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23 July 2024Retreat in a Nutshell “What is your hearts deepest desire?” is the question posed early in retreat. Later becomes “How do I live?” Be good. Be kind. Be patient. With myself and others. All others. I becomes we.
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23 July 2024a reflection I think most people who come to the Wangapeka experience the wholesomeness of this land and all the practice that has taken place over all the years. Even if you can’t say exactly what it is, there is a feeling! This weekend gave us an opportunity to explore that more...
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23 July 2024A reflection on Service as the Path The nostalgia flashes, the electricity in the brain finds its way to that old pathway of joy. The smell of soil fills my lungs, and the deep hole begins to vibrate. The spade goes in, crunch. The focus remains on the heaped soil as...
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23 July 2024Here it is winter – and somewhat rainy – this is great. The rhododendrons and mahoe suffered badly during the drought. We watered the Rhodos several times from January to June – responding to their drooping leaves – so the first rains were a great relief. Over the last year or...
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23 July 2024‘Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,’ Joseph exclaimed. ‘If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted in the opposite sense…. Isn’t there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?’ The Master said …. ‘There is...
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7 July 2024Kumanu is about getting feedback from the community on topical issues. The traditional Saturday hui on our AGM weekend will be a kind of spoken Kumanu. Here is a taster of the issues where we really would like your input. SAP Service as the Path is half way through and ends...
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15 May 2024We’re letting you know about the launch of The Path of Victory by Namgyal Rinpoche in eBook form. It’s now available for pre-order on Kindle. Kindle (USA) Kindle (Canada) Kindle (Australia) To celebrate the launch we are sharing with you an interview with Sonam Senge, providing the text of the Acknowledgements section to bring...
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26 March 2024Trustees Dan Burgess-Milne of Christchurch has stepped down from the Board of Trustees. During his time on the board Dan was renowned for putting Dharma first and foremost when considering issues and applied skilful reasoning and perspective which helped us with many governance issues. Dan spent quite some time working on...
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16 March 2024The new cabin is complete! On the new moon of Sunday March 10th, around 40 people gathered in the morning sunshine to celebrate and share in the blessing ceremony for the new cabin, Vast Expanse Hermitage. It was a joyous occasion! Speeches by the cabin team Jane Hobday, Glenn Harley and Graham...
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16 March 2024What would we do without Course Managers? by Mira Riddiford Course managers are Dharmic Angels who breathe retreats into being. They know their way around an excel spreadsheet and keep a laser focussed eye on costs and the dana to the centre board. It is a simple fact that retreats can’t...
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16 March 2024Breath is Energy Healing, Breath is Life retreat reflection by Tim Leyland (January 12 to 26, 2024) The Buddha states that mindfulness of the breath, “developed and repeatedly practiced, is of great fruit, great benefit.” It fulfils the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (satipatthana). When these are developed and cultivated, they fulfil...
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26 February 2024Minutes and reports: Minutes Land Care report Centre Caretaker Report Maintenance Sub-Committee Report What’s been happening: Service as the path is coming closer, with Mark and Kath busy packing up their home in Nelson & preparing to come to Wangapeka for Service As the Path. Glenn and Karen hosted a beautiful & well-attended send-off in Nelson...
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19 February 2024Hi All, Here is a link to the online launch event for the release of the e-Book version of “Breath of Awakening” by Namgyal Rinpoche. Also — here is an excerpt of the Acknowledgements page. There were lots of helpers. The main thing that Wangapeka offered was the detailed file conversion. Cheers, Wangapeka Communications
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6 February 2024March 10, 2024 at 10am Wangapeka Centre RSVP to Jane Hobday jane.hobday17@gmail.com You are warmly invited to attend a Blessing for the sparkling new Cabin built for Bonni and Matthew, and the Wangapeka. The Blessing, led by Bonni, will take place on the new moon of Sunday 10th March 2024 at 10.00am. Afterwards we will have...
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4 February 2024Kumanu is a personal piece written by one of the trust board members. In particular it seeks feedback from the community. Your Trust Board met by Zoom on 15 January this year. This month we’re looking for feedback, and or help with, finding a full time Land Caretaker, finding an installer of...
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9 January 2024You are invited! Contribute Your Stories to Wangapeka Tales Part of Wangapeka’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations To support the celebration of our 50th anniversary, Hadleigh Tiddy, with support from others, has been crafting a neat little website to gather, store and share “Wangapeka Tales”. This is our virtual campfire, where we can contribute to and enjoy...
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9 January 2024Minutes and reports: November Land Caretaker Report Minutes December Land Caretaker Report What’s been happening: Service as the path – Preparations are ongoing, with registrations opening soon. Young Adults Retreat – Participants on YAR 2023 have been hard at work volunteering dana to the land, sewing new cushions and getting on with jobs all around the centre. The...
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19 December 2023We were very lucky to have Terry and Mala here for the Namgyal Celebration long weekend. They gave a variety of offerings, including a Namgyal puja, and various sessions exploring awareness in movement. I would like to share some of my personal experiences in participating in their final movement class. Firstly, there...
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19 December 2023Namgyal Rinpoche Celebration Weekend. Oct 20-23.2023 Graham Price & Marty Stratton. What an opportunity. A reflection with friends dating back to the 80’s on the cherished memory of Namgyal Rinpoche and his legacy. Terry and Mala also coming! I thought a great opportunity to share my spiritual home with my partner Marty...
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19 December 2023Teacher, Mentor, Spiritual friend, Guru; The Big picture. Bonni Ross, Wangapeka, Friday 13 -Tuesday 17 Oct , 2023 The coat hanger of a course title was not what drew me. I came to meet Bonni. A kind of brief first date, in a familiar landscape that has loved me into Being since...
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10 December 2023That is – we’re getting close to moving in! It’s been a joyful journey from aspiration – An Aspiration To Support Bonni And Matthew At The Wangapeka – to the building of the cabin. We’re looking forward to the next stage when Bonni and Matthew are in it! Glenn, Brandon, their trusty...
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25 November 2023By Dan Burgess-Milne Hello Wangapeka Community Apologies for a long delay between Kumanus. There was a little miscommunication, as I was waiting on some information that had already gone out. This Kumanu will cover from September until now (November). On the weekend of September 1–3 we had our BOT weekend at Wangapeka. This...
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1 September 2023Weaving Tiwaiwaka-( healing the mauri of the whenua); Te Ao Maori; and Buddha Dharma. Was it really only a weekend? The weka says “Oi, Oi, Oi” Eyes shut, face down- can’t be found anywhere… Seeing for the first time, Hearing as a small child, as a teen, as a caretaker, a retreatant….. Remembering this place as...
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1 September 2023Ka ora te whenua, Ka ora te tangata When the land is well the people will be well, is a central theme to the Tiwaiwaka principles that streams through Pā Ropata, Rob McGowan. In July we spent a weekend with an almost full house of people, for the first time without...
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1 September 2023Earlier in August, I had what seemed to be a serendipitous opportunity to attend the One Breath retreat at Wangapeka. I had been stuck between three delicious bite-sized weekend retreats that all called to me in different ways, yet when circumstances dictated which was to be the one for me,...
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1 September 2023Namaste. I would like to tell a short story: It was sometime in the late 1980’s when I held the first and sole Nelson position of “Community Development person” with the Dept of Internal Affairs, Community Development, a major aspect of that role was to administer the Lottery Grants board funding across...
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1 September 2023An Idea for the Wangapeka Community: Don’t know about you but as I age I can see a time when I can’t drag that gas bottle across the paddock any longer and it is getting harder to dig over the garden. Having witnessed my mum (97) living her last years in...