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The Oddiyana Dharma Sanctuary
The Oddiyana Dharma Sanctuary is the home of Meditation. We are a peaceful community of meditators who attend meditation classes, courses, retreats, workshops and weekly group meditations, which include Buddhist philosophy teachings.
Visitors from all faiths and geography visit our temple. Local community members from the Hervey Bay and Maryborough region come on a more regular basis.
Although our main focus is meditation and hearing the teachings of the Buddha, shared by the resident sangha Choeying Dolma, we also enjoy other activities such as Movie Nights, Zen Afternoon Tea Parties, ceremonies and celebrations of auspicious Buddhist days such as Sakya Dawa . . .The Birth, Enlightenment and Parinirvana (passing) of the Buddha Shakyamuni.
We also have the great honour of facilitating Workshops and/or Retreats for Community Organisations, including Public Service and other community organisations when requested.
We have recently begun facilitating Pilgrimages to India and Nepal, with the next beginning in September 2011. In the following years we will be taking pilgrimages to Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Ladakh and Thailand. All pilgrimages are a wonderful blend of meditation, prayer, practices and teachings of the Dharma. Almost by osmosis by just “being” amongst these deeply spiritual people, in their life-changing magical countries, we absorb these amazing teachings through the lives they live so spiritually.
Our meditators and students of the Dharma range in age, from children to elderly, gender, culture and those from different faiths and secular beliefs.
Their motivations for coming also vary. Some are seeking a spiritual journey. Some are seeking relief from illness and chronic pain.
Many come for support to deal with mental and physical difficulties such as depression and anxiety. Others seek to have less anger in order to achieve peace and calm in their lives and others come just out of curiosity or interest in Buddhism.
Some of our dedicated students say they, “Just found themselves in the Sanctuary quite by accident,” or, from the Buddhist perspective, here by a karmic connection.
It has been our experience that whether visitors continue practicing meditation or just visit the Sanctuary occasionally, or indeed if they only visit once – they all take away with them a little seed of wisdom and compassion. Hopefully this encourages them to find their path to Enlightenment, whatever their path may be.
In the midst of the surrounding serene, tropical gardens of Oddiyana The Sanctuary Tea Gardens dwell and after each class we enjoy a quiet cup of tea together where we either sit quietly, mindfully sipping our tea that we have selected from a vast menu of herbal and exotic teas from around the world or simply enjoy the opportunity to have a chat with like minded people.
We extend to you a warm welcome to visit us at the Oddiyana Dharma Sanctuary Hervey Bay.
