Insight
Meditation in Brisbane
DharmaCloud currently runs occasional events at
Morningside and offers annual week-long meditation retreats.
Morning and evening events
are normally held at the Cloudroom, which is in the grounds
of the Morningside Healing Sanctuary, 147 Richmond Road,
Morningside on the corner of Bonar Street. The entrance is in
Bonar Street.
A weekly meditation group,
the Heart
Insight group, meets in West End.
Stephen
and Martine Batchelor in Brisbane: Friday 28th February 2014
at Mercy Place, 371 Simpsons
Road, Bardon
1-4 pm led by Martine: Mindfulness
and Appreciative Joy
6 - 9 pm led byStephen: The
Everyday Sublime: Imaginationg and Art as Dharma Practice.
Stephen Batchelor is a Buddhist Dharma teacher, writer and translator
known for his secular views and his bestselling book Buddhism
without Beliefs. He was a monk for 10 years, first studying and
practicing Tibetan Buddhism and then Korean Zen. He travels widely,
teaching regularly in North America and Europe, leads pilgrimages
to Buddhist sites in India, and is currently working on a book
for Yale University Press.
Martine Batchelor is also a writer, translator and meditation
teacher. She is the author of The Spirit of the Buddha, and Let
Go: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits. She was a Buddhist
nun for ten years studying Zen in Korea, Taiwan and Japan and
she now lives with her husband Stephen in France and teaches
worldwide. Her books also include Women in Koren Zen, Principles
of Zen and the illustrated Meditation for Life.
Stephen and Martine are leading
retreats in the Border ranges following this afternoon and
evening program.
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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