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Teaching schedule
2017
21st
February: Bluegum
Sangha, Neutral Bay, Sydney: Longer
retreats: a personal story
2nd March: Beaches
Sangha, Northern Beaches, Sydney:
Soulfulness and Stress
th March: Golden
Wattle Sangha, Bondi Junction, Sydney:
Soulfulness and Stress
21st March: Bluegum Sangha,
Neutral Bay, Sydney: Soulfulness and
Stress
23rd April: Heart
Insight Meditation Group, Brisbane: Friendship
as part of Practice
30th April: Heart Insight
Meditation Group, Brisbane: Our Attitudes
to People We Don't Know
7th May: Heart Insight
Meditation Group, Brisbane:Exploring our
Attitudes to Nature
24th to
31st May: Insight
Meditation: Finding Your Own Way retreat, with Lizzie
Turnbull, at Springbrook, on the Gold Coast
hinterland. We'll be covering somatic and
imaginal practices, compassion meditations,
ways of settling the discursive mind, energy
body awareness and meditations that help us
deconstruct the way we take in the world.
Suitable for both new and experienced
meditators. More experienced meditators have
the option of making it a largely solitary
retreat. Bookings now open. Registration
form here.
11th June (Sunday):
Morning of practice with shared
lunch at Bodhi
Chan Meditation Centre, 223 Dennis
Road, Springwood (about 25 to 30 minutes
drive south from Brisbane city centre).
Arrive between 9:00 and 9:20 for a 9:30
start. There are chairs and some cushions
and mats in the meditation hall but if you
have your own sitting gear, you might like
to bring that. No need to book, please bring
a plate for the shared lunch. Lunch will be
at 1:00. There'll be three sittings in the
morning, half hour breaks for walking
meditation and/or tea, and a short talk on
"experimenting with the balance of focus and
tone in practice".
25th June
to 30th July: Six week intermediate
level Sunday evening course in
Crows Nest, Sydney, called Refining
Practice, Refining Views. Run through SIM
(Sydney Insight Meditators). Week 1: Our
sense of myth and the dharma; Week 2:
Insight and samadhi; Week 3: Mindfulness and
the energy body; Week 4: Shifting views of
metta and mudita: Week 5: Passion and the
path; Week 6: Emptiness.
29th June: Golden
Wattle Sangha, Bondi Juntion: Solitary
Retreats, a Personal Story
8th to 15th
October: Dharma Yatra, with
Ronny Hickel: Nightcap National Park and
surrounds. Bookings will open around three
months beforehand.
Audio recordings
2016
Eros and Practice
- Part 1, 5th June, Heart Insight
Group, 23 mins
Eros and Practice
- part 2, 12th June, Heart Insight
Group, 24 mins
2015
Common Places
where Practitioners Hang their Hat, 15th March, Heart
Insight Group, 36 mins
Ethics: Engaged
or Marginalised?, 29th March, Heart Insight
Group, 33 mins
2014
Reflections on
Recollective Awareness, 27th May, Bluegum
Sangha, 34 mins
2013
Ethics, Climate
Change and Practice 2nd April, Bluegum
Sangha, 53 mins.
Attitudes to
practice: Factors that contribute to
different attitudes and how our attitude
can influence what happens (part 1) 19th May,
Heart Insight Group, Brisbane, 27 mins
Attitudes to
practice: Factors that contribute to
different attitudes and how our attitude
can influence what happens (part 2) 26th May,
Heart Insight Group, Brisbane, 30 mins
Ethics, Climate
Change and Practice - Part 1 16th June,
Heart Insight Group, 43 mins
Ethics, Climate
Change and Practice - Part 2 23rd June,
Heart Insight Group, 36 mins
Ethics, Climate
Change and Practice - Part 3 30th June,
Heart Insight Group, 19 mins
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