March 2020
Busy Mind, Peaceful Mind – Getting Started With Mindfulness Meditation [Online Event]
Six weekly online sessions to help you learn and begin a mindfulness meditation practice. Tuesday evenings at 6pm. Facilitated by Donal Quirke from YOGABODY Ireland, the sessions begin on March 31st, and will run from 6 to 6.50 PM. You can join this online event on the Zoom platform via this link. Donal has been a volunteer and member of the board of trustees of Sunyata Buddhist Centre since 2009.
Find out more »April 2020
Full Day Retreat with Nick Scott (Online Event)
To join this full day retreat you have to commit to take part in all of it (schedule below). We are using Zoom conferencing software which is free to you. You can take part using a computer with camera, laptop or smart phone over the internet. You can also take part with audio only using a phone line via an Irish phone number. The link for the Friday night meeting is below. At this meeting you will be given the…
Find out more »May 2020
13 day retreat with Ajahn Brahmavara
This retreat is an opportunity for experienced meditators to deepen their practice in an environment free from external distraction. The encouragement is to let go of devices, books, writing and speaking in order to enable a deep appreciation of peace and happiness within as well as that which obscures our natural state of well being. There will be brief meditation guidance from the Buddha's teachings, particularly Satipatthana Sutta and Anapanasati Sutta. Each evening there will be a talk exploring the…
Find out more »Sunyata Family Camp 2020
Our fifth family camp will take place over the June bank holiday weekend from May 29th -June 1st. This retreat will be an opportunity to experience the space to spend time with your family in a mindful way and reflect on your practice in a supportive community environment The camp aims to create a supportive environment for parents to practice Dharma and apply mindfulness methods in every day family life. The camp will be an opportunity for families to support…
Find out more »June 2020
10 day Retreat with Nick Scott, assisted by Heike Griffin
A ten day retreat is an opportunity to deepen one's meditation practice and leads to an understanding of what meditation and the spiritual journey is really about. The period is long enough that we can leave behind the stress caused by our daily interactions while having no need to plan the future. It thus becomes possible to explore the present and in the space and silence that opens up to process our buried memories, traits and other conditioning so that…
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