June 2010 – Meditation
11. – 13. June 2010
The Heart of Meditation
led by
Martine Batchelor
MARTINE BATCHELOR praktizierte zehn Jahre als Zen-Nonne im Songgwangsa-Tempel bei Zen-Meister Kusan in Korea. 1985 kehrte sie nach Europa zurück und gründete gemeinsam mit anderen Lehrern im Südwesten Englands das Sharpham College of Buddhist Studies and Contemparary Enquiry. Sie ist eine der leitenden Lehrerinnen am Gaia House Meditation Center in Devon, Südengland. Sie ist die Autorin von «Meditation For Life», deutsche Ausgabe: «Meditation», «The Path of Compassion», «Women in Korean Zen» und des neu erscheinenden «Let Go: a Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits», deutsche Ausgabe: Innere Grenzen Sprengen. Martine lehrt Meditation weltweit. Heute lebt sie mit ihrem Mann Stephen Batchelor in Frankreich. www.martinebatchelor.org
THE HEART OF MEDITATION
In meditation, concentration brings you back to awareness and enables you to be more spacious in your actions and reactions. Like a room full of furniture, our mental and emotional processes are often cluttered and busy. The aim of concentration is to help the mind feel as free as empty space. Enquiry makes you curious and playful. It prompts you to question what is going on, to ask yourself about the causes of whatever you are feeling, thinking and doing, and what the effects of these feelings, thoughts and actions are likely to be. Meditation is a journey of self-discovery. However, having awareness means more than blankly observing. On the contrary, awareness is about creatively engaging with your experience as it arises. When you have a thought, a feeling or a sensation, when you encounter an object, a person or a situation, you meet and know them fully. Instead of passively submitting, lost in your contact with experience and blind to what is really going on, you engage actively and respond creatively.
During this retreat we will explore meditation and how we can cultivate it in our daily life. We will use meditative tools found in Zen and Vipassana to develop further wisdom and compassion. This retreat will help us to make meditation our own so that it can become the ground of our life, and bring more spaciousness and alertness to all that we live and do.
This retreat is suitable for all levels of meditation experience.
Schedules include guided reflections, Dharma talks, personal and group discussions.
Cost/Date:
Fri. 11. June, 6:00 pm - Sun. 13. June, 2:00 pm
Seminar fee: your generous donation (DANA)
House fee: € 148.-
Please bring:
comfortable and warm clothes, walking shoes, slippers
Sign up & Organisation:
Oberpfalz Zen Zentrum
Egerlaenderstrasse 5
D-92665 Altenstadt a.d. Waldnaab
Tel.: +49 (0) 9602 – 618609
eMail: info@oberpfalzZen.de
Venue:
Privatpension Alte Schule
Steinlohe 35
D-93464 Tiefenbach/Oberpfalz (twin-sharing accommondation)
Alte Schule in Tiefenbach (Oberpfalz)
