Practical tips for daily formal meditation

Speaker: Ajahn Achalo

Facilitator: Tina Ng

Wed 6 July | 7-8.30pm

Location: In person at Metta Centre (Bankstown) or Online (Zoom link below)

Cost: By donation

This is the follow up session to Ajahn Achalo’s earlier session about the importance of daily formal meditation to increase mindfulness and ways to create this daily habit. The sessions are very interactive, with attendees offered the valuable opportunity to receive practical advice from Ajahn Achalo about their meditation practice and daily meditation. You do not need to have attended the earlier session to join this session. All welcome.

About the Presenter:

Ajahn Achalo will be joining us from Thailand. Ajahn Achalo was born in Australia in 1972. He developed a keen interest in meditation at the age of twenty and a year later left for Thailand to study Buddhism more intently. After a two year period practising in various centres and monasteries, in 1996 Ajahn Achalo ordained as a Bhikkhu (monk) under Ajahn Liem at Wat Pah Pong, the monastery founded by venerable Ajahn Chah. Although most of his training has taken place in Thailand, Ajahn Achalo has also lived in several International Forest Monasteries in the Ajahn Chah lineage. Ajahn Achalo is deeply grateful for his many opportunities to study with well-practiced monks, as well as for having been able to train in several traditional contexts, including meditation monasteries, remote forests, and periods on pilgrimage. During his years of training, he has received personal guidance from many remarkable teachers, among them, Ajahn Sumedho, Ajahn Pasanno, Ajahn Jayasaro and Ajahn Kalyano. For most of his Bhikkhu life, he has considered Tan Ajahn Anan, abbot of Wat Marp Jan, to be his principal mentor. In addition, he has found the Dalai Lama’s instructions and example to be of tremendous value. On the website all of Ajahn Achalo’s Talks and Meditations have been presented in a more thorough and specialised context: https://www.peacebeyondsuffering.org/

Hybrid event: Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in an interactive session with the speaker, with the discussions facilitated by Tina Ng in person at the Metta Centre (Bankstown). As we invite speakers from all around the world and Sydney, our speaker for this event will be joining us by video. You are welcome to join the session in person at the Metta Centre or online by clicking on this link to access the session: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83506489824?pwd=cmpNQ1ljSmFVYURLWVN1dWllYUN1dz09 Alternatively, you can dial in from your telephone (call charges apply): +61 2 8015 6011 } Meeting ID: 835 0648 9824| Passcode: 718905