Insight Meditation - Brisbane

DharmaCloud is an Insight Meditation group which presents and supports Western Buddhist teachings. It runs occasional Insight Meditation courses, practice days and retreats. It has been running Buddhist programs since 1995. An overview of past retreats and workshops is listed here. DharmaCloud also provides a listing of other Insight Meditation groups and retreats in Australia through the www.dharma.org.au website.

A related weekly Insight Meditation group, the Heart Insight group, currently meets on Thursday nights in Woolloongabba, and on Sunday nights online. 



2024 Seeing That Frees:
Insight Ways of Looking, Dependent Arising and Emptiness practices

DharmaCloud and Sydney Insight Meditators online course

1 May to 7 July 2024
21 July to 22 September 2024
 
These will be  a once-a-week online course for people who have a mindfulness practice and who  ideally have done some retreats. They will run for 10 weeks with one gap week in the middle. The courses will cover practices given by Rob Burbea (1965 - 2020), the pioneering and much loved Gaia House resident teacher.  These practice are designed to help understand the deeper teachings of the Buddha. There’s a framework to understand the Path that will be outlined over the weeks as the course progresses. We’ll  cover basic samadhi;  practices that lead to us being less bound up;  how we can use insights that might otherwise fade away; ways of working with the three characteristic (dukkha, anicca, anatta) and understandings of emptiness/shunyata and dependent arising.

The program is based on the first half of Rob Burbea’s book Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising. The aim of the course is to give people familiarity with  a range of meditation practices so they can choose what works best for them.

Teacher: Victor von der Heyde. Victor has been involved in dharma practice for over 35 years and has taken teaching roles since the mid 1990s. He was a student of Rob Burbea from 2012 to 2020.

Format of each session. There will be a check-in period in each session, generally related to the practices given in the previous week. There’ll be a talk, around 30 minutes, then time for questions and discussion. Each session is expected to last between an hour and an hour and a half. There will  be some reading sent each week, but always less than 15 pages.

Cost: There is a $30 registration cost. Towards the end there’ll be an opportunity to give dana. 

Continuity / Expectations: The course will develop themes that build on each other week by week. It’s best if you try not to miss sessions. The course is meant for people who have the time and inclination to practise the meditations between sessions.

Course times: 7:30 - 9:00 pm on a Sunday evenings, NSW time.

 For further information email
 



The DharmaCloud Library is currently at the Bodhi Chan Meditation Centre. It's available on their practice days and at other times by arrangement.

There are audio recordings of the 2012 DharmaCloud retreat led by Stephen and Martine Batchelor at the Sine Cera Retreat Centre in Northern NSW. The retreat was called Self, Consciousness and Namarupa: A Study Retreat

DharmaCloud email list: We have an email list for people who would like to receive occasional emails - very occasional - of DharmaCloud events. This is a separate from the list for the Australia-wide quarterly Insight Meditation News. If you'd like to be on the DharmaCloud list, please email us (email address below).

DharmaCloud is an unincorporated not-for-profit association, registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission. It is supported by a small group of volunteers. All programs are run on a dana basis. There is a constitution which outlines the operation of the group.

For further information call (07) 3343-8243, (02) 9427-3605 or email



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