Melbourne Insight Meditation
COVID-19 (coronavirus) Response
Our weekly meditation sits (on Monday and Wednesday), as well as our retreats, are now run online, until further notice. Please participate in a quick survey by clicking here to give feedback about how you'd like us to continue offering our sits and retreats. See details below about how to access the online weekly sits. For information about our retreats click here About Melbourne Insight Meditation (MIM) is a community of meditators practicing in the tradition of Insight (Vipassana) Meditation. We aim to support each other and develop our practice. We welcome beginners or experienced meditators to join us. Acknowledgement of Country Melbourne Insight Meditation acknowledges the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia. We recognise sovereignty was never ceded and the continuing connection of indigenous peoples to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to Indigenous people, their cultures, and to elders past, present and emerging. |
MONDAY NIGHTSThis will now run online each Monday, 7.00pm-8.15pm
You can book your place and donate $5 to MIM here and the meeting link will be emailed to you. If you have any issues please email Loretta and she will send you the link TEACHERS Monday, 2nd November - NO SIT (MELB CUP PUBLIC HOLIDAY) Monday, 9th November - CHRISTINE THOMPSON Monday, 16th November - TBC Monday, 23rd November - JESS HUON Monday, 30th November - ROBYN GIBSON Teachers offer guidance and dharma talks on the principle of dana. They are not paid by MIM. Dana is an ancient Pali word meaning "generosity", "giving" or "gift." You are free to give any amount dependent on your financial situation. See our Visiting Teachers page for more information. Mindful Yoga on Monday with MIM facilitator Amanda Hawkey will be offered by dana at 5.30pm before the Monday night sit. Contact Amanda for the details via amandahawkey@mac.com More information melbourneinsightmeditation@gmail.com |
WEDNESDAY NIGHTSThis will now run online each Wednesday, 7.00pm-8.15pm
You can book your place and donate $5 to MIM here and the meeting link will be emailed to you. If you have any issues please email Loretta and she will send you the link TEACHERS Wednesday, 4th November - SUZIE BROWN Wednesday, 11th November - CAROL PERRY Wednesday, 18th November - CHRISTINE THOMPSON Wednesday, 25th November - PATRICK KEARNEY Teachers offer guidance and dharma talks on the principle of dana. They are not paid by MIM. Dana is an ancient Pali word meaning "generosity", "giving" or "gift." You are free to give any amount dependent on your financial situation. See our Visiting Teachers page for more information. More information melbourneinsightmeditation@gmail.com Please note: The meditation practice may not be suitable for those who have experienced psychosis or who are currently experiencing acute depression. If in doubt, please seek advice from a psychologist or psychiatrist. Retreat Scholarship Fund
Interested in donating to the Retreat Scholarship Fund? Please email us. While we run our retreats on a tight budget (costs cover accommodation, food, teachers' travel costs and administration only), we do offer a supported place for each retreat. Please contact us if you are in genuine financial hardship, and wish to discuss this option. Email: insightretreats@hotmail.com Donate to MIM MIM is a not for profit organisation and welcomes donations to support the continuation of the organisation. Donate via paypal or bank transfer Melbourne Insight Meditation Group BSB: 313-140 Account no: 12207815 |
OCTOBER
"Devotion" - One Day Online Retreat with Jess Huon 10am - 4.30pm Saturday 31st October, via Zoom ‘I headed into solitude and faraway places to be with people where devotion wasn’t something to hide - where I could let my heart rip in a more uncommon way, without shame. . . ‘ In this day-event, we’ll explore the role of devotion in our practice. What is it? Where does it show up? Does it have a place in our modern lives? What might we have forgotten or overlooked in our modern individualistic pursuit of freedom? Buddhism is often attractive to Westerners because of its clear methods in working with suffering and its intelligent mapping of concepts as sign-posts on the pathway towards freedom. Yet the Dharma with its many lineages offers entry points into deeper experience which travel in another direction to the rational mind. The Dharma intends to ‘shake us’ out of our personal silos, to place our own lives in a much wider context. This asks us to relinquish control; to unclutch our hands and swim in a different stream. On this day, we’ll be exploring other entry points into practice. Let’s explore devotion together, in the daylight! How to set up for an online retreat Read our guidelines here before booking your place Cost $30 + dana for Jess's teaching Bookings To book click here Enquiries insightretreats@hotmail.com DECEMBER "Openness: Exploring Freshness" - 3-Day Online Retreat with Jess Huon (assistant teacher Robyn Gibson) Friday 4th December - Monday 7th December 2020, via Zoom ‘In one day we receive more information now than a person did during their whole life 100 years ago. This last year we’ve seen in clear view the consequences of past neglect; to the environment, and to the inequities that live between us. It’s clear we need smart and innovative action, yet how can we access this openness in mind, and heart - where we are not divided in resentment, upset and self-harassment? How might this inner space free up how we meet what’s before us? In this retreat we’ll be cultivating conditions for the freshness and liveliness that exist beneath the noise. We will discern how to stay alert but not swamped. Poets, prophets and different spiritual traditions have pointed us towards this space, using different means. Here, the possibility of aligning with something potent and transforming in the human experience; something, we could say, more rooted in the beautiful. This space can’t be owned or fenced off, every-one is welcome. This retreat will be grounded in foundational Buddhist practices. Teachings will draw on the facilitators’ direct experience, metta heart practices, and the poetic traditions. Guidance and support will be offered through meditation instructions, relaxation practices, connected movement classes, group interviews and discussions and Dharma talks. How to set up for an online retreat Read our guidelines here before booking your place Cost $100 + dana for Jess's teaching Bookings To book click here Enquiries insightretreats@hotmail.com Click here for more of our 2020 workshops and retreats |
