Posted on February 15th, 2010
BUDDHA BOOTCAMP
CALM ABIDING MEDITATION COURSE & WEEKEND RETREAT - starting at the end of February 2010
The theme for the next course comes from one of our great forefathers Mahatma Ghandhi, whose famous, most relevant, quote for our modern times, “Be the Change You Want to see in the World”, to me, is the most eloquent way to describe what meditation can do for you.
It helps us to stop looking “out there” for happiness. It helps us to stop trying to change the people and our environment to achieve happiness.
It helps us to empower ourselves to be the “Director of our own Happiness”. A happiness that is not dependent on other people or our environment.
It is dependent on our willingness to just “sit” and find out about the most interesting person on the planet . . . OURSELVES!
NEW DATES AND TIMES
WHERE:
The Oddiyana Dharma Sanctuary – 14 Layde Court Urangan
PHONE:
4125 5530 or call Choeying on 0408 257 071 (bookings are essential)
DATE:
SUNDAY 28th February – SUNDAY 28th March
TIMES:
8.30am to 2.00pm (Registration 8.00am) Sunday 28th February 2010
5.30pm to 8.00pm (Registration 5.30pm) Wednesday 3rd March 2010
8.00am to 2.00pm Sunday 7th March 2010
5.30pm to 8.00pm Wednesday 10th March 2010
8.00am to 2.00pm Sunday 14th March 2010
5.30pm to 8.00pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
8.00am to 2.00pm Sunday 21st March 2010
5.30pm – 8.00pm Wednesday 24th March 2010
Retreat:
7.00 am to 6.00pm Saturday 27th March 2010
7.00 am to 6.00pm 2010 Sunday 28th March 2010
PRICE:
The Full Course: $70 (pensioners 10% disc) includes course materials
WHAT TO BRING:
A notebook and pen.
A plate to share for lunch each Sunday at “The Sanctuary Tea Gardens”
IMPORTANT: Wear baggy cool clothes. Tight clothes (even stretchy shorts and jeans) cut off circulation and create obstacles to your meditation.
Please click here to learn more..
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Posted on February 3rd, 2010
This is a very big question that takes more than five minutes to answer so I have borrowed concepts from Thich Nhat Hahn who I believe is the world’s expert on love. Okay, Love has many parts and levels.
However ,when trying to understand love we also need to contemplate what is NOT love. Most love we experience is clouded in attachment especially when our minds are obstructed by our delusions mostly, in this case our desire, passion etc. When we “fall in love” as they commonly say it is mostly due to our karmic connection with the other person and the delusions of desire and passion. We deludedly think this passion will sustain our love forever and are devastated when it doesn’t. We don’t see that love is like a a beautiful garden – it only stays vibrant and alive and beautiful with tender loving care, nourishment and the understanding of the needs of the soil, plants etc.
I have attached the rest as it is easier then typing on email. (download pdf here) Of course as always these are just intellectual concepts and are not very useful unless one meditates Firstly find self love and then the ability to love others. If we cannot love ourselves how can we possibly love anyone else. We will continually expect the “other’ to fill this loveless barron self and this is a recipe for destoying self love – we become a barron dessert thirsty for love destined to a life of looking for love, “in all the wrong faces in all the wrong places” as the song goes!
I hope you benefit from this and may you meditate to find “self love” so abundant that you have no choice but to share this abudnace of love with others.
Love and prayers
Choeying
www.oddiyanadharmasanctuary.org
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Posted on January 28th, 2010
Hello everyone,
It has been a very busy Christmas and New Year on the spiritual front. Christmas is a difficult time for many. I will be taking a short break from the Sanctuary to retreat into my own practice and attend personal family matters.
I will also be on a 10 day retreat at Bangalow in April.
However,there will be an informal group … meditation on Sundays for those who have completed the course or who have attended other Calm Abiding courses starting this Sunday from 9.00am – 11.00am as usual. It is very important to meditate as a group to gain insights into how to have calm and contentment in ones life.
I will join you whenever possible but please do it whether I am here or not. ….
Love Choeying xox
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Posted on January 17th, 2010
We apologise;
Due to a death in the family the Calm Abiding Course has been postponed until further notice.
May you be well
May you be happy
With love and prayers
Choeying
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Posted on December 21st, 2009
POSTPONED TILL FURTHER NOTICE
“BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD”
You are invited to the next Calm Abiding Meditation Course and Weekend Retreat
The theme for the next course comes from one of our great forefathers Mahatma Ghandhi, whose famous, most relevant, quote for our modern times, “Be the Change You Want to see in the World”, to me, is the most eloquent way to describe what meditation can do for you.
It helps us to stop looking “out there” for happiness. It helps us to stop trying to change the people and our environment to achieve happiness.
It helps us to empower ourselves to be the “Director of our own Happiness”. A happiness that is not dependent on other people or our environment.
It is dependent on our willingness to just “sit” and find out about the most interesting person on the planet . . . OURSELVES!
We are so separated from ourselves (and others) we are lonely and unhappy.
We need to take “time out” to contemplate. Every moment we are not “with” ourselves (and others) . . .
That is a moment of living happily that has been robbed from us.
Come and learn how to meditate to find out how to “live happily”, every moment of your life ”in the here and now”.
Don’t make the mistake of “waiting until you have time” . . . You will never find the time . . . Our self-imposed “ busy western life” will steal it away from you . . . And before you know it . .
Time has run out!
Fill in your registration form online or call us at: 4125 5530
. . . or call Choeying on 0408 257 071 Bookings are essential
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