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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. …
Over labour weekend we had a successful working bee at the Centre. Projects tackled included painting the Hay Shed, cleaning the pagoda and cool store, maintenance of the stream track, rat-proofing of Omahu, defrosting the freezers, and lots of little painting and gardening jobs. It was great to have some workers who were new to the Wangapeka, as well as …
Tarchin Hearn gave beautiful teachings on Red Chenrezi and Mahamudra at Orgyen Hermitage recently. Here are some photos from this meditation retreat. If you would like to be kept up to date with Tarchin Hearn’s retreats you can sign up to their mail list on the Green Dharma Treasury website contact page – it is on the right hand side of the …
Work in one of the most beautiful places in the world We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic office caretaker to join the community at the Wangapeka Study and retreat Centre ideally starting September 2016. You must be a NZ resident or have permission to work in NZ and have computer skills and office work experience. We are particulary interested to …
A Note from Tarchin Due to ongoing health issues, which are in the process of being looked after, I am not committing to any further public teachings. Instead, Mary and I are enjoying a pause for deepening contemplation and study. In the mean time I continue to work with individuals at here at Orgyen. We now have a self contained retreat cabin available for guests. …
By Guy Nicholls Land Caretakers at the Wangapeka Retreat Centre have to be compassionately tough and resilient or else, as many know, the Land will soon enough be taking care of them. Thankfully for me every day in some way feeds into the enlightening process. It’s absolutely nothing like serving out a sentence at a Dharmic penitentiary! In fact physical …
Message from Tarchin Hearn to our worldwide community: Dear Friends Yesterday I received an e-mail requesting help to send immediate, practical aid to Nepal. I have known Anna Crotty in Tasmania for a number of years and am inspired by her extraordinary hard work dedicated to helping people in dire need. Her organisation, “Tents 4 Peace” works on a shoe …
“Every cloud has a silver lining” was an expression from the English poet John Milton. Now, last May, the day before Bonni’s month long retreat, several of these clouds burst open and a deluge ensued. The lovely and peaceful little stream on the stream track became a raging torrent, taking with it both banks of the stream, along with trees, …
The Annual General Meeting for the Wangapeka is Sunday, 28th June 2015, 10:00 am at the centre. As ususal, we offer free accommodation on Friday and Saturday nights and ask for people to bring a contribution for the Sunday lunch. For any further information please contact: wangapekacentre@gmail.com
