This page has been updated to add the streaming link.
Grant Rix has generously offered to teach at the Dharma Centre on Sunday, 12-June at 10am. This teaching will replace our regular Cultivating Awareness practice.
All are welcome; entry by dana (donation) to the Centre. This teaching will be streamed using this link.
Description
Mindfulness calls us to practice, and yet to paraphrase the Buddha; the goal is “no further than hands and feet.” So what to make of this strange and wondrous path of practice that winds its way to the home we have never, ever, left? Why is it that we experience suffering and dissatisfaction when the heart of freedom is already right here, now? And what’s all this talk about “effortless presence” when practising meditation seems to require so much effort?
This Sunday morning class is a chance to practice together and to explore these paradoxical themes that, on the surface, seem so contradictory. For it is in the act of patiently grasping at the ungraspable, again and again, that these conceptual paradoxes have a way of resolving themselves into an ever-clarifying awareness large enough to encompass the duality of opposites.
Biography
Grant Rix has been studying and practising meditation all his adult life and has completed numerous retreats, including graduating from a unique three-year study and meditation programme that took place at the Wangapeka Retreat Centre during the mid-00’s under the guidance of his principal teacher, Tarchin Hearn. Other teachers Grant has studied and retreated with include the Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche, Lama Mark Webber, and Sonia Moriceau.
Having completed traditional foundational practices and continuing with studies of Mahāmudrā and the four foundations of mindfulness, Grant has a sound understanding of methods common to Buddha Dharma as well as modern secular approaches to mindfulness practice and research.