The Melbourne Zen Group is based in Brunswick East, Melbourne, Australia. Our weekly meditation meetings are open to both members and non-members.
Our Dharma sharing theme at weekly sits, throughout our Winter Practice Period, will be is the 8th century Zen poem Sandokai.
Yarra Valley Parklands Yatra
Sunday 18 October, 10am-12pm, Eltham
Yatra (Sanskrit): a journey, pilgrimage.
We invite you to join us on this short yatra in the Yarra Valley Parklands in Eltham South. We will walk in silence at a gentle pace, and there will also be time for sitting in nature and dharma sharing.
Registration is required to attend.
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Merri Creek litter clean-up
Saturday 14 November, 1pm-3pm
To support a practice of Eco Dharma and help all the beings living on the beautiful land around Ceres where we practice, we are holding a MZG Merri Creek litter clean-up. Departure is from the CERES learning Centre.
Registration is required to attend.
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Sesshin with Subhana Barzaghi Roshi
and Aladdin Jones Sensei
Touching the Light Inside the Dark
The spiritual source shines clear in the light,
The branching streams flow on in the dark.
– Sandokai by Shitou
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Friday 27 November to Friday 4 December
Dardi Munwurro Healing Camp (formerly Kallara)
Strathbogie Ranges
Sesshin is an opportunity to cultivate serenity, joy and equanimity, to find stillness in movement and open up the boundless heart. Serenity gives us calmness, joy offers us nourishment, love opens our heart, equanimity gives us ballast. Together we can meet the many branching streams of sorrow and joy, pleasure and pain, the light and dark. Embodying harmony we discover that the many separate things of our daily life are simultaneously expressions of one single whole reality.
The sitting meditation of zazen and the moving meditation of qigong are two complementary expressions that mutually reinforce the practice of the Way in ordinary, everyday activity. Peter Wong will be leading us in a daily qigong practice. Qigong has its origin in Daoist practices that go back for millennia in China. Using gentle exercises, it seeks to strengthen the body by promoting the healthy functioning of the meridians by removing blockages and improving the flow of qi (vital energy). Qigong offers meditators a way to continue their practice off the cushion.
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