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A place to heal the mind, body and heart.
With inner peace, comes world peace
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You're invited to our upcoming events at the Metta Centre. All talks are open to the public, and your RSVP would assist us in preparing for the event by sending an email to: contact@mettacentre.com.
All our events are free unless otherwise stated, though your generous donations will help us continue to provide free services to the community.
We encourage you to check our website or Facebook page regularly for any updates, changes, cancellations or announcements.
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Monthly Mindfulness Practice for children, parents and adults facilitated by Sister Emerald and Sister Steadiness
Cost: By Donation | BYO Lunch
Location: Metta Centre
Course Details
30 September from 2pm – 5pm
- Mindfulness practice (for kids and adults)
- Qigong practice: Painless shoulders & back
1 October from 2pm – 5pm
- Course for adults on Mindfulness Tools for Daily Nourishment
- Healing Breath Four Seasons Qigong
8 October from 9.30 – 12.30pm
- Sand Meditation (kids)
- Loving Speech & Deep Listening (adults)
- Qigong practice: Painless Sitting Meditation Posture
11 November from 9.30am – 12.30pm
- Tangerine Meditation (kids)
- Mindful Eating (adults)
- Qigong practice: Painless Sitting Meditation Posture
10 December from 9.30am – 12.30pm
- Hugging Meditation (kids)
- Beginning Anew Practice (adults)
- Qigong practice: Painless Sitting Meditation Posture
These monthly practice sessions are open to all ages, and parents with their children can practice the Dharma together. In these practical sessions, children and adults can discover ways to bring mindfulness and kindness into each other’s lives, into their hearts, and into their home. In this way, we can find our way back to our true home.
The sessions will be facilitated by Sister Emerald and Sister Steadiness, both students of Ven Thich Nhat Hanh.
For parents with children aged 5 years and under, please ensure that at least one parent is to be present with their child or children.
As children and adults may have specific needs, please bring packed vegetarian lunches for yourself and any children coming with you, if you wish to participate in lunch.
To Register
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Simplicity & Surrender: an evening of practice with
Noon Baldwin, co-founder of Ekuthuleni Retreat Place in France
Friday 29 September 2017
6.30pm for 7pm start to 9pm
Cost: By Donation
Location: Metta Centre
“Ekuthuleni” is an African term meaning “Place of peace”. The quality of this peace is a cleared, warm quality of quietness. In that place of peace, one can value – and practice – simplicity and surrender.
Join us in an evening with Noon Baldwin, co-founder of the Ekuthuleni Retreat Place in France. The Ekuthuleni Retreat Place runs meditation and eco retreats in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, led by Noon and other Buddhist teachers. To find out more about the retreat centre visit: http://ekuthuleni.wixsite.com/ retreats
Noon was born in Africa, Zambia, and grew up there, also in Penge, (south London), then France. She spent a lot of time as a child in the bush (and later France) in the hills, touching into connection with nature. With a wish to engage in the world more, Noon's early adult life was an active one: as an international street performer, circus artist and teacher living in troupes and on the road. She often worked questioning social norms, teaching marginalised groups, bringing, through circus, body awareness, trust and reconnection. At 35, still a gypsy, Noon allowed her love of Dharma to come through, practicing and serving in Dharma centres for 12 years in which the last five include offering guidance at both the Dharmagiri hermitage and Ekuthuleni.
To Register
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How I helped End Two Wars:
an evening of practice with Tony Lenart
6 October 2017
6.30pm for 7pm start to 9pm
Cost: By Donation
Location: Metta Centre
An inspiring story of the power of love to overcome hatred, and the ability we all have to make a positive difference in the world.
Tony Lenart was the Deputy CEO of St Vincent de Paul Society, and the Australian Chairman of the Hunger Project, and he has always been interested in humanitarian causes. He was particularly concerned that millions of people were dying from poverty or as the result of rebel wars in Africa, but like most people, felt there was little he could do personally to significantly impact the situation.
However, he had been teaching leadership and conflict resolution in Australia, and wondered what would happen if he took these trainings to Africa and worked with African leaders, including rebels, and encouraged them to be great leaders who leave a positive legacy, and helped them to find peaceful alternatives to conflicts. He had no idea if he would succeed, yet ended up working with Vice Presidents, Generals, and the heads of rebel armies fighting against them.
In D.R. Congo he trained the top 178 rebels who were controlling half the country. They applied many of his teachings and ended what had become known as “The Great War of Africa”. And in Uganda his mediation training led to thousands of rebels laying down their arms and returning to mainstream society.
Come and hear this fascinating story of the power of love – and what is possible for all of us if we approach our enemies (whether rebels, colleagues, spouses, or even our own inner demons) with compassion and understanding.
To view interviews with the rebels, and an African TV show on Tony’s work, please visit www.youtube.com/ToTransformConflict
For more information, contact: Andrea Maria Sims (m) 0423 778 098,
(e) andrea@PeaceAndProsperity.org
To Register
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Buddhist Survival Guide: A session on surviving life’s ups and downs by Venerable Akāliko
Friday 17 November 2017
6.30pm for 7pm start to 9pm
Cost: By Donation
Location: Metta Centre
Sometimes life is good but sometimes it seems full of problems. When met with happiness, sadness, gain and loss, how can we maintain our balance amid the extremes life throws at us?
Join Venerable Akāliko for a guided meditation and discussion on worldly conditions (lokadhammas) which the Buddha taught to develop the wisdom we need to cope with life’s vicissitudes.
About the Teacher
Venerable Akāliko is a monk in the Theravadan forest tradition with over twenty year’s experience practicing mediation and studying Buddhism. Venerable Akāliko’s teachings bring the Buddha’s timeless wisdom to today’s problems, helping people find peace and happiness in their lives.
He currently resides at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine, Western Australia, and will be giving this talk at Metta Centre in his short visit to Sydney.
To Register
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Meeting the Mind Meditation Course
by Venerable Dr. Vimokkha Medhino
3 – 5 November 2017
Various times, no overnight stay
Cost: By Donation
Location: Metta Centre
Ven. Vimokkha returns to the Metta Centre from Thailand again for three sessions over three days, exploring a “Pragmatic Approach to the Nature of Mind”.
Ven. Vimokkha is the Abbot of Wat Pippaliwanaram, with a M.A. (Buddhist Studies) and Ph.D.(Buddhist Studies) from Mahachulalongkorn University (MCU). He has an extensive experience in teaching insight meditation internationally.
Ven. Vimokkha’s book, “The Development of Mindfulness for Insight Meditation” builds on his pragmatic approach to the development of mindfulness.
Course Program
Friday 3 Nov: 6.30pm – 9pm
Saturday 4 Nov: 5pm – 7pm
Sunday 5 Nov: 2pm – 5pm
Ven. Vimokkha’s other Sydney events
Tuesday 31 October: 19:00 – 21:00 Talk at Buddhist Library
Wednesday 1 November: 14:00 – 15:00 Talk at Sydney University Society (UNIBODHI)
Thursday 2 November: 16:30 – 18:00 Talk at Sydney University Society (UNIBODHI)
Saturday 11 November: 9:30 – 16:00 Retreat at Australian Centre
Sunday 12 November: 9:30 – 16:00 Retreat at Australian Centre
Dates and times are subject to change, so for the most up to date information please see:
https://mindfulnesssydney.wordpress.com/
To Register
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From Wounds to Wisdom: a course on healing
By Venerable Wellawatte Seelagawesi Thero
4 November 2017
12.30pm for 1pm start to 4pm
Cost: By Donation
Location: Metta Centre
When there is a wound on our body, we often tend to it, but when there is a wound in our hearts, we may dismiss it or not tend to it as we don’t know how to do so. Yet every day, we store emotional pain in our hearts and harbour harmful thoughts in our mind, that aren’t properly acknowledged and cared for.
In this half day course with Buddhist teacher, Venerable Wellawatte Seelagawesi, we will explore ways to understand our suffering, and ways to transform wounds to wisdom.
Venerable Seelagawesi is the resident monk and spiritual guide at the Nissarana International Meditation Center in Kandy, Sri Lanka. He has spent numerous years teaching, healing, and guiding practitioners on the noble path at the Nissarana Centre, as well as giving talks and retreats internationally.
This course will take place during Venerable Seelagawesi’s short trip to Australia from his usual residence in Sri Lanka, and therefore we welcome all his students and supporters to join us this half-day course on healing and transformation.
To Register
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Holistic Wellbeing Course
By Sister Emerald
Each Tuesday evening from
5 September to 10 October 2017
6.30pm – 8pm
Cost: By Donation
Location: Metta Centre
The Buddha taught four kinds of nutriments required for any living being to grow and maintain life. This teaching is most succinctly explained in the Sutra on the Four Kinds of Nutriments, utilising four striking metaphors.
The four nutriments are: food that is edible; food of sense impressions; food of volition; and food of consciousness.
Join us in this 6-week holistic wellbeing course as we explore how these four nutriments supports our wellbeing holistically in body, heart and mind. In each session, Sister Emerald will give a teaching based on the Sutra and lead us in meditation.
To Register
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