° Zen Club Special Event ZEN AND CREATIVITY Friday 22nd September 2017 @little Bangkok Meditation Center, Ekkamai “Zen and Creativity”: a dharma talk by Zen master Gil Alon Friday, 22 September 7:00 pm— Ekamai Meditation Center Zen has a long tradition of being connected with the arts, especially poetry, music, theater, and visual arts. …
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Zen Club : September
° Zen Club Meeting #11 True Self and Original Nature Saturday 2nd September 2017 @little Bangkok Meditation Center, Ekkamai Zen club meets more or less monthly. You don’t need to be experienced – it is for anyone and everyone interested in exploring some of the tenets of Zen Buddhism. 1:30-3:30pm at the little Bangkok Meditation Center, Ekkamai There is …
Meditation for Challenging Times: Dhamma as Refuge
• Meditation for Challenging Times • 1.30-3.30pm Sunday 6th August, 2017 @ the little Bangkok Meditation Centre, Ekkamai • Overview: Finding Refuge in Times of Uncertainty: Where can we place our trust, faith and hope? – This is the fifth meeting in this series. The first ones have gone well, with group discussion deepening our understanding of the …
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A. Jayasaro Dhamma talk August 2017
° ____________________ Trip to Pak Chong for Dhamma Talk with Ajahn Jayasaro Sunday August 20th, 2017 —————————— Overview: ธรรมะ โดย พระอาจารย์ ชยสาโร We will be taking some minivans for a day trip up to Pak Chong to see Ajahn Jayasaro on Sunday 20th August 2017 for a dhamma talk in English: Ajahn Jayasaro is probably Thailand’s most famous Western Monk, …
Meditation Course week 6: Consciousness for a meditator
To a meditator the experience of consciousness sidesteps the body/mind duality, and the idealist/materialist philosophies. Seeing the nature of the mind directly changes your view of your self. Below find the full video from Week Six of the Meditation course 2017 The reason for posting here is that the English subtitles are given below and …
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Course in Tibetan Buddhism – with Dr Georges Dreyfus
—∼— A Course in Consciousness and Buddhism WHO’s THERE? with Dr Georges Dreyfus Saturdays, for 5 weeks from 1st July Overview: We’re holding a new course on Buddhism and modern consciousness research, led by one of our great Bangkok resources Dr Georges Dreyfus. Periodically it’s great to go into these topics in real depth – more than we ever …
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Special Zen Club Event: Dhamma talk with Konin Melissa Cardenas
∇ Zen Club Special: Dhamma talk with Konin Melissa Cardenas little Bangkok Meditation Center, Ekkamai Sat. 24th June, 1:30-3:30pm Overview: This month’s Zen Club features a special guest speaker from San Francisco Zen Center Saturday 24th June: 1:30-3:30pm, Ekkamai Center Event is free of charge – donation to visiting eacher’s travelling expenses appreciated No …
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Refuge in Uncertainty – Meditation for Challenging Times group meets
• Meditation for Challenging Times • 1.30-3.30pm Sunday 28 May, 2017 @ the little Bangkok Meditation Centre, Ekkamai • Overview: Third meeting in this format and topic. The first ones went well, with group discussion leading to practical means to keeping a practice going during challenging times – political, personal, physical … For meditators interested in coming …
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Qi Gong + meditation: live with Marisa, April
• Mindfulness in Motion Inner Spirals and Dragon Forms Live with Marisa Thursdays: April 20th, 27th and May 4th • Overview We are back for two live dates with our Qi Gong teacher Marisa for 3 sessions in April and May. Inner spirals and Dragon forms – spiraling in new ways (for us) Events are in the spacious Rojana Center, Sukhumvit 23. …
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Zen Club, Bangkok: April meeting
° Zen Club Meeting #10 Zen in Stories and Poems Sunday 23rd April 2017 @little Bangkok Meditation Center, Ekkamai Zen club meets more or less monthly. You don’t need to be experienced – it is for anyone and everyone interested in exploring some of the tenets of Zen Buddhism. 1:30-3:30pm at the little Bangkok Meditation Center, Ekkamai …
Meditation for Challenging Times: April 30
• Meditation for Challenging Times • 1.30-3.30pm Sunday 30th April, 2017 @ the little Bangkok Meditation Centre, Ekkamai • Overview: Third meeting in this format and topic. The first ones went well, with group discussion leading to practical means to keeping a practice going during challenging times – political, personal, physical … For meditators interested in coming …
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Meditation Course week 3: video and transcript
∞ Meditation Course Week 3 Samatha-Vipassana Rojana Center, Bangkok, 2017 Video and transcript from the meditation course this year. Part of the reason for posting the full transcript is to make it searchable by content – i.e. for most videos you can only search by the title of the video, and not by what is …
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Zen Club: Zen 101 – What is Zen?
° Zen Club Meeting #9 Zen 101 – What is Zen? Sunday 12th March 2017 @little Bangkok Meditation Center, Ekkamai Zen club meets more or less monthly. You don’t need to be experienced – it is for anyone and everyone interested in exploring some of the tenets of Zen Buddhism. 1-3:30pm at the little Bangkok Meditation Center, Ekkamai There …
Meditation Course week 1: notes and video
∈∋ Notes and Video week one of the 2017 Meditation Course THE MIND IS A MACHINE Feb-March 2017 This is the recording from our first session in this year’s meditation course. Video editing takes a long time, so we’ll be falling further and further behind – the only way to keep up is to join …
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Zen Club #8
° Zen Club Meeting #8 Zen and Everyday Mind Sunday 19th February 2017 @little Bangkok Meditation Center, Ekkamai Zen club meets more or less monthly. You don’t need to be experienced – it is for anyone and everyone interested in exploring some of the tenets of Zen Buddhism. 1-3:30pm at the little Bangkok Meditation Center, Ekkamai There is no …
Meditation for Challenging Times
• Meditation for Challenging Times • 1.30-3.30pm Sunday 12th Feb. 2017 @ the little Bangkok Meditation Centre, Ekkamai • Overview: For meditators interested in coming together to consciously use their practice to help them learn from, and respond wisely to, the rapidly changing world in which we now find ourselves living. With former Buddhist psychotherapist …
Ajahn Brahm’s Grand Dhamma talk, Bangkok
• MEDITATION IS EASY, MEDITATION IS DIFFICULT Ajahn Brahm’s Grand talk, Bangkok • @The Grand Sukhumvit Hotel, Suk. Soi 6 200 meters from Nana BTS Station Wednesday 22nd Feb. 6:30-8:30pm • Meditation is Easy, Meditation is Difficult: Ajahn Brahm explains why we should stop worrying about meditation, and just get on with doing it Overview: Ajahn Brahm …
The Elements of Meditation – Med. Course 2017
• The Elements of Meditation Topic for 2017 Med. Course • Rojana Center (Asoke area) 1-3pm Saturdays, Feb-Mar • Since people come and go so much in Bangkok, it makes it difficult to approach meditation systematically. How does it work step by step? The Meditation Course this year puts all the different aspects of meditation …
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Qi Gong live with Marisa – 2 sessions Jan/Feb
• Mindfulness in Motion Qi Gong for a Happy Heart Live with Marisa Thrs. Jan. 26th and Thrs. 2nd Feb. 2017 • Overview We are back for two live dates with our Qi Gong teacher Marisa for 2 sessions – last Thursday of January and the first Thursday of February. We’ll be starting a whole new routine – Qi Gong for a …
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Meditation Course 2017
• A Course in Meditation • Saturdays @ Rojana Center Feb-March 2017 with Pandit Bhikkhu Overview: For seven weeks we will hold a systematic course in mindfulness meditation, at the spacious Rojana Dhamma Center, near Asoke. Meditate with bagels! Homemade bagels and foodstuffs from our local feedpoint bakery will be available each week You don’t need to …