Coping with the credit crunch - meditation in Geneva

Phra Nicholas Thanissaro of the Dhammakaya Centre for Buddhist Meditation (London) and Phra Wichit of Wat Buddha (Geneva) organized the fourth monthly meditation workshop at Supatra Café restaurant, Versoix for thirty interested Genevoise of twenty different nationalities. The workshop comprised a short talk about the applying meditation to the solving of problems such as coping with the current recession, the opportunity to try meditating for fifteen minutes . The next such session will be held at 4.00 p.m on Sunday 31 May 2009 at Rampe de la Gare 11, CH-1290 Versoix. Interested? Contact Supatra on 022 779 19 88.

Weekly meditation class opened to non-boarding students

The boarding children of the International School Léman, Geneva are far from bored with continuing enthusiasm for the Monday evening meditation club. Phra Wichit, abbot of Wat Buddha Geneva, with the translating skills of Supatra Wuillemin has been giving meditation lessons for students and teachers at the school and by popular appeal has been opened up to the non-boarding students too!

Wexford: Middle Way Workshop III

A Middle Way meditation workshop attracting 21 students was organized for a third time on Tuesday 28 April 2009 in Kilrane and Rosslare Harbour, Co.Wexford, Ireland and led by Ven. Phra Nicholas Thanissaro of the Dhammakaya Centre for Buddhist Meditation in Woking. By popular request, a fourth such workshop will be held on 26 May 2009. Interested? Give Dee Mythen a ring on 087 9521804 to reserve as limited places are available.

Meditation to solve Geneva's problems

'Meditation and problem-solving' was the title of a meditation workshop held on Sunday 19 April 2009 at Wat Buddha, Geneva and led by Phra Nicholas Thanissaro who had travelled from Wat Phra Dhammakaya, London. Attended by thirty new and regular students, many of the participants joined the traditional Buddhist ceremony afterwards of offering a midday meal to the teaching monks. The next workshop in the series will be held at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday 31 May 2009. For more details contact +41 22 7740587.

Malta's First Middle Way Meditation Retreat

The Bayview Hotel in Floriana, was the mediterranean location of Malta's first Middle Way meditation retreat on 11 April 2009 for around 30 enthusiastic Maltese. Phra Nicholas Thanissaro travelled from London to lead a one-day retreat on such subjects as the basics of meditation, meditation and problem-solving and meditation's integration in everyday life. Negative thinking and insomnia were some symptoms retreatants claimed to overcome as a result of their day of meditation. Other meditators described inner experiences including inner light and many expressed a wish to meditate further on a daily basis at home and to form a regular meditation group for the country. Special thanks go out to Kalyanamitras Anotai (Nui) Debono and Manao who worked without sleep for three days to make the event possible. Anyone in Malta who missed this event, but who would like to be informed of the next should contact Nui on +356 99260851.

Denmark - Middle Way One-Day Retreat

Old friends and new gathered for a one-day meditation retreat on 9 April 2009 at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Juelsminde, Denmark for a one-day Middle Way meditation retreat. Led by Phra Nicholas Thanissaro and Phra Henrik Katapunyo, the retreat gave a foundation of understanding about the basic workings of meditation and went on to explore how meditation can be applied to solve life's various problems. In the afternoon, a longer meditation was combined with exploration of the Noble Eightfold Path - or in other words, the interface between meditation and what one does in one's everyday life.

Tuesday's Meditation and Business Lifestyle

Every Tuesday evening, since February 2009 more than twenty students of an ongoing course on 'Meditation for Business Lifestyle' led by Phra Sarttra Thirapanyo at the Dhammakaya Centre for Buddhist Meditation, Woking - have been learning how to apply their meditation experience to their working lives. Including a dedicated lecture series, exercise and a study of Buddhist culture (a.k.a meditational mopping), the meditation progress of this group has been exemplary.