The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength & The Queen of Coins Love, Communication, Groundedness and Strength 12 September – 3 October 2018, 7pm in person venue: Kingsland, Auckland in person, online or watch the recording This standalone urban (in daily life) retreat also acts as a taster for The 5th annual 7-day retreat at the Wangapeka in 7 – 14 June 2019. Also Coming up: …
In Memory of Stellar Wangchuk Gelongma Sabbe Sankhara Anicca’ti All Compounded Things are Impermanent We have just received belated news that Stellar Wangchuk Gelongma died in Jan. 2014 at the age of 92. Wangchuk was a teacher, friend and inspiration for many people around the world. Through years of extensive travel, study and retreat with the Ven. Namgyal Rinpoché she …
Your Board members are: Jane Hobday; Sue Wilson; David Pooch; Duncan Mackay; Pierre Mitchell. Wangapeka has a board of trustees and we meet monthly. Once a year we have a longer meeting in the form of a “board retreat” and this was held at Wangapeka earlier in February. Most of what was discussed was procedural stuff but some is newsy and some affects all those …
News from the Main Hall It has been a great opportunity for lots of pats up here for me! One day we had two classes of 12 and 13 year-old Steiner school kids overnight. They were having a great time exploring the centre’s grounds and playing lots of games. They also learnt meditation from Jaime and like magic 17 kids calmed …
Living Buddha, Living Dharma, Living Sangha or What’s the problem? What can I do? What can I realise? How can we help? (a modern Buddhist’s response to a Donald Trumpian world) by Tarchin Hearn, Feb. 2017 Click here to read in PDF format Late afternoon sun and it’s hot. With passing rainless days, everything has been drying out. Browning hills. …
Cecilie Kwiat is a meditation teacher with skill in crafting traditional meditation techniques to accommodate individual needs. Cecilie considers herself to be a Buddhist practitioner rooted in North American culture. Since the mid 1960’s when she met her first Buddhist teacher – then known as the Venerable Ananda Bodhi, later recognised by the late Holiness, the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and …
Jonathan has been practicing yoga, meditation and buddha-dharma since 2003 and teaching since 2011. His foundational practices have been Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga (in the tradition of Shri K. Pattabhi Jois) and vipassana meditation (in the tradition of S.N. Goenka). In 2013 he began working with the rich teachings and practices of Vajrayana and has more recently begun a study of …
