This course is taught by Wolfgang Greve
He is a student of Lama Choedak Rinpoche and a practicing meditator.
Calm Abiding Meditation (Samatha) allows us to release anxiety, stress and tension and increase happiness and well-being. Developed from traditional Buddhist mindfulness training techniques, this course teaches awareness of breath, posture, and feelings to improve our physical and mental health and helps us to transform negative situations and our negative states of mind. The real value of Calm Abiding (mindfulness) Meditation is in its application to everyday life. This course also offers a speech blessing practice to change undesirable habits in our internal dialogues and communication. “Meditation is a highly effective method of dealing with life’s challenges”. These teachings are based on the teachings of Lama Choedak Rinpoche, a Tibetan Meditation Master, who has been teaching meditation and Buddhist methods for many years in the West. This course is suitable for anyone wishing to develop greater peace of mind.
When: Starts on Tuesday, 3rd of September, 6pm-8pm and continues the
following Tuesdays till the22nd of October
Venue: Phuntsok Choeling Tibetan Buddhist Centre, 10 Herschell Street, Napier
Cost: $120.00 (this includes the ‘Taming the Elephant’s Mind” book by Lama Choedak Rinpoche,
This book is used during the course)
Dress comfortably and depending on the temperature you might want to bring a blanket or shawl.
Please note that in order to gain the full benefits of the teachings it is important to attend all sessions if possible. Registration is essential.
To register: email phuntsok.choeling@gmail.com, phone, or text 022-370-9697 Payments can be made into Phuntsok Choeling Bank Account 38-9005-0618097-00
(please reference with your name and CAM).
Phuntsok Choeling Calm Abiding Meditation Training & Practices
Meditation has a proven record in its ability to improve health, awaken happiness and give a clear perspective of life. It enables you to identify the real causes of unhappiness and recover from stress, anxiety and tension.
Calm Abiding meditation, also known as Samatha, is not a specifically Buddhist technique of meditation but is common to other spiritual traditions as well. Single-pointed concentrating on the breath or other suitable object of meditation is a natural process that helps you to focus better on ordinary tasks and make you become more relaxed and peaceful.
This Buddhist technique of mindfulness 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 an experienced teacher and a well-defined path.
Calm Abiding Meditation (Samatha) allows us to release anxiety, stress and tension and increase happiness and well-being. Developed from traditional Buddhist mindfulness training techniques, this course teaches awareness of breath, posture, and feelings to improve our physical and mental health and helps us to transform negative situations and our negative states of mind.
The real value of Calm Abiding (mindfulness) Meditation is in its application to everyday life.
This course also offers a speech blessing practice to change undesirable habits in our internal dialogues
and communication. “Meditation is a highly effective method of dealing with life’s challenges”.
This course is suitable for anyone wishing to develop greater peace of mind.
The 8-week course has been developed by Lama Choedak Rinpoche who has also trained all the instructors. The course outline includes:
WEEK 1: Introduction to Calm Abiding meditation Mindfulness of Body and the importance of posture Establishing a regular routine Dealing with pain
WEEK 2: Mindfulness of Feeling Qualified Rounds of Breathing Calmness and distraction
WEEK 3: Mindfulness of Feeling Befriending the breath Practical benefits of meditation – not just relaxation Mindfulness of Speech and the speech blessing Mantra of Manjushri
WEEK 4: Super-Qualified Round of Breathing Increasing the affinity with the breath/feelings Meditation, awareness and the path of purification
WEEK 5: Counting the breath Engaging life with mindfulness Letting go Mindfulness of Thought
WEEK 6: Five Obstacles to Calm Abiding meditation and their Eight Antidotes The moderate approach
WEEK 7: Nine stages of Taming the Elephant Mind
WEEK 8: Summary Mindfulness of Body and the importance of posture “Where to from here?”
Each year we hold an ANNUAL CALM ABIDING MEDITATION RETREAT with LAMA CHOEDAK RINPOCHE, scheduled for 3 days over Queens Birthday Weekend.
SPIRITUAL LEADER AND TEACHER: Lama Choedak Rinpoche is one of the few Tibetan meditation masters living in Australasia. He underwent a 3 ½ year solitary meditation retreat under the guidance of His Eminence Chogye Trizen Rinpoche and was sanctioned by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Rinpoche has been teaching in the west for more than 30 years and has a special interest and skills in making traditional Buddhist teachings more accessible to Westerners. Rinpoche is based in Canberra Australia and is the founder of the Rongton Buddhist Training College and is Spiritual Director of many Buddhist Centres around Australia and Phuntsok Choeling HB Buddhist Centre in New Zealand.
Lama Choedak Rinpoche continues to carry and tirelessly pass on the complete and authentic teachings of the Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism – a timeless treasure preserved unbroken and unadulterated until the present day.
Whether a retreat is residential or non-residential, it is an opportunity to withdraw from the matters of ordinary life and deepen your meditation practice with strong guidance and support. You may ask those questions that have arisen through your own daily practice as Rinpoche is available for one-on-one interviews at the end of each afternoon session.
