A Retreat on Mindfulness of Breath and Hua-Yen, Makarora, NZ

This retreat lead by Lama Mark Webber will start with step by step teachings and individual guidance on the Buddha’s classic method of Mindfulness of Breath (Anapanasati). Both the Tranquility and Insight aspects of this remarkable meditation will be presented and explained.

After approximately 10 days, Lama Mark will give teachings and meditations from the Hua-yen school of Buddhism. These are profound and vast meditations on relativity, interdependence and impermanence, the Four Realms of reality, the Ten Mysterious Gates and so forth–inconceivably deep, challenging and stretching.

The Empowerment of the Demchog Five Tantras will also be bestowed, by request.

The two texts for this retreat are: The Anapanasati Sutta (Mindfulness of Breathing) – copies available online, however an excellent translation may be found on p. 941, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, a new translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, translated by Bikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, Wisdom Publications, Boston, 1995. And, Entry into the Inconceivable, An Introduction to Hua-yen Buddhism, translations and introduction by Thomas Cleary, University of Hawaii Press, 1983.

Makarora, South Island, New Zealand