Retreats


2012
TAIRUA
Insight Dialogue
Mary Burns & Sharon Beckman-Brindley
11-18 Feb 2012
residential retreat at Te Moata retreat centre, 180 Paul Road, Tairua

$470 to attend plus dana for teachers (please offer your dana at end of retreat) for info contact Viv Blackshaw send an email
to register contact Te Moata 07 868 8798 | send an email

''' Insight dialogue''' is an interpersonal meditation practice. It is based upon traditional Buddhist insight meditation, and involves cultivating the same qualities of mindfulness and calm concentration.

These qualities are cultivated while in relationship, while speaking and listening with one or more people, and as such, the keen and settled mind can gain insight into the nature of suffering and ease, identification and freedom.

The topics of the dialogues are intended to invite the meditators into direct experiences of impermanence and selflessness, love and compassion, the suffering that comes with clinging and the release that comes with letting go.

The wisdom of selflessness and the compassion of the shared human experience become immediately present. The integration with our lives is revealing, challenging, and liberating.

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There are a number of communities and individuals who practise insight meditation, as well as people who teach it, in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This website lets you know who they are and where they can be found, as well as where you can find sitting groups, learn to meditate, and sign up for retreats.

Contact the community or person nearest to you to find out more.

A Thought for Today

In this fathom long body, with its perceptions and consciousness, is the arising and ceasing of the entire universe.

— The Buddha