Insight
Meditation in Brisbane
January to June 2012:
Weekly: Early Sunday morning sittings with
Eoin Liebchen-Meades
9th February - 22nd March:
Introduction to Meditation course with Victor von der
Heyde
26th February: Late Sunday morning sittings
followed by shared lunch
9th March: Friday
evening program with Stephen and Martine Batchelor at the
Jagera Arts Centre
10th - 17th March: Study
retreat with Stephen and Martine Batchelor
18th
- 25th March: Silent retreat with Stephen and Martine Batchleor
7th - 8th April: Weekend Recollective Awareness
workshop with Jason Siff
3rd June: Late Sunday
morning sittings followed by shared lunch
DharmaCloud runs introductory meditation courses,
hosts occasional Sunday morning meditation sessions, organises
in-service teacher training courses for established meditation
teachers and offers occasional meditation retreats. Most of the
bigger retreats are held in Northern NSW.
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.
Stephen
and Martine Batchelor at Jagera Arts Centre, South Brisbane
6:30
- 9:30pm, Friday 9th March 2012,
Meditation instructions, meditation,
talk on Secular Buddhism, discussion.
Arrival times: before 6:30
or at around 7:50pm.
Recollective
Awareness weekend with Jason Siff, Greg Bantick and Eoin Liebchen-Meades
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th April 2012.
9am - 4pm.
Sunday sit and eat
programs, January - June 2012
The 'sit and eat' mornings
for this half year are Sunday 26th February and Sunday
3rd June. The program is:
10:00 Sit
10:45
Break (walk,tea and/or read)
11:15 sit
12.00
break (walk,tea and/or read)
12:30 sit
1:00
lunch (bring a plate to share)
You can arrive before 9:30
or come in any of the breaks. The DharmaCloud library will be
open for people wanting to read during the breaks. You don't
need to let us know you're coming, you can just show up. These
mornings are for people who are comfortable (reasonably) sitting
for 45 minute periods and don't need guidance or instructions.
Cost: free, although there
is a donation box and anything you put there will go to projects
in India we support (Bodhgaya Development Association).
Introduction to Meditation course
with Victor von der Heyde
February
- March 2012 (6 Thursday evenings and 2 sunday evenings)
9th, 16th,
23rd February (all Thursday nights), 1st March (Thursday) 4th
March (Sunday), 8th March (Thursday), 18th March (Sunday), 22nd
March (Thursday).
If you're
interested in this course please contact us though the DharmaCloud
email or phone number below.
This is an eight session course
run over seven weeks. The aim of the course is to give people
a good grounding in different styles of meditation. What is covered
is types of mindfulness practice, other more open styles of meditation,
meditations that generate a warm and kind attitude, and Naikan
practice, a method of contemplation. The course is intended for
people who would like to learn an approach to stress management,
or to becoming more calm and grounded, or who would like tools
to see more clearly what sort of inner landscapes we go through
and what sort of options we have in those landscapes. All the
meditation practices come from Buddhism and while the course
will cover some aspects of Buddhism that relate to meditation,
you won't be asked to believe anything.
The cost for the eight session
course is $96.
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 and Australia
and these included Insight Meditation, Zen, Dzogchen 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. His particular interest
is in helping people understand the different types of meditation
so that they're in a position to choose what works for them.
Victor has also completed graduate studies in Social Science,
worked for many years as a counsellor, and is chairman of the
Bodhgaya Development Association, an aid organisation that supports
literacy and self-sufficiency programs in India.
2012
Retreats with Stephen and Martine Batchelor
10 -17 March and 18 - 25 March
in Northern NSW.
Regular Sunday morning meditation
There is a regular Sunday morning
sit from 8 to 10 am followed by a discussion on meditation, a
time to look at people's experience, or a short talk. The sitting
is a solid block with no breaks but you can (quietly) come into
the room after 8 or go out to have a break. Some people arrive
around 9 am.
The group is for people with
an established meditation practice and not suitable for beginners.
It is run by Eoin Liebchen-Meades who has nearly 40 years experience
in meditation and has practiced with a wide variety of Buddhist
and other teachers. Eoin has taught meditation for over 15 years
and the style of the discussion and the talks is influenced by
the work of Jason Siff and Recollective Awareness.
There may be some Sundays where
Eoin is away and the group doesn't run. To confirm that the sitting
is on, please email Eoin on eoinlm at gmail.com or call Eoin
or Crissi on 3399 7251 (w).
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. There are also tapes, CDs and Buddhist magazines.
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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