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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.
We will not meet on Boxing Day, 26 December 2024.
Our next in-person sit is on 2 January.
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.
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).
Tonight’s topic will be self-compassion meditation.
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.
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.
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).
Tonight’s topic will be self-compassion meditation.
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.
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.
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, Mal Huxter.
Mal’s topic is the Five Recollections.
The five recollections are reminders of the realities of aging, sickness, death, being parted from what we hold dear and the fact that we are the owners of our actions. The Buddha recommended that everyone, lay or monastic, should recollect these realities on a daily basis, as they can bring great peace with the realities of life. Please be warned. This talk addresses the fact that we will all die. Though this may sound morbid, it is actually quite sobering and leading to equanimity.
Mal Huxter is a clinical psychologist in private practice and a Dharma teacher. He is the author of “Healing the heart and mind with mindfulness. Ancient path, present moment”, Routledge 2016. He designs and conducts courses, workshops and silent retreats. He has been teaching mindfulness and the four heart qualities (loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity) to the general public, clinical populations, therapists and other professionals since 1991. As a psychologist he is a teacher of MSC and CEB and trained in a range of therapies including CFT. As a meditator and meditation teacher he began training in Buddhist meditation practices in 1975, living in Thailand as a Buddhist monk in the forest tradition for two years in the late 1970’s. Though mostly within the Theravada he has also practiced within Tibetan Mahayana and Zen traditions. For more info about Mal go to: https://www.malhuxter.com/
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.
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:-
Sama is a nun in the Theravada tradition and 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 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.