“Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary
stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.”
― Noah Levine
Upcoming
Below you will find a list of upcoming events at Heart Insight including the teacher who will be leading the night and the topic for the teaching and discussion. See below for a list of previous events.
Join us on September 15th for the special premiere of the Dharma Panel. An opportunity to ask the questions you’ve always wanted to! Breaking from our usual Sunday night proceedings there will no specific theme, instead Victor and Lulu will be sharing the dharma Q&A style. Questions will be a mix of those submitted previously and some spontaneous on the night.
No question is too big or too small. It could be about personal practice (how to stop falling asleep when I meditate?), life and relationships (how can practice help me off my coffee addiction?), the esoteric (can monks actually read minds?), controversial (can psychedelics be helpful on the path?) or even about the teacher’s practice (most significant experience/insight?).
To submit a question email heart.insight.group@gmail.com or add it to the donation bowls over the next few Sunday nights. Please note due to time constraints only a selection of submitted questions will be answered. Don’t delay, submit it now!
Book Merchant Jenkins
19 Dornoch Terrace
West End, QLD
Freely offered; donations accepted for the venue. Tea and nibbles will be available.
What is a Death Café?
At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. Our objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’. This group is for discussing death with no agenda, themes, or objectives. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session.
Offered by Lulu Cook, APD and Lynn Kelly, teachers at Heart Insight Meditation. Lulu is a dietitian helping people heal gut health, mental health, and food addiction challenges. Lynn is a long time practitioner of the Buddhadharma and an experienced hospice volunteer.
Kindly RSVP via email
lulucook@icloud.com
or phone Lynn at 0421 513 733
Previous
Below you will find a list of previous events starting from the beginning of the year. Use the month navigation to find the date you are looking for.
Join us at Heart Insight this Sunday 21st January to explore the topic of “Naikan: Exploring Gratitude” with Victor Von Der Heyde.
We meet at 6pm to commence meditation at 6:15pm, followed by a dharma talk and discussion, with tea and socializing at 7:45 @ Haiku, 71 Russell Street, West End
Victor has been practising meditation for forty years. He studied with a wide range of dharma teachers, has spent over two years in silent retreats and has taken dharma teaching roles since the mid 1990s. Victor has an interest helping people understand the varieties of meditation so that they’re in a position to choose what works for them. He has had a long term focus on environmental ethics, he spent two decades helping manage a small overseas aid organisation and worked for many years as a counsellor.
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This talk will introduce the Buddha’s central teaching, that of dependent arising (paticcasamuppada). We begin with the Buddha’s concept of dharma, a naturalistic view of the world that is grounded on human experience and is not interested in anything beyond the realm of the human. Dependent arising takes a systems view of the world, where reality is found in relationships rather than the things and understanding these relationships gives us the key to living a fully satisfying life.
This talk will introduce the Buddha’s central teaching, that of dependent arising (paticcasamuppada). We begin with the Buddha’s concept of dharma, a naturalistic view of the world that is grounded on human experience and is not interested in anything beyond the realm of the human. Dependent arising takes a systems view of the world, where reality is found in relationships rather than the things and understanding these relationships gives us the key to living a fully satisfying life.
Patrick has over 30 years experience in Buddhist meditation, in both the Zen and Theravada traditions. Since 1984 he has trained in vipassana (insight) meditation in the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. His teachers have included Robert Aitken Roshi, Christopher Titmuss, Sayadaw U Pandita, Sayadaw U Lakkhana, Sayadaw U Janaka, John Hale, Sayadaw U Vivekananda and Sayadaw U Tejaniya.
See www.dharmasalon.net for more about Patrick including recorded talks.
We meet at 6pm to commence meditation at 6:15pm, followed by a dharma talk and discussion, with tea and socializing at 7:45 @ Haiku, 71 Russell Street, West End
Reflections on the Fire Sermon, Life & Path.
Ayya Tathaaloka Bhikkhuni is an American-born Theravada nun, scholar and Buddhist teacher. She is also the founder of Dhammadharini Vihara, co-founder of Aranya Bodhi Hermitage, recipient of the 2006 Outstanding Women in Buddhism Award, a presenting scholar at the 2007 International Congress on Buddhist Women’s Role in the Sangha and appointed Preceptor for the historically significant 2009 Bhikkhuni Ordination held in Perth, Australia.
