Public Schedule

Auckland Teachings and Explorations for 2012
Buddhadharma
a journey of healing and awakening
a re-enchantment of living

With your body, speech, mind and daily activities, as a path of awakening wonderment,
Your home and workplaces, as the bodhi-mandala,
Your friends and family, colleagues and adversaries, as companions on the path,
Right ‘here’, in all its rich complexity,
We embrace this life of living dharma. T.H.

In 2012, Tarchin will visit Auckland six times to lead explorations and retreats in mindful, wonder-filled living. Please mark these dates on your calendar and tell any friends who you feel may be interested.

Feb 11, – 12th   Morning teachings and explorations
March 17 – 24   Urban Retreat (non-residential)
June 2 – 9   Urban Retreat (non-residential)
July 7 – 14   Urban Retreat (non-residential)
August 10 –12   Residential Retreat (venue to be announced)
November 9 – 11   Residential Retreat (venue to be announced)

The Urban Retreats will span 8 days. Participants will gather with Tarchin on Sat. 9:30 – 1pm; Sun. 9:30 – 1pm; Mon. Tues. and Thurs. 7pm – 9 and Sat. 9:30 – 1pm

In each class we will consider themes and possibilities for cultivating easeful presence and lucid creative action in the midst of our day to day lives. The heart of buddhadharma is not so much something to be studied, but something to be lived. With this in mind, Tarchin encourages Urban Retreaters to commit to the entire week so that the process can build a momentum and have some significant impact on how we live

For all queries please contact Janet: janete1 [at] ihug.co [dot] nz
or Mobile: 021 298 1242

April 13 – 18, 2012
Strathean, Otaki, NZ
Deep Love and a Passion for Understanding
– the natural way to meditate –

a retreat for investigating the world within and around us
— just as it is —

We live in the zendo of our lives – the temple of this living world. We are deeply intermingled with the lives of our families, friends, neighbours, strangers and adversaries, and the myriad other species and beings that we travel with from birth to death. Our bodies and minds are rivers of evolving life, and landscapes of unfolding communities. What could it mean to be fully human?

There are many wonderful traditions and practices of meditation. In this retreat, we will explore a form of practice that grows out of the rhythms of relating that you are, a kind of formless practice, though not without structure. In a natural way to meditate, posture and schedules are of little relevance. Instead, we will encourage a flow of caring enquiry that opens our bodies and minds into a place of understanding and experience that is immensely inclusive and rich with reverence and awe for this world in all its abundance.

For all enquiries, contact Denise Tebbs tel. 04 905 5467 or
e-mail: denisetebbs [at] paradise.net [dot] nz

May 1 – May 14
Melbourne, Australia
Residential Retreat at Shoreham – Fri. 4th – 13th
plus two evening classes. More details will be announced as they are firmed up.

For further information contact Kathryn: kshain [at] aapt.net [dot] au
or visit, www.openpathmeditation.com.au

June 2 – 9
Urban Retreat, Auckland, NZ
(see information at the top of this page)

July 7 – 14
Urban Retreat, Auckland, NZ
(see information at the top of this page)

August 10 –12
Residential Retreat, Auckland, NZ
(see information at the top of this page)

Sept. 14 – October 14, 2012
Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre, NZ
Samatha – Vipassana
a four week retreat
Samatha is calm abiding, easeful presence, relaxation and naturalness, loving acceptance, continual forgiveness, effortless continuity and flow.  Vipassana is insight, clarity, active enquiry, engaged curiosity, vivid discernment, luminous discrimination.

Many meditators see the two as separate paths or practices which need to be brought into balance.  In the Mahamudra, Dzogchen and Madhyamaka traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, and in T’ien-t’ai, Zen and some forms of Pureland Buddhism, samatha and vipassana are understood to be two facets of a seamless whole.

Samatha is the soft, passive, accepting, loving, healing, accommodating, allowing aspect of each moment.  Vipassana is the sharp, active, questioning, discerning, awake, aspect.  Samatha facilitates our sense of unity.  Vipassana facilitates our sense of diversity.  The two in union brings us to the simultaneous understanding of the infinite diversity and the profound unity of all that exists.

Essentially, the practice of samatha involves stopping; stopping the flow of fragmentation and un-whole-some activity, stopping the tendency to reject and negate.

Essentially the practice of vipassana involves opening and engaging; opening to wholeness and inclusivity, engaging through clear seeing and discerning presence.

Dwelling in a space of love,
tendrils of curiosity reaching forth in all directions,
we feel our way,
softening and sensitizing into the richness of community,
a living world within us, around us and through us.

Apprentices of wonderment and awe,
probing and questioning,
sampling and savouring
with calm abiding and vivid discernment together exquisitely intermeshed,
we touch our home,
this world,
of you and me and all of us together,
precious
beyond words.
–– T. H.

During these weeks of deepening and discovery we will cultivate the ancient arts of loving-kindness and clear-seeing presence and enquiry.  We will explore how bodies and minds of myriad species weave together a mystery suffused with nowful intelligence.  We will draw on the mindfulness teachings of Buddhism, the wisdom teachings of the “Heart Sutra”, and mesh them with science, personal healing and social responsibility to find a way of living that in this age of economic/ecological anxiety and uncertainty, is wondrously inclusive and joyously life affirming and profoundly freeing.

The month will involve much sitting and walking practice, group exploration, and  body awareness work, punctuated with experimental exercises to cultivate inner and outer clarity, presence and compassion in action.

As in previous retreats with Tarchin, participants will share in the cooking and general housekeeping under the inspired guidance of Mary Jenkins.

To do the entire month, you should have some prior maturity in meditation retreat work.  Depending on numbers, it may be possible to do less than the month but all everyone should begin on Sept 14.  If you have any doubts or questions about the suitability of this retreat for you, please contact Mary at <mtness [at] clear.net [dot] nz>

For general enquiries and registration please contact <retreatcentre [at] wangapeka [dot] org>

November 9 – 11
Residential Retreat, Auckland, NZ
(see information at the top of this page)

Nov. 27 – Dec. 10
Tasmania, Australia
Residential Retreat at Dorje Ling, Lorinna, Nov. 30th – Dec. 9th
There will also be two evening classes in Hobart More details will be announced closer to the time.

For further information, contact Ross: ross.coward [at] gmail [dot] com