“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.
To join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84957739986?pwd=NGlTMUVncE1qaHp2cDFnbkloWVRuUT09
Meeting ID: 849 5773 9986
Passcode: 771103
Program:
- Introductions (5 minutes). A short check-in.
- A short settling guided meditation (5 minutes).
- An short dharma prompt (5 minutes). This may be as short as a poem or as long as a little dharma talk.
- A longer meditation. Guided in and out of the meditation by a teacher, but with plenty of quite time for people to explore their own process (25 minutes).
- A shared discussion about the prompt or whatever arises from the meditation (18 minutes).
- A few moments silence at the end. With a dedication of merit (2 minute).
Sama is a nun in the Theravada tradition and has been doing meditation for 25 yrs. She organises retreats in Rockhampton and teaches mindfulness and loving kindness meditation.
Jacqueline lives in Sydney. She has been meditating since the late nineties, mainly in the insight Mahasi tradition. As a chronic pain sufferer, Jacqueline has a lived experience of how meditation and visualisation can help ease pain. She is passionate about helping others with there chronic pain through meditation.
Maggie has been teaching for 15 years, 8 years as a dharma teacher in schools and 7 years as the founder of Pottsville Meditation in her home town. She teaches mindfulness, loving kindness and recollective awareness meditation, promoting the shared wisdom that arises out of sangha.
Time: 6:15pm for 6:30pm start.
Lody Levy is teaching this week.
Lody Levy is a Buddhist Psychotherapist working inBrisbane. She has a well-established meditation practice over many years and regularly attends retreats in the Zen and Insight Meditation tradition. She is a graduate of the Insight Meditation Institute’s Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher Training course. Lody believes that meditation, compassion and mindfulness are essential qualities to cultivate if we are to live a wise and compassionate life, especially in these challenging times.
Location: Mindful Psychology
6 Qualtrough Street, Woolloongabba
There is off-street parking. Enter through the main entrance at the front of the building and go up the stairs on the left. The sitting room is on the first floor. Chairs are available, but please bring your own cushion or meditation bench.
Join with Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/mfz-kwbb-dea
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To join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84957739986?pwd=NGlTMUVncE1qaHp2cDFnbkloWVRuUT09
Meeting ID: 849 5773 9986
Passcode: 771103
This week we will have a guest teacher: Venerable Kārunikā
Bhikkhuni Ayya Kārunikā
Ayya Kārunikā iscurrently the senior resident monastic at Santi Forest Monastery and has been in monastic life for over 12 years. She received her full ordination as a bhikkhunī in 2014 at Dhammasara Nuns monastery in WesternAustralia where she lived and trained for over a decade with Ajahn Hāsapaññā. She is also a student of Ajahn Brahm and Ajahn Brahmali. AyyaKārunikā is able to articulate the Buddhist teachings in a way that is practical and comprehensible to people of all ages and has experience in conducting day retreats for both adults and youth. While she has a PhD in Microbiology and worked as a scientist, she has also been the building project manager for the construction of Dhammasara main monastery complex and has worked with many volunteers over the years. Ayya Kārunikā was born in SriLanka but has been living and working in Australia for over 2 decades. She hasa passion to share her experience and knowledge and loves working with people and also doing creative projects.
To join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84957739986?pwd=NGlTMUVncE1qaHp2cDFnbkloWVRuUT09
Meeting ID: 849 5773 9986
Passcode: 771103
Program:
- Introductions (5 minutes). A short check-in.
- A short settling guided meditation (5 minutes).
- An short dharma prompt (5 minutes). This may be as short as a poem or as long as a little dharma talk.
- A longer meditation. Guided in and out of the meditation by a teacher, but with plenty of quite time for people to explore their own process (25 minutes).
- A shared discussion about the prompt or whatever arises from the meditation (18 minutes).
- A few moments silence at the end. With a dedication of merit (2 minute).
Sama is a nun in the Theravada tradition and has been doing meditation for 25 yrs. She organises retreats in Rockhampton and teaches mindfulness and loving kindness meditation.
Jacqueline lives in Sydney. She has been meditating since the late nineties, mainly in the insight Mahasi tradition. As a chronic pain sufferer, Jacqueline has a lived experience of how meditation and visualisation can help ease pain. She is passionate about helping others with there chronic pain through meditation.
Maggie has been teaching for 15 years, 8 years as a dharma teacher in schools and 7 years as the founder of Pottsville Meditation in her home town. She teaches mindfulness, loving kindness and recollective awareness meditation, promoting the shared wisdom that arises out of sangha.
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.
Sangha Celebration and Reflection:
We will gather together to reflect on the year past, practice, and enjoy the company of like-minded friends. Please bring along a small nibble to share, any dharma books or materials (eg: Buddha figurines, meditation cushions) you’re ready to offer to a good home at a dharma-swap, and any friends who might be looking for a friendly, low-key group with whom to mark the turning of the year.
Lulu Cook – lulucook@icloud.com
January is often a time to ‘set intentions’ for the coming year. What are intentions? Is there a difference between intentions and expectations? And how can we live our intentions, in the present moment, with kindness and compassion?
We’ll explore what the Buddha said about intentions, and how we can tune into our heart’s wishes for ourselves in the year ahead, and in our meditation practice.
Lyndi Smith has been practising for eleven years and instructing for six. For a couple of years, she lived at retreat centres. Her training is in both traditional and secular mindfulness, and her favourite teachers come from Tibetan Buddhist and Insight communities. She is a trained Mindful Self-Compassion teacher and teaches mindfulness in schools, on teen retreats and in workplaces.
Arrive just before 9am for 9am start Silent, self-led meditation (no instruction) from 9am-12pm.
Suitable for people with meditation experience. Option to practice mindfulness of movement
& stillness according to your own timing. Optional discussion over tea & biscuits from 12-12.30pm
Cost & Bookings:
No bookings required. No charge for event.
Contributions for venue hire are welcome.
What To Bring:
Bolsters and chairs available.
Bring your own sitting equipment if you prefer.
For more information contact:
Melissa Greben at melissagreben@gmail.com
or Yoon-Suk Hwang at yoonsuk.hwang@gmail.com
Often when we come to practise meditation we find ourselves overwhelmed by the river of stories that flows through our minds. This is the realm of narrative, the virtual world within which we live most of the time. In the Buddha’s language, this is the world of the sixth sense, that of mind (mano). Our basic task is to keep our awareness in the physical world, the world of the five senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. We practise intimacy, where we stay with the touch of sense object on its corresponding sensitivity – the touch of sights on eye sensitivity, the touch of sounds on ear sensitivity, and so on. Finally, we approach the sixth sensitivity, that of mind, by learning to stay with the touch of thought, feeling and perception. We learn to stay with touch rather than story; even the touch of story itself.