Insight
Meditation in Brisbane
DharmaCloud runs occasional Insight Meditation
courses or practice days in Brisbane and offers annual week-long
meditation retreats.
A weekly meditation group,
the Heart
Insight group, meets in West End.
Day
of Practice at Springwood
10th August 2014 with Victor
von der Heyde, 9:30 - 5:00pm
at the Bodhi Chan
Meditation Centre
This is a chance to have a
silent day of practice in the bush close to Brisbane. The talks
will include guidance on spacious awareness and practices related
to not self/anatta.
If you’d like to come,
please email
Buddhist
Meditation for Beginners
6 week course starting 29th
August 2014, with Lynn Kelly
at the Quaker Meeting House, Kelvin Grove
Lynn Kelly is an experienced
meditation instructor, authorized by the Community Dharma Leadership
program, Spirit Rock Meditation Center (California, USA, 1999).
Lynn has been a follower of the Buddha’s teachings for more
than 25 years.
2014
Springbrook retreat
Insight Meditation: Finding
your own Way
with Victor von der Heyde and Lizzie
Turnbull
Springbrook, SE Qld
Wednesday 27 August - Wednesday 3rd September 2014
Registration
form
Victor
von der Heyde has been
practicing meditation for over thirty years. He studied with
a wide range of teachers in India, Nepal, the US, the UK and
Australia and these included Insight Meditation, Zen, and non-aligned
teachers. He has taken dharma teaching roles since the early
1990s and has been leading yatras since they started in Australia
in 2006. Victor worked for many years as a counsellor and is
chair of the Bodhgaya Development Association, an aid organisation
that supports literacy and self-sufficiency programs in India
Lizzie
Turnbull has been studying
and practising Buddhism since 1985 beginning in the Vajrayana
tradition and then in Zen and Western Insight, encountering a
number of teachers along the way. She began teaching Insight
meditation retreats in 2010. For many years she has been interested
in integrating the Buddha Dharma into the areas of the social
sciences and psychotherapy. Lizzie was a director of Somatics
Body Oriented Psychotherapy Training in Sydney and now teaches
and supervises on the Australian Association of Buddhist Counsellors
and Psychotherapists (AABCAP) professional training programme
in Buddhism and Psychotherapy. She has a private practice in
the Byron Shire.
DharmaCloud Library: There is a library for people who come
to DharmaCloud events on a regular basis. It requires a $10 refundable
deposit to become a member. The book catalogue is in two sections:
A to K and L
to Z.
DharmaCloud email list: We have an email list for people
who would like to receive occasional emails - very occasional
- of DharmaCloud events. This is just for people in Brisbane
and different from the list used for the quarterly Insight Meditation
News. If you'd like to be on this list, please email us (email
address below).
For further
information call (07) 3343-8243 or email
dharma.org.au
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