Tarchin's Teaching ScheduleWangapeka ProgramWangapeka Notices || Caretakers Wanted | Wangapeka Caretakers Reunion 2012 | Newsphere Archive Visiting Teachers in New Zealand || Bonni Ross in Nelson 2012 | Lama Mark Webber in NZ 2012 Teacher Schedules || Leander Kane | Tarchin Hearn Schedule 2012  A web archive of Tarchin's writings is now available at www.greendharmatreasury.org. It includes articles, poems and essays, and you can sign up on the website to receive Tarchin's articles. Tarchin's schedule is also available there.Published books and manuals are also available from Wangapeka Books, and ebooks are available from the Treasury of Wisdom on this website. Read about Tarchin Hearn Page updated 02 February 2012 2012 February 11 & 12 Auckland Theme for year: Buddhadharma, a journey of healing and awakening, a re-enchantment of living Two morning workshops Time: Saturday and Sunday mornings from 9am to 12:30 Venue: Devonport Cost: $15.00 per day plus dana to the Teacher. Contact Janet Eades info@aucklandsphere.org for information and to be put on the email list for any Auckland teachings. March 17 - 24 Auckland Theme for year: Buddhadharma, a journey of healing and awakening, a re-enchantment of living Urban retreat Time: Sat & Sun mornings 9:30am – 1pm; then the following Mon, Tues & Thur, evenings 7pm – 9pm; and then the following Sat morning 9:30 – 1pm Venue: Weekends in Devonport, weekday evenings in Westmere Cost: $50:00 (unwaged) or $60 (waged) for the retreat plus dana to the Teacher. Contact Janet Eades info@aucklandsphere.org for information and to be put on the email list for any Auckland teachings. April 13 – 18 Strathean, Otaki, NZ Retreat with the Namgyal Rinpoché Study Group, Wellington Option to attend for weekend only 13-15 April Deep Love and a Passion for Understanding - the natural way to meditate - a retreat for investigating the world within and around us - just as it is - We live in the zendo of our lives – the temple of this living world. We are deeply intermingled with the lives of our families, friends, neighbours, strangers and adversaries, and the myriad other species and beings that we travel with from birth to death. Our bodies and minds are rivers of evolving life, and landscapes of unfolding communities. What could it mean to be fully human? There are many wonderful traditions and practices of meditation. In this retreat, we will explore a form of practice that grows out of the rhythms of relating that you are, a kind of formless practice, though not without structure. In a natural way to meditate, posture and schedules are of little relevance. Instead, we will encourage a flow of caring enquiry that opens our bodies and minds into a place of understanding and experience that is immensely inclusive and rich with reverence and awe for this world in all its abundance. Costs (including accommodation and all meals): Full Immersion: 13-18 April. Start 6 pm Friday/finish 10.30 am Wednesday $350. Weekend only: 13-15 April. Start 6 pm Friday/finish 3.30 pm Sunday $145. Please also bring Dana or Koha for Tarchin’s teaching. This is Tarchin's only source of income. Please give as generously as you are able and help to support this teaching. To obtain more information and a registration form: Contact Denise Tebbs, tel. 04 905 5467 or email denisetebbs@paradise.net.nz. The last date for booking and payment of deposit is 10 January 2012 A poster is available for download here. June 2 - 9 Auckland Theme for year: Buddhadharma, a journey of healing and awakening, a re-enchantment of living Urban retreat Further details to come Contact Janet Eades info@aucklandsphere.org for information and to be put on the email list for any Auckland teachings. July 7 - 14 Auckland Theme for year: Buddhadharma, a journey of healing and awakening, a re-enchantment of living Urban retreat Further details to come Contact Janet Eades info@aucklandsphere.org for information and to be put on the email list for any Auckland teachings. August 10 - 12 Auckland Theme for year: Buddhadharma, a journey of healing and awakening, a re-enchantment of living Weekend Residential Retreat Details to come Contact Janet Eades info@aucklandsphere.org for information and to be put on the email list for any Auckland teachings. September 15 – October 14 Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre NZ Samatha - Vipassana A month residential meditation retreat Samatha is calm abiding, easeful presence, relaxation and naturalness, loving acceptance, continual forgiveness, effortless continuity and flow. Vipassana is insight, clarity, active enquiry, engaged curiosity, vivid discernment, luminous discrimination. Many meditators see the two as separate paths or practices which need to be brought into balance. In the Mahamudra, Dzogchen and Madhyamaka traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, and in T'ien-t'ai, Zen and some forms of Pureland Buddhism, samatha and vipassana are understood to be two facets of a seamless whole. Samatha is the soft, passive, accepting, loving, healing, accommodating, allowing aspect of each moment. Vipassana is the sharp, active, questioning, discerning, awake, aspect. Samatha facilitates our sense of unity. Vipassana facilitates our sense of diversity. The two in union brings us to the simultaneous understanding of the infinite diversity and the profound unity of all that exists. Essentially, the practice of samatha involves stopping; stopping the flow of fragmentation and un-whole-some activity, stopping the tendency to reject and negate. Essentially the practice of vipassana involves opening and engaging; opening to wholeness and inclusivity, engaging through clear seeing and discerning presence. Dwelling in a space of love, tendrils of curiosity reaching forth in all directions, we feel our way, softening and sensitizing into the richness of community, a living world within us, around us and through us. Apprentices of wonderment and awe, probing and questioning, sampling and savouring with calm abiding and vivid discernment together exquisitely intermeshed, we touch our home, this world, of you and me and all of us together, precious beyond words. –– T. H. During these weeks of deepening and discovery we will cultivate the ancient arts of loving-kindness and clear-seeing presence and enquiry. We will explore how bodies and minds of myriad species weave together a mystery suffused with nowful intelligence. We will draw on the mindfulness teachings of Buddhism, the wisdom teachings of the "Heart Sutra", and mesh them with science, personal healing and social responsibility to find a way of living that in this age of economic/ecological anxiety and uncertainty, is wondrously inclusive and joyously life affirming and profoundly freeing. The month will involve much sitting and walking practice, group exploration, and body awareness work, punctuated with experimental exercises to cultivate inner and outer clarity, presence and compassion in action. As in previous retreats with Tarchin, participants will share in the cooking and general housekeeping under the inspired guidance of Mary Jenkins. To do the entire month, you should have some prior maturity in meditation retreat work. Depending on numbers, it may be possible to do less than the month but everyone should begin on September 14. If you have any doubts or questions about the suitability of this retreat for you, please contact Mary at mtness@clear.net.nz A download of this retreat information is available here A registration form is available here. For further information and to register please contact the Centre Ph 03 522-4221 email retreatcentre@wangapeka.org November 9 - 11 Auckland Theme for year: Buddhadharma, a journey of healing and awakening, a re-enchantment of living Weekend Residential Retreat Details to come Contact Janet Eades info@aucklandsphere.org for information and to be put on the email list for any Auckland teachings. Click here for the printfriendly version of this page About Us / Program / Teachers / Treasury / Buddings / Images / Links / Books / Stay / Contact Us / Members
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