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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.
Unfortunately Lody can’t make it this week as previously advertised. Lody sends her apologies.
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.
To join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84957739986?pwd=NGlTMUVncE1qaHp2cDFnbkloWVRuUT09
Meeting ID: 849 5773 9986
Passcode: 771103
This Sunday we have a guest teacher, Ayya Suvira.
Ayya’s topic this week is: Brightening our minds for Vesak: Preparing for a Meditative May
About Ayya Suvira:
Ayya Suvira received going forth as a novice in 2016. In early 2019 she completed a Buddhist pilgrimage to India and Nepal, having visited the four holy sites and the Buddha’s bone relic in Delhi. In July 2019 she received ordination as a bhikkhuni, with Ayya Santini Mahatheri as preceptor. In 2021, she arrived in Sydney with next to nothing, but due to the loving support of the donors UBU was born and she was invited (offered pavarana) by the committee after incorporation in 2023. Her sincere aspiration is for the success of the UBU project.
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.
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. A link to the sutta will be provided here prior to the session.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.