Kumanu 1. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to tend carefully, foster, attend to, care for, cherish. Emerging from our annual Hui this year on the practice of Dana was an expressed need for more flow of information and communication between the Board of Trustees, Caretakers and community. This would keep the community better informed of the day-to-day running of the Centre and also offers valuable practical …
1/9/18 Contemplating the awesomeness of surrendering into living. Life is a terminal condition. All living creatures die – 100% of them. I am living with metastatic cancer. In a week or so, I may have surgery to remove a cancerous left common iliac lymph node. There are no statistics to say that such a procedure with all its risks will …
HINTS OF BLESSEDNESS: REFLECTIONS FROM BODHI SEEDS RETREAT 2018 AND THE BEGINNING OF IMMEASURABLE SCHOOL Eight young explorers ascended the Wangapeka driveway in early August, bringing with them uncertainties, expectations, talents, and a willingness to show up, to name but a few qualities. All of us together for one month, apprentices to calming, questioning, opening, and communing. If there was …
The profound oasis of sanity that is the Wangapeka was established in 1975. The centre has always and continues to strive to be a place of refuge and learning for everyone. To assist this admirable objective accommodation and food costs for courses and retreats are kept to a minimum. The Wangapeka remains a not for profit organisation and aims to …
Touch and Feeling During this Pilgrimage I have noticed an opening of touch and feeling. A sense of love, a deep desire to know and feel into a deeper sense of connectedness with all of life. The feeling of the Buddha’s presence, was visceral. The Buddha’s living presence being experienced as very much alive and dynamic, rather than a historical …
The Wangapeka is a charitable trust and we exist thanks to your generosity. We are an approved donee organisation, so the IRD will happily give you a beautiful big tax rebate on your donations to us. Here’s how it works… Individuals If you are a New Zealander and you have a taxable income, you can claim back 33.33% of any donation …
The Centre is humming. Wangapeka continues to offer a wide range of courses and retreats giving people different access points to the dharma (e.g. the short and often topical weekend workshops through to the month-long meditation retreats). All sorts of people continue to find their way here whether through word of mouth, looking at our excellent website or by some …
Eight buddhing seeds begin. For some introducing, other reacquainting in ever fresh ways each other to pujas, cycles of samatha, anapanasati, moving bodies to dancing stuck places, all in the warm embrace of smiling and breathing. Matching skills and passions we are working with Guy and Faith to clear land, opening space down by the river, shifting wood, helping around new …
It begins on Friday afternoon at the airport, meeting long-time member David Pooch from Auckland. He is an interesting companion for the drive and one of our valued Board members who demonstrates that distance is no deterrent to fully participating in regular meetings through clever technology. We enjoy the hourʼs drive of winding roads, hillsides glowing in late afternoon sun, the increasing hectares of …
