FREE Mindfulness Meditation Retreat (2018)

Will Barnes (Thabarwa Meditaiton Center); Dhr. Seven, Ananda M., Jen B., Wisdom Quarterly

Lake Elsinore view from the mountain that houses the Thabarwa Meditation Center (W)

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Past activities at Thabarwa Center

LAKE ELSINORE, California - Interested in a natural schedule of yoga stretches, group meditation sitting, and sharing? This will be the main focus.
 

What?

Start 2018 off with relaxation and growth. Meditators are invited to a fully accommodated respite and retreat at the beautiful ThaBarWa Buddhist Meditation Center USA. Bring yoga mat, toiletries, and warm clothes.

This is a two night/one day retreat. It will accommodate participants with free food, lodging, even transportation to the site. That's right. For those unable to commute, the retreat offers to drive you up.

When?

The retreat begins on Friday (Jan. 5, 2018) at 7:00 pm and ends at 1:00 pm on Sunday (Jan. 7, 2018). A light vegan/vegetarian breakfast will have been prepared for Saturday).

Where?

• Thabarwa Meditation Center USA
• 30751 Ortega Highway (photos)
• Lake Elsinore, CA 92530
• Contact: Will Barnes (meetup.com)

What good is the Dharma without practice?

This serene location has a temple, yoga room, dorms (male and female), outdoor space, a walking trail with the Cleveland National Forest a short drive away. It is situated up the mountain above Lake Elsinore with wonderful views of the water.

How?

A short questionnaire will be sent to everyone who RSVP's HERE (meetup.com for Thabarwa Nature Mindfulness and Detachment Group) and a liability waiver for the hosting site will need to be signed on arrival.

 

Meditators are housed and fed two light prepared vegan/vegetarian meals on Saturday along with light self-serve foods. This allows everyone to relax, learn, and share giving everyone the opportunity to be natural.

The kitchen is available to participants. So please bring juice and your favorite foods or anything you would like to drink, prepare, and possibly share. It's up to everyone attending! More

• ThaBarWa hopes to make this a monthly opportunity in conjunction with WQ's DHARMA MEDITATION INITIATIVE.

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• 5/10/2010: Natural Liberation: an Insight Meditation Retreat (5 nights) with Wes Nisker, Pascal Auclair, Nina Wise

• 5/10/2010: Meditation and Creativity: Making a Dharma Art Journal (5 nights) with Anna Douglas, Janice Gates (yoga)

• 5/16/2010: Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry (7 nights) with Sharda Rogell, Eugene Cash, Martin Aylward

• 5/16/2010: Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy & Love (7 nights) with Arinna Weisman, Jean Esther

• 5/24/2010: Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat (7 nights) with Anna Douglas, Howard Cohn, Mark Coleman

• 6/2/2010: Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong (7 nights) with Julie Wester, Phillip Moffitt, Debra Chamberlin-Taylor, Pascal Auclair, Franz Moeckl (qigong)

• 6/10/2010: Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat (LOTTERY) (9 nights) with Ajahn Sucitto, Ajahn (Sister) Metta

• 6/20/2010: Meditation and Yoga Retreat (7 nights) with Mark Coleman, Anna Douglas, Howard Cohn, Anne Cushman (yoga), Janice Gates (yoga)

• 6/28/2010: Living Dharma Study Retreat (7 nights) with Sally Clough Armstrong, Andrea Fella, Richard Shankman

• 6/28/2010: Mindfulness, Wise Speech, and Compassionate Communication (7 nights) with Donald Rothberg, Oren Sofer (NVC teacher)

• 7/2/2010: Vajrapani Insight Meditation Retreat (9 nights) with Mary Grace Orr, Gil Fronsdal, Noah Levine

• 7/7/2010: People of Color Meditation Retreat (LOTTERY) (7 nights) with Larry Yang, Gina Sharpe, Bhante Buddharakkhita, Anushka Fernandopulle

• 7/16/2010: Metta Retreat (7 nights) with Sally Clough Armstrong, James Baraz, Sharda Rogell, Anushka Fernandopulle, Selene Seltzer (qigong)

• 7/23/2010: Insight Meditation Retreat (LOTTERY) (9 nights) with Joseph Goldstein, Kamala Masters, Steve Armstrong

• 8/4/2010: Family Retreat (LOTTERY) (4 nights) with Ajahn Pasanno, Gil Fronsdal, Betsy Rose (music), Heather Sundberg

• 8/9/2010: Young Adults' Insight Meditation Retreat (6 nights) with Debra Chamberlin-Taylor, Marvin Belzer, Dori Langevin, Will Kabat-Zinn, Teja Bell (qigong)

• 8/16/2010: Concentration Retreat (9 nights) with Phillip Moffitt, Sally Clough Armstrong, Richard Shankman, Andrea Fella

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Los Angeles: insightla.org

Rare Dana for "Worthy" Teachers

An opportunity to make the most beneficial offering is now open to all. Dana (spiritually meritorious support) is being collected for a six-month meditation intensive.

It will be conducted by Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw, who has taught in America at the Forest Refuge (Insight Meditation Society) in Barre, Mas-sachusetts as well as in California and Florida, and worldwide. He has a remarkable international reputation making the Teachings of the Buddha available to all who seek it out. Many teachers famous in their own right have studied with him, such as Leigh Brasington, Joseph Goldstein, and numerous IMS teachers.

Wisdom Quarterly fully and without reservation endorses Pa Auk Sayadaw as the foremost Buddhist scholar-practitioner alive today. Wisdom Quarterly regards his personal instruction (if it can be found), and his books and the instruction of his eminent students, as the best available in the world. A few of these teachers include:

• Venerable nun Sayalay Susila (Malaysia)
• Ven. Dhammadipa (Europe and Asia)
• Ven. nun Sayalay Dipankara (Burma)
• Pascal Auclair (Massachussetts)
• Tina and Stephen Rasmussen (California)
• Shaila Catherine (California)
• Ven. U Jagara (Canada)

(It is enough to say that the Sayadaw and most of his teachers -- certainly those able to teach insight -- have complete and unshakable confidence in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha).

The Sayadaw was most recently teaching in Germany (Pagoda Pat Hue), but frequently teaches in Taiwan, Sri Lanka, and Burma to both Theravada and Mahayana practitioners alike. His public talks, retreat instructions, and scholarship are available (for FREE distribution) in several English books (PaAuk.org) and recorded talks (DharmaSeed.org). Download at no cost or find them in hard copy form from WAVE (Wisdom Audio-Visual Exchange), Buddha Educational Foundation (Taiwan), and elsewhere, also at no cost as a gift of Dharma.

• Resources: Books available free of charge

This advanced meditation program will be held in the Buddha's birthplace (Lumbini, Nepal) between December 2009 and May 2010. It is for specially identified bhikkhus (Buddhist monks) and sayalays (ten-precept Buddhist nuns).

Everyone, however, is welcome to support this unique undertaking by pledging to provide dana, which is extraordinarily meritorious with recipients of this caliber. All gifts are strictly to cover the following:

1. Allowable requisites including robes for the Sayadaw (teacher) and meditating monks and nuns
2. Medicines as needed and allowable according to monastic discipline (vinaya).
3. Winter necessities including blankets, socks, hot water, and other cold weather items.
4. General including visas and transportation expenses for the Sayadaw and monastics.
5. Meditation facilities including lease of premises, electricity, water, dwellings, and logistical arrangements.
6. Preparation of premises including meditation mats, bedroom furnishings, and so on.
7. Food for six months (breakfast and lunch only).

To pledge support, kindly contact Brother Lim Poh Chuan at limpc2010@yahoo.com or limpc2010@gmail.com providing your name and contact information.

By the power of your meritorious deeds (karma), may your wholesome wishes come true for the ultimate attainment of the highest truth, nirvana.

• What-Buddha-taught.net: AUDIO - VIDEO

RETREAT: Ven. Dhammadipa

“Ven. Dhammadipa is a highly gifted meditation teacher who has trained in both samatha and vipassana meditation under eminent teachers of Sri Lanka and Burma. He is skilled in teaching both westerners and Asians”

-- Bhikkhu Bodhi

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Currently giving retreats internationally: United States, Canada, Taiwan, Malaysia, and India. US locations include Vancouver, Toronto (2/09), Ohio, Atlanta Georgia, Lansing Michigan, West Lafayette Indiana, and San Jose (3/16)...then onto Taiwan, Malaysia, and India (12/09). Info: Gary at netherwood26@yahoo.com.

Born in Czechoslovakia and fluent in eight languages, Ven. Dhammadipa is a world-renowned meditation teacher, with a deep understanding of meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana traditions. Exposed to Zen and Tibetan Buddhism in Czechoslovakia, he has lived and studied in various Asian countries. Over the past ten years, Ven. Dhammadipa has taught meditation at Western and Asian monasteries and universities around the world.

• In 1987, he first received ordination as a Theravada monk under Ven. Nanarama in Sri Lanka.
• In 1989, he also received ordination as a Mahayana monk at Hsi Lai Temple, Los Angeles.
• In 1996, he practiced meditation with the world's foremost meditation master, Ven. Pa Auk Tawya Sayadaw, in Burma and is considered by the Sayadaw to be the first Western disciple qualified to teach meditation.

5 Day Anāpānā Sati Meditation Retreat
Ven. Dhammadipa will lead retreat participants in breath meditation practice (anapana sati), as taught by the Buddha. Breath meditation leads to tranquil mental states (samatha) and direct seeing of the Dharma (vipassana). Retreat participants will practice sitting and walking meditation, supported by the personal guidance of Ven. Dhammadipa through individual and group interviews. This is a golden opportunity for the serious student of the Dharma to practice alongside a seasoned master and to experience the liberating benefits of the Buddha's teachings.

Location: Toronto Mahavihara Society

4698 Kingston Rd, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada M1E 2P9
DATES: February 5-9, 2009
Times: 8:45 am-7:00 pm (refreshments but no lunch provided)
Please PRE-REGISTER

Contact: torontodhamma@gmail.com

Email: irenepandit@rogers.com or kpandit91@rogers.com

Telephone: 905-790-1146 or 416-208-9276

Ven. Dhammadipa Retreats

The renowned expert is scheduled to give numerous retreats beginning today in New Mexico, onward to Vancouver and Toronto, Ohio, Atlanta Georgia, Lansing Michigan, West Lafyette Indiana, and culminating in San Jose on March 16 for a 21 day retreat before setting off for Taiwan. More information: Gary at netherwood26@yahoo.com or Rev. Sudharma at baucym@aol.com.

“Ven. Dhammadipa is a highly
gifted meditation teacher who
has trained in both samatha and
vipassana meditation under eminent
teachers of Sri Lanka and
Burma. He is skilled in teaching
both westerners and Asians.”
--Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi

Born in Czechoslovakia, Ven. Dhammadipa is a world-renowned meditation teacher, with
a deep understanding of meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana traditions. In
1987, he received traditional Theravada ordination in Sri Lanka, where he practiced
meditation under Ven. Sri Nanarama Mahathera.

In 1989, he received ordination as a
Mahayana monk at Hsi Lai Temple, Los Angeles.

In 1996, he practiced meditation with the world's foremost meditation master, Ven. Pa
Auk Sayadaw in Myanmar and is considered by the Sayadaw to be the first Western disciple qualified to teach meditation.

Over the past ten years, Ven. Dhammadipa has taught meditation at Western and Asian monasteries and universities
around the world.

5 Day Anāpānā Sati Meditation Retreat

with Ven. Dhammadipa

Ven. Dhammadipa will lead retreatants in breath meditation
practice (anapana sati), as taught by the Buddha. Breath
meditation leads to tranquil mental states (samatha) and

direct seeing of the Dhamma (vipassana). Retreatants will
practice sitting and walking meditation, supported by the personal
guidance of Ven. Dhammadipa through individual and
group interviews. This will be a golden opportunity for the serious
student of Dhamma to practice alongside a seasoned
meditation master, to experience the wonderful mind-liberating
benefits of this ancient meditation practice.

Location: Toronto Mahavihara Society
4698 Kingston Rd, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada M1E 2P9

DATES: February 5-9, 2009

Times: 8:45am-7:00pm
Lunch not provided--please bring you own, tea provided

Please PRE-REGISTER

Main Contact: torontodhamma@gmail.com
Additional contacts: irenepandit@rogers.com or kpandit91@rogers.com
Telephone: 905-790-1146 or 416-208-9276