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February 2021
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Peace in the Park
In collaboration with Nelson Buddhist Centre, Nelson Insight Meditation, and Mindful Living Nelson. Sunday February 14th, 10:00am to 12:00pm, ANZAC park, Nelson. *** Also March 14th and April 11th *** Join us for a second year of gentle quietude and play in the midst of summer in the city. This summer brings together several local groups dedicated to peace. Bring your friends and whānau, chairs, blankets, water, sunscreen and cushions for comfort. Kids are welcome to play independently or join in when they wish. Dana/Koha. For further information please contact Duncan at dharmasphere108@gmail.com
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Warm Heart Open Mind - Developing the Practice of Loving Kindness
Facilitated by The dharmasphere Collective Earth Hub, Haven Road, Nelson Monday evenings 7:15pm, 22nd February - 26th March The heart-centred Loving Kindness meditation is a doorway to rediscovering our natural state of love and gentleness. It leads to insight and freedom from suffering— an authentic, rich presence with whatever is arising. In daily life we often lose touch with this essence of kindness and find ourselves feeling disconnected. This can lead us to behaving judgmentally towards ourselves and others and feeling anxious, isolated, lonely, angry or sad. |
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The meditation and contemplation on Loving Kindness is an age-old practice, taught by the Buddha, that helps us reconnect and rest into our natural state. As we learn to trust the innate kindness within our hearts, we open more fully to a gracious flow and friendliness - an ability to stay present and loving amidst the uncertainty, changes and decisions we face in life.
This 6-week course offers an opportunity to learn and develop the practice of Loving Kindness. Together as a community we will explore Loving Kindness through focussed meditation and creative enquiry, with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and share our discoveries with each other, enriching the experience for all. We will develop our capacity for this "super power" that directly benefits both ourselves and others - a generous and genuine offering for our world.
The facilitators are all experienced practitioners who bring their skills, creativity and care to this course.
Cost : $80 for 6 weeks
Registration is essential
To enquire or register, please contact Chani at dharmasphere108@gmail.com
If finances are a barrier for you, please get in touch with us, and we will be happy to arrange something to enable you to attend.
This 6-week course offers an opportunity to learn and develop the practice of Loving Kindness. Together as a community we will explore Loving Kindness through focussed meditation and creative enquiry, with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and share our discoveries with each other, enriching the experience for all. We will develop our capacity for this "super power" that directly benefits both ourselves and others - a generous and genuine offering for our world.
The facilitators are all experienced practitioners who bring their skills, creativity and care to this course.
Cost : $80 for 6 weeks
Registration is essential
To enquire or register, please contact Chani at dharmasphere108@gmail.com
If finances are a barrier for you, please get in touch with us, and we will be happy to arrange something to enable you to attend.
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Our Interbeing Nature - Expanding into the wider life of the planet
A thoroughly enlivening talk exploring the meeting point of mindfulness, deep ecology and our place in the world - with Tarchin Hearn. Nelson Buddhist Centre, 87 Nile Street, Nelson Sunday 28th February, 10am - 12pm Koha / Donation entry Mindfulness is far more than a stress reduction technique. It is a way of wisdom that reveals every moment of experience as an immeasurably vast and deeply intimate exchange with a living world. With an appreciation for the interbeing nature of all experience we feel the deep stirring of bodhicitta - a naturally evolving disposition for cultivating, both in ourselves and others, the magnificent human potential for panoramic, multi-realmed awareness, and ceaseless compassion and love. |
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March 2021
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Peace in the Park
In collaboration with Nelson Buddhist Centre, Nelson Insight Meditation, and Mindful Living Nelson. Sunday March 14th, 10:00am to 12:00pm, ANZAC park, Nelson. *** Also April 11th *** Join us for a second year of gentle quietude and play in the midst of summer in the city. This summer brings together several local groups dedicated to peace. Bring your friends and whānau, chairs, blankets, water, sunscreen and cushions for comfort. Kids are welcome to play independently or join in when they wish. Dana/Koha. For further information please contact Duncan at dharmasphere108@gmail.com |
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Creative Awakening
March 31st - April 5th At The Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre Ready to explore new aspects of yourself? Curious about the Wangapeka? Feeling a desire to try something different? Interested in the potential of the collective? Wanting to cultivate kindness towards oneself and others? |
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This community led retreat is a chance to explore aspects of our individual and collective creativity on the path to healing, opening and freeing the heart. It is suitable for those new to meditation and those who already have some experience.
Negative patterns of mind can block our creative potential and prevent us waking up to our true expansive nature. These five days together will involve a mixture of meditation, time for individual and group creative exploration, periods of silent contemplation and space to just enjoy being in the natural nurturing environment that is the Wangapeka.
The retreat facilitators are committed to a style of facilitating which values collaboration. They have many years of experience in meditation and are part of the dharmasphere collective based in Nelson.
For more information and to register .... Creative Awakening
Negative patterns of mind can block our creative potential and prevent us waking up to our true expansive nature. These five days together will involve a mixture of meditation, time for individual and group creative exploration, periods of silent contemplation and space to just enjoy being in the natural nurturing environment that is the Wangapeka.
The retreat facilitators are committed to a style of facilitating which values collaboration. They have many years of experience in meditation and are part of the dharmasphere collective based in Nelson.
For more information and to register .... Creative Awakening
April 2021
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Peace in the Park
In collaboration with Nelson Buddhist Centre, Nelson Insight Meditation, and Mindful Living Nelson. Sunday April 11th, 10:00am to 12:00pm, ANZAC park, Nelson. Join us for a second year of gentle quietude and play in the midst of summer in the city. This summer brings together several local groups dedicated to peace. Bring your friends and whānau, chairs, blankets, water, sunscreen and cushions for comfort. Kids are welcome to play independently or join in when they wish. Dana/Koha. For further information please contact Duncan at dharmasphere108@gmail.com |
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Inner Wisdom and Penetrative Insight the Practice of White Manjusri with Bonni Ross
April 16th - May 14th At The Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre To those whose motivation to awaken for the benefit of all beings is strong and determined, this practice of the inner wisdom manifestation of Manjusri, the Bodhisattva embodiment of Transcendent Wisdom, is offered. |
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Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche, recognized as an emanation of this form of Manjusri (by Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, a venerated Nyingma master) inspired the founding of Wangapeka. This practice connects us directly to the blessing energy that imbues the Wangapeka land and supports the awakening of all who feel a sense of spiritual homecoming when they arrive there.
The retreat will be grounded in traditional sadhana practice, with the addition of the White Manjusri exercises, crafted by Rinpoche to directly address blocks or distortions of the energy body.
Maturity in Dharma Practice, particularly with Sadhana, and stable mental and physical health are needed to fully engage with the inner and outer rigour of this retreat.
For more information and to register .... Inner Wisdom and Penetrative Insight the Practice of White Manjusri
The retreat will be grounded in traditional sadhana practice, with the addition of the White Manjusri exercises, crafted by Rinpoche to directly address blocks or distortions of the energy body.
Maturity in Dharma Practice, particularly with Sadhana, and stable mental and physical health are needed to fully engage with the inner and outer rigour of this retreat.
For more information and to register .... Inner Wisdom and Penetrative Insight the Practice of White Manjusri
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