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AUSTRALIA
Study retreat – TAKE PART ONLINE
Secular dharma and ethical living – how to live in a world in crisis
from 3 to 10 December 2023
Stephen Batchelor, Winton Higgins, and Lenorë Lambert
Over the week, participants will explore through talks and discussion how the dharma taught by the Buddha 2,500 years ago can help provide the ethical perspectives and practices we need to engage effectively with the various interconnected crises our world faces in the 21st century – economic, environmental, social, psychological, and spiritual.
Taking part online by Zoom, you can follow as much of the retreat schedule as your inclination and circumstances permit from wherever you are on this planet.
For more info and to register click here.
DHARMA TALK
Buddhist modernism and secular Buddhism
On 5 October 2023, Winton Higgins gave a talk to New York Insight on Buddhist modernism and secular Buddhism.
You can read it on the Secular Buddhist Network website here or download a PDF to read and share here.
The talk was given during the New York Insight online course, ‘At the crossroads of secular and socially engaged Buddhism’.
SPECIAL OFFER
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Get 15% off the paperback version of Linda Modaro and Nelly’s Kaufer book by using code Nov23gdy.
This offer runs from 1 through 30 November 2023.
DHARMA BOOK ONLINE READING GROUP
Two places available
There are just two places remaining on our upcoming What is this? book reading group.
It starts on Sunday 21 January 2024 and the group will meet once a week.
Gaia House teacher Tony O’Connor will be facilitating the group, and Martine Batchelor will be present in the final session.
If you can’t make it this time around, or are in a time zone that makes it hard to take part in this group, and you’d be interested in a reading group at a future date or a different time of day let us know.
Download an excerpt from What is this? here and use the code MBSBten to get 10% off What is this? in paper and digital formats from our online store.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Two one-day workshops – in person and online
This month Martine Batchelor will run two one-day workshops at the Buddhist Library in Camperdown, Sydney, Australia.
※ Knowing how it feels
– mindfulness of feeling tone
Saturday 25 November 2023
Exploring mindfulness of feeling tones, the second foundation of the practice of mindfulness, we become aware of feeling tones as they arise extremely quickly and how they have a profound impact on our behaviour.
※ Creatively engaging with strong emotions
– through the lenses of the three characteristics
Sunday 26 November 2023
The three central insights into impermanence, dukkha and not-self offer powerful doorways that connect us with a sense of stability, wellbeing, and confidence. When we explore them in meditation practice and the light of our own life situation as we search for balance in challenging times, they can be really helpful.
Get more information on both these workshops and register here.
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WELLINGTON, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
One Mindful Breath Spring daylong meditation retreat
Sunday 12 November 2023 • 8.45am to 4.00pm
The Home of Compassion, Rhine Street, Island Bay, Wellington
Retreats provide a chance to step away from the busyness of everyday life, find calmness, and deepen your meditation practice. Everyone is welcome and the meditation practices offered will be secular, i.e. non-religious.
Get more information and register here.
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Ngā manaakitanga,
Ramsey Margolis ❖ Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
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