If all goes to plan, I’m about to start my usual month of self-retreat in September so I’ll be out of contact for quite a while, but I wanted to let you know about a couple of new events that I’ll be teaching for Auckland Insight.The first is a one-day meditation workshop exploring the foundationsContinueContinue reading “Two new events in Aotearoa / New Zealand”
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September 2015 full moon – Maintaining Motivation (or finding antidotes to “sloth and torpor”)
The five hindrances I’ve been back in New Zealand for the month of September, and with the Auckland Insight group, we’ve been exploring the Five Hindrances, five particularly unhelpful states of mind that get in the way of clear seeing, of insight. They appear in the Satipatthana Sutta under the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness, asContinueContinue reading “September 2015 full moon – Maintaining Motivation (or finding antidotes to “sloth and torpor”)”