° 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 …
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Qi Gong & Mindfulness with Marisa, August
• Mindfulness in Motion Qi Gong for Vitality Live with Marisa Thursdays: August 17 and 24 • Overview A double dose of the sparkling charisma of Marisa – leading Qi gong and meditation live this August. Events are in the spacious Rojana Center, Sukhumvit 23. 6:30 gather at the Rojana Center (refreshments served) 7:00-8:00 Qi Gong 8:00-8:30 mindfulness meditation There’s no …
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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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Tibetan Book of the Dead – talk with Dr Georges Dreyfus
—∼— A Course in Tibetan Buddhism: DEATH AND REINCARNATION IN TIBETAN BUDDHISM with Dr Georges Dreyfus Saturday 29th July Overview: For the last few weeks we ran a Course in Tibetan Buddhism – this week is the final class, and discusses that most enigmatic of topics – death and reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism. Don’t worry if …
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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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Zen Club, Bangkok: May meeting
° Zen Club Meeting #11 Oneness Saturday 20th May 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 no charge for …
Meditate, Mondays ‘freestyle’
⊆⊇ For all meditators, of all lineages ° Step Inside your Mind ‘freestyle’ meditation Mondays ° @The Little Bangkok Meditation Center, Ekkamai _______________________________ Everyone who meditates, or would like to, is invited to this weekly gathering. It’s purely ‘freestyle’ – it does not matter what lineage of meditation you come from. We gather, chat, sit …
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 …
Buddhist Psycho’s : The Buddha and the Ego – April 1st (no joke!)
• Buddhist Psychos are back Saturday 1st April 1:00-3:00pm • THE BUDDHA AND THE EGO • Overview: Psychologists, Buddhists and meditators (and anyone else interested) are invited to join the discussion Saturday 1st April from 1-3 pm. This is a totally informal group, and we do not profess to be experts! 1:00 pm meet at the Rojana Dhamma Center, …
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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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Beautiful Mind – week four of the 2017 meditation course
∞ Meditation Course Week 4 Beautiful Mind Rojana Center, Bangkok, 2017 Video and transcript from the meditation course this year – fourth part Part of the reason for posting the full transcript is to make the video searchable by content – i.e. for most videos you can only search by the title of the video, and …
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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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Coming Home to Yourself – meditation course wk 2 video + transcript
• Coming Home to Yourself week 2 of the 2017 meditation course, Bangkok video and transcript • transcript: OK … so The end of the session today I will introduce another extra practice which you can take up optionally so your 20 minutes a day that’s mandatory but what you do during that 20 minutes …
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Meditation for Challenging Times
• Meditation for Challenging Times • 1.30-3.30pm Sunday 19th March 2017 @ the little Bangkok Meditation Centre, Ekkamai • Overview: Second meeting in this format and topic. The first one went well, with group discussion leading to practical means to keeping a practice going during challenging times – political, personal, physical … For meditators interested in …
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 …