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Practising for Insight with Patrick Kearney
March 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Speaker: Patrick Kearney (Joining online)
Wed 6 Mar | 7-8.30pm AEDT
Location: In person at Western Sydney University (74 Rickard Rd, Bankstown City Campus), Room 1.4.34 on level 4 or Online (Zoom link below)
Cost: Free
Patrick’s talks will be on insight (vipassana), and specifically insight as understood in the Mahasi Sayadaw lineage.
In this talk we look at the basics of Mahāsi Sayādaw’s way of “insight meditation.” What are we doing when we take up the practice? And why are we structuring our practice in the way we do? Mindfulness practice is meant to bring us to “insight.” What does this even mean? And how does the practice we are doing move us along the insight trajectory?
About the speaker: Patrick has practised mindfulness meditation (satipaṭṭhāna vipassanā) since 1977. At that time there was little or no Buddhist meditation training available in Australia, so he spent years travelling in Asia and the USA working with teachers from different Buddhist traditions to learn the craft of meditation practice. Most of his training has been in the insight meditation lineage of Mahāsī Sayādaw of Burma, which included several years as a Buddhist monk. His main teachers were Sayādaw U Paṇḍita and John Hale. He has also trained in the Diamond Sangha lineage of Zen where his teachers have been Robert Aitken Rōshi and Paul Maloney Rōshi.
Patrick has been a full-time teacher of mindfulness meditation for over 20 years. He conducts residential and online retreats, workshops and seminars. He has studied early Buddhism at post-graduate levels and has a particular interest in the original teachings of the Buddha, before the invention of “Buddhism.” This allows him to bring the radical insights of the Buddha to our contemporary situation. He sees meditation as a physical practice that reconnects us with the felt world of our senses, allowing us to live our lives directly rather than through the cling-wrap of our habitual thinking.
Hybrid event: Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in an interactive session in person at the Metta Centre or online by clicking on this link to access the session: https://us02web.zoom.