beacon yoga centre

An Introduction to Calm Abiding Meditation

 

4 February to 8 April 2025 at the Sivananda Ashram, Beaconsfield WA and online via Zoom with Michael Bobrowicz.

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A ten-week practical course on how to meditate and the development of Calm and Insight, and the Buddhist principles of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.

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Classes will be held at the Sivananda Ashram, Beaconsfield WA and online via Zoom:

Tuesday nights 7.00pm to 8.15 pm 4 February to 8 April 2025 Time is Australian Western Time (AWST) Classes simultaneously online and recorded for those in other time zones

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Following Buddhist tradition there is no fee for the classes.

We will put out a bowl and whatever is collected will be used to support the Ashram, we will suggest an alternate support for those attending remotely.

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Please register your interest in attending by emailing Rebecca at: calmabidingmed@hotmail.com

We will send you a zoom link as part of the enrolment.

 

For almost all of us, there is some time in the day or week where calm arises. It may be just as one goes to sleep, or in the moment when one notices the sun falling on a flower in the garden; or while having a quiet beer on a Friday night. There is nothing wrong, by the way, with having a beer! But these avenues to calm cannot be practised methodically; they tend to happen randomly, and sometimes the beer just does not do it. We can’t really ‘call them up’ when we need them. 

Calm Abiding meditation is different: we learn it, we practise it in formal meditation, and then it starts to pervade our lives and we can find the calm when we need it. Calmness is difficult to describe because it is neither a thought nor an emotion but is perhaps a state of consciousness that contains both thought and feeling. We do know it well by its effect. With calmness present we can deal better with untoward events, we are less blown about by outside forces, and importantly, we are less stressed by what does arise around us.