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, 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
facebook.com/groups/heartinsightbrisbane
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Upcoming Meetings

Nov

Thu

Guided Mindfulness with Lody Levy

Tickets

Nov 21 @ 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.

Location: Mindful Psychology
6 Qualtrough Street, Woolloongabba

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.

Nov

Sun

Sutta Study with John Kelly

Tickets

Nov 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

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

Meeting ID: 849 5773 9986
Passcode: 771103

This is a peer-group discussion on a discourse from the Pāli Canon. The group will read the sutta together, rotating with each person present reading a small section, followed by reflection and discussion. It is recommended that participants try to read one or more translations of the sutta beforehand. The sutta name and a link to finding a translation (or translations) online will be sent out prior to the sutta study.

John Kelly has been a practicing Buddhist since the early 1990s and has studied the Pāli language since the early 2000s. He has been principal assistant to Bhikkhu Bodhi in four of his most recent sutta translation publications. In 2005 John was a founding member and designer on the team that created SuttaCentral.net, a continuously growing trove of information on early Buddhist texts, translations, and parallels. John has an MA in Buddhist Studies, and his dissertation for this MA, “The Buddha’s Teachings to Lay People”, was published in Buddhist Studies Review.

Nov

Thu

Heart Insight In-Person Sit

Tickets

Nov 28 @ 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.

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

Location: Mindful Psychology
6 Qualtrough Street, Woolloongabba

There is off-street parking. Enter through the main entrance at the front of the buildingand 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.

Dec

Sun

Guided Insight Meditation with Sama

Tickets

Dec 1 @ 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).

Sama is a nun in the Theravada tradition and has been doing meditation for 25 yrs. She organises retreats in Rockhampton and teaches mindfulness and loving kindness meditation.

Dec

Thu

Heart Insight In-Person Sit

Tickets

Dec 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

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

Our program this week.

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

Location: Mindful Psychology
6 Qualtrough Street, Woolloongabba

There is off-street parking. Enter through the main entrance at the front of the buildingand 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.