Calm Abiding Meditation
Meditation has a proven record in its ability to improve health, awaken happiness and give a clear perspective on life. It enables you to identify the real causes of unhappiness and recover from stress, anxiety and tension.
Calm Abiding Meditation, also known as Shamatha, is not specifically a Buddhist technique of meditation but is common to other spiritual traditions as well. Single pointed concentration on the breath or other suitable object of meditation is a natural process that helps you to focus better on ordinary tasks and enables you to become more relaxed and peaceful.
This Buddhist technique of meditation has attracted much interest from modern scientific fields such as psychotherapy and cognitive behaviour as well as sport training.
To learn to meditate you need a teacher and a well defined path!
Introduction to Calm Abiding Class at Rongton Buddhist Centre commences Tuesday 7th February 2012 7 - 8.30 pm with Ven. Jamyang
This 8 week course involves a sequential set of teaching sessions of approximately 1 and a half hours each week and provides a complete introduchtion to help you establish a daily meditation practice. If you are already an experienced meditator you will come away with a good understanding of the principle characteristics and finer points of the Buddhist approach to single-pointed concentration.
Teacher: Ven. Jamyang has attended teachings on Calm Abiding by Lama Choedak Rinpoche since 2008 including the new teacher training course held as part of the Annual Calm Abiding Retreat held at SIBA.
Contact: Rongton Buddhist Centre 07 3352 4730 or email rongtonbrisbane@gmail.com
Calm Abiding Meditation
at Brisbane Square Library Theatrette
commences Thursday 2nd February 2012
6pm - 7.30pm with Ven. Tsultim (Note: please arrive by 5.45 pm for easy access)
Why do I need to learn how to meditate?
In this day and age one could be forgiven for thinking, that my life doesn't seem to be my own. The wonder of modern technology has brought us many amazing things, but not necessarily peace of mind. As soon as we feel bored of depressed, many of us plug in and tune out. This may be okay for a while, but generally it can just leave us feeling unsatisfied and somewhat bewildered. So tuning is good, but tuning out so much, is a bit of a problem. Tuning in through meditation on the other hand is like developing muscles for the mind. Nothing is not worthy of our attention. By learning how to meditate we improve our relationship to everything we do. This is not only good for our-selves but good for others. Good for everything. This course will run on an eight week cycle. But
BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL
Teacher: Ven. Lekshe Tsultim has been a meditator for 20 years and has attended the Annual Calm Abiding Meditation Retreat held at SIBA since 2001, also having completed the Calm Abiding training course. He facilitates the training of new meditation teachers at SIBA the national Sakya Retreat Centre in Gippsland, Victoria. Tsultim's teacher is meditation master Lama Choedak Rinpoche.
Contact: Tsultim on 07 3352 4730 or email : rongtonbrisbane@gmail.com
