Daily Meditation

Dear friends, due to an event at the centre, there will be NO 0n-site guided meditations from 17th to 23rd March. Our next meditation will be on Monday 24th March at 9am.

Thanks for your understanding and we’ll see you soon.

Dzogchen Beara Community

Our meditation classes are currently held in our Spiritual Care Centre. Please follow the signs.

Meditation: Monday to Sunday from 9am to 9:45am

Meditation is bringing the mind back home, and this is first achieved through the practice of mindfulness.

Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.

The practice of mindfulness, of bringing the scattered mind home, and so of bringing the different aspects of our being into focus, is called ‘Peacefully Remaining’ or ‘Calm Abiding’. This is the first practice on the Buddhist path of meditation.

Every session is suitable for beginners and is guided by an experienced instructor. You can sit on a chair or on a cushion on the floor, wherever you are comfortable and there are no difficult postures or complicated techniques.

Loving Kindness Meditation: Monday to Friday from 2:15pm to 3pm

“The water of compassion courses through the canal of loving kindness”. -Maitreya

Loving-kindness meditation can be practiced by anyone, people of all faiths or none. All are welcome to attend, no prior experience needed.

From the Buddhist point of view, love is the wish that living beings find happiness and its causes. One of the meditation practices that helps us cultivate this wish for others’ happiness is called ‘loving kindness’, or metta in the Pali language. It carries a sense of unconditional warm-heartedness and kindness, a kind of deep caring, tenderness, a good heart.

When our hearts and minds are filled with love we naturally experience happiness and well-being. Loving Kindness meditation is a method that helps us to develop a more and more unconditional love, starting with developing a healthy and loving relationship with ourselves and then extending that out into all our relationships and ultimately to all beings.

“Loving Kindness meditation has been a highlight for my heart and soul. Each time is a kind of adventure bringing me deeper into myself, lighting and piercing clouds of doubt, judgement and untruth with gentleness. Powerful stuff”. -Maura Dunne

“It’s of huge benefit to my meditation and loving kindness practice to be able to join. Your teachers are all amazing and so kind and supportive. Thank you. ” Margaret Ireland