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INSIGHTAotearoa
A newsletter dedicated to supporting individuals and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand who practice insight meditation, INSIGHTAotearoa is sent out monthly by email or by post to those who ask for it.
Now an independent publication, it grew out of Wellington Insight Meditation Community and circulates countrywide as well as overseas.
Edited by Christine Dann in Port Levy and Kanya Stewart in New Plymouth, with contributions from others, some regularly and others occasionally, Caren Wilton in Wellington keeps the website at http://www.insightaotearoa.org up to date
To subscribe to INSIGHTAotearoa send an email to insightaotearoa+subscribe@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe send an email to insightaotearoa+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
There is no subscription price. We rely on the generosity of the readership for our financial support -- please look at the section on generosity to discover ways of supporting the newsletter.
Online resources for those wanting to learn to meditate
How to meditate: the art of formal practice, by Tara Brach
http://www.imcw.org/how-meditate as a web page or
http://www.tarabrach.com/how-to-meditate.pdf as a document
Some simple instructions for people starting out
http://nyimc.org/index.php/site/learnmeditate/
Sitting meditation instructions, by Jack Kornfield
http://www.jackkornfield.org/index/meditations?id=sittingMeditation
An introduction to meditation, by Gil Fronsdal (six downloadable MP3 files)
http://www.audiodharma.org/talks-intromed.html
Awakening joy, a ten month experiential online course
http://www.awakeningjoy.info/
Nelson cook and gardener Roger Wilde’s thoughts on beginning meditation
http://www.wildhealthfood.com/learn-to-meditate
Dharma talks by Australian teacher Winton Higgins are available as PDfs at
http://www.beaches-sangha.org/Downloads/default.aspx
Other resources
INSIGHTAotearoa, a monthly newsletter for New Zealand’s insight meditation practitioners and communities
http://www.insightaotearoa.org
Aotearoa Buddhist Education Trust
http://www.abet.net.nz
Original Nature Meditation Center, Wellington
http://originalnature.co.nz
The Insight Meditation Center, Barre, Massachusetts, USA
http://www.dharma.org
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, Marin County, California, USA
http://www.spiritrock.org
Insight meditation in Australia
http://www.dharma.org.au
Gaia House, Devon, Britain
http://www.gaiahouse.co.uk
Against The Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, the home of dharma punx
http://www.againstthestream.org/
Metta Foundation, the home of insight dialogue
http://www.metta.org/
Audiodharma archive of downloadable dharma talks
http://www.audiodharma.org
Dharma Seed audio archive of downloadable dharma talks
http://www.dharmaseed.org
Recommended books, periodicals, downloads, links etc
http://www.abet.net.nz/resources