facebook group for the Zoom login details.
Details of the various meeting are in the Heart Insight calendar.

Developing a meditation practice is so much easier with the support of a group. Every Thursday and Sunday evenings join us as we explore the liberating insights and practices taught by the Buddha.

Cost is by donation. The teachings are considered beyond a monetary value so instead the tradition of dana (generosity) is practiced. Those that wish to support the continuation of the group and the teacher’s offerings, can do so via donation boxes on the night.

Saturday Silent Retreat

The Heart Insight Meditation group is delighted to advise that we are running full days of silent meditation on the first Saturday of each month (except January), at the Quaker Meeting House, 10 Hampson Street, Kelvin Grove.

More details: Heart Insight Saturday Retreat info, and program.

Please see the Heart Insight calendar for dates.

Find us

On Thursday evenings at 6:15pm we meet at Mindful Psychology in Woollongabba. There is off-street parking. Enter through the main entrance at the front of the building and go up the stairs on the left. The sitting room is on the first floor. We follow the current Qld Health Covid-19 requirements.

5/6 Qualtrough St, Woollongabba
heart.insight.group@gmail.com
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Upcoming Meetings

Apr

Thu

Guided Mindfulness with Lody Levy

Tickets

Apr 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Time: 6:15pm for 6:30pm start.

Lody Levy is teaching this week.

Lody Levy is a Buddhist Psychotherapist working inBrisbane. She has a well-established meditation practice over many years and regularly attends retreats in the Zen and Insight Meditation tradition. She is a graduate of the Insight Meditation Institute’s Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher Training course. Lody believes that meditation, compassion and mindfulness are essential qualities to cultivate if we are to live a wise and compassionate life, especially in these challenging times.

The talk this week will be on “Cessation: The Third Noble Truth”

Location: Mindful Psychology
6 Qualtrough Street, Woolloongabba

We are grateful to Mindful Psychology for generously hosting these evenings.

There is off-street parking.
Enter through the main entrance at the front of the building and go up the stairs on the left. The sitting room is on the first floor. Chairs are available, but please bring your own cushion or meditation bench.

Apr

Sat

Heart Insight Saturday Silent Retreat

Tickets

Apr 5 @ 8:45 am – 4:00 pm

RESTORE, RELAX, REJUVENATE

The Heart Insight Meditation group is delighted to advise that that are running full days of silent meditation on the first Saturday each month (except January).

The silent retreat days will be held in the beautiful meditation centre and grounds of the Brisbane Quaker Meeting House in Kelvin Grove. This is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your practice with the support of other meditators, in a quiet, private and treed setting. The program will alternate between sitting and walking meditations, and will include lunch and tea breaks. The full day will be held in noble silence.

Please note that no formal guidance or instructions will be offered.

Time: Please arrive by 8:45am – noble silence will start at 9am. The day will end at 3.30pm or you can leave earlier if you prefer.

Address: Quaker Meeting House, 10 HampsonStreet, Kelvin Grove. There is some onsite and street parking available. Public transport options are nearby.

What to bring:

whatever seating arrangement is comfortable for you (chairs and a small numbeer of cushions are available)
water bottle
lunch / snacks
a cash donation towards venue hire (we suggest between $10 and $20) or bank details will be available on the day.

If you have any questions, please email: heart.insight.group@gmail.com

We look forward to welcoming you!

Apr

Sun

Guided Insight Meditation with Devaki

Tickets

Apr 6 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

To join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84957739986?pwd=NGlTMUVncE1qaHp2cDFnbkloWVRuUT09

Meeting ID: 849 5773 9986
Passcode: 771103

Program:

Introductions (5 minutes). A short check-in.
A short settling guided meditation (5 minutes).
An short dharma prompt (5 minutes). This may be as short as a poem or as long as a little dharma talk.
A longer meditation. Guided in and out of the meditation by a teacher, but with plenty of quite time for people to explore their own process (25 minutes).
A shared discussion about the prompt or whatever arises from the meditation (18 minutes).
A few moments silence at the end. With a dedication of merit (2 minute).

Devaki has been doing meditation for 25 yrs. She organises retreats in Rockhampton and teaches mindfulness and loving kindness meditation.

Apr

Thu

Heart Insight In-Person Sit

Tickets

Apr 10 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Time: 6:15pm for a 6:30 start.

Our program this week.

A 30 minute meditation (either silent or guided, depending on those present).
A short recorded dharma talk of about 15 minutes.
Then we share a cuppa and conversation, finishing at 8pm. It’s a warm and friendly environment.

Location: Mindful Psychology
6 Qualtrough Street, Woolloongabba

We are grateful to Mindful Psychology for generously hosting these evenings.

There is off-street parking.
Enter through the main entrance at the front of the building and go up the stairs on the left. The sitting room is on the first floor. Chairs are available, but please bring your own cushion or meditation bench.

Apr

Sun

A RETURN TO KINDNESS, led by Maggie Clark and Devaki.

Tickets

Apr 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

To join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84957739986?pwd=NGlTMUVncE1qaHp2cDFnbkloWVRuUT09

Meeting ID: 849 5773 9986
Passcode: 771103

In these times of uncertainty and unrest in the world, we have the opportunity to come together and meditate to show our support for world peace. If this space provides solace for our aching hearts, it has done something. If it is a very small part of a growing cry for humanity to move beyond the greed, hatred and delusion that binds us to war and unkindness to our fellow humans then it has served a wider good. It seems like a small thing, but as the Buddha said “drop by drop the bucket is filled by good intention”.

Please join us online, the second Sunday every month from 6pm-7pm (Brisbane time). We will meditate together in support of world peace, holding vigil for our brothers and sisters effected by war.

Facilitators:-

Devaki has been doing meditation for 25 years. She organises retreats in Rockhampton and teaches mindfulness and loving kindness meditation.

Maggie has been teaching for 16 years, 8 years as a dharma teacher in schools and 8 years as the founder of Pottsville Meditation in her home town. She teaches mindfulness, loving kindness and recollective awareness meditation, promoting the shared wisdom that arises out of sangha.