East Meets West Meditation in Cairns, Queensland, Australia | Mental health service

East Meets West Meditation

Locality: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 434 412 198

Address: Level 1/142-144 Grafton Street 4860 Cairns, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.dragonflyzen.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Intense times call for intense practice. But in the world, as in the zendo, intensity does not mean straining or pushing; rather, it is a willingness to begin fresh. Bonnie Myotai Treace, Rising to the Challenge: Filling the Well with Snow

25.01.2022 Ajahn Punnadhammo is such a wonderful teacher! Describing in an accessible way, even the most difficult concepts of the Dharma. https://youtu.be/8Vs2L2Wd3nc

25.01.2022 Having said that, if at first you can only manage 5 or 10 minutes - do 5 or 10 minutes. Remember, the greatest atheletes started with just a few pushups a day!

23.01.2022 The more my actions are motivated by generosity, lovingkindness, and the wisdom of interdependence, the more I can relax and open up to the world. David Loy, Rethinking Karma

22.01.2022 The scientific evidence is unassailable. Gratitude is the most powerful of all positive emotions. Indeed it has been demonstrated that gratitude is the very pavement upon which the path to wellbeing and flourishing is formed.

21.01.2022 Reminding everyone that Sunday afternoon meditation practice is on. When: 4pm Sunday 11 April, 2021 Where: Dragonfly Zen; level 1/142-144. Grafton Street, Cairns Cost: $15

21.01.2022 May the beauty of the Deepavali festival fill your heart with joy and today on this Diwali may the Goddess Maa Lakshmi who represents ‘Moksha’ which is liberation by self knowledge, remove all blockages and obstacles on your path in the coming year!

20.01.2022 My suspicion is that the Buddha would be happy about this!

20.01.2022 Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. Gautama Buddha The Kalama Sutta

18.01.2022 Throughout my adult life I have found it endlessly fascinating to observe the disciplines of modern Western science slowly 'catch up' with what the ancient wisdom traditions of the East have known for thousands of years. http://www.sci-news.com//consciousness-fundamental-quality

17.01.2022 Wednesday evening 7pm at Dragonfly Zen we will continue our positive mindfulness programme. This week we celebrate and reinforce our personal character strengths. Far to often we engage in unhelpful self talk focusing on our weaknesses. In this practice we turn that around! ... Hope to see you there! Much love Patrick Lynch-Robinson

17.01.2022 What will you choose right now - grievance or miracle? There is still time to make your list! What are the five magnificent awakenings that blessed you in 2020? What lessons did you learn? ... What inspirations have sparked inside you? What choices did you make that were nourishing?

16.01.2022 Once you recognize that everyday reality is merely a reflection of some deeper truth that’s close at hand but hidden from view, you’ve embarked on a search that you can never really abandon, no matter how far you seem to stray. Stephan Bodian, Encountering the Gateless Gate

15.01.2022 "A monk decides to meditate alone. Away from his monastery, he takes a boat and goes to the middle of the lake, closes his eyes and begins to meditate. After a few hours of unperturbed silence, he suddenly feels the blow of another boat hitting his. With his eyes still closed, he feels his anger rising and, when he opens his eyes, he is ready to shout at the boatman who dared to disturb his meditation. But when he opened his eyes, saw that it was an empty boat, not tied up, ...floating in the middle of the lake ... At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization and understands that anger is within him; it simply needs to hit an external object to provoke it. After that, whenever he meets someone who irritates or provokes his anger, he remembers; the other person is just an empty boat. Anger is inside me." Thich Nhat Hanh

15.01.2022 This Sunday, 11 April, at 4pm in beautiful Dragonfly Zen; level 1 142-144 Grafton Street Cairns, we will focused on the first of our spiritual Chakras the Throat Chakra - Vishuddha. Vishuddha purifies toxin from our physical, mental and spiritual bodies. Indeed the Vedas are clear that without the cleansing power of the throat chakra the path towards discernment, higher discrimination, ultimate truth and cosmic consciousness or enlightenment are said to be closed to us. I ...look forward to seeing you all. Much love Patrick

15.01.2022 Good day to my regular Sunday afternoon meditators, and of course to those who are considering joining us for the first time! Firstly, happy new year! I'm so looking forward to seeing you again! Over the last week I've been reviewing our programme of Chakra balancing and healing practices and I thought we might begin the year, as we concluded last year, with Metta (Buddhist Loving Kindness Meditation). ... These are intermediate to advanced practices and are of 40 minutes duration. We will, of course begin with a short concentration practice. So be prepared for about 50 minutes of meditation in total. We supply mats, bolsters and cushions. However if you have a favorite cushion at home feel free to bring that along. The practice I have chosen is inspired by the great Theravadin Master Ajahn Chah (Phra Bodhiñathera). Because it is me, you will hardly be surprised that also contains elements of the Mahayana Mahamudra in which we empower our meditation invoking a power from your personal spiritual practice. Because of Covid I have limited space, so please remember to book your place. You can do that via this page, or simply message me and I will book you in. When: 4:00pm Sunday 7 February, 2021 (try to arrive at least 5 minutes early so you can settle into your comfortable posture). Where: Dragonfly Zen Level 1/ 142-144 Grafton Street, Cairns City) above Cyrus Carpets). Cost: $15 per person or $60 for 5 sessions

14.01.2022 Our final Sunday Chakra practice for 2020 will be 29 November, and the final Wednesday evening Positive Mindfulness class for 2020 will be 2 December. Sunday Chakra will recommence on 7 February 2021 and Positive Mindfulness practice will recommence on 10 February 2021. Thank you to all who accompanied me on this 2020 meditative odyssey. The energy you each delivered to my classes was always powerful and always made practice meaningful and so very healing. ... Know that every one of you are amazing and I’m grateful that your path and mine met during this very strange year! As for me, I’m going to celebrate the end of 2020 by finding a Vipassana Retreat somewhere here in Far North Queensland and recharge my spiritual batteries ready for whatever 2021 has in store! Much love and Namaste Patrick Lynch-Robinson

14.01.2022 In the same way clouds are not the sky, nor waves the ocean; we are not our thoughts, we are not our emotions. We are the watcher and the watcher is eternal.

12.01.2022 Realizing that all things change, there is nothing to cling to ... Focus your mind from wandering By Awareness of original oneness Keeping one’s Heart open to infinite Sky The Sage observes the outer moonlight Eclipsed only by the inner Light of the Essence Each sentient being in the entire Cosmos Returns within to original Source Saigy Hshi (1118-1190)

10.01.2022 Remember that you don’t have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy. The more you can develop this attitude toward people you know have misbehaved, the more you’ll be able to trust your intentions in any situation. Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Head & Heart Together

09.01.2022 Look in between the thoughts rather than at them. When you walk through a crowd, you don’t fight everyone you meet you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. Nisargadatta Maharaj

09.01.2022 My apologies for the pretty ordinary climate control during our Sunday practice! Perhaps my love of the ancient precludes me from competence with remote controls! Even those to an air conditioning unit! Next time I will hand the remote control to Di Henderson prior to the session!

09.01.2022 Just a reminder that Sunday Practice is on at 4pm tomorrow, Dragonfly Zen, level 1/142-144 Grafton Street, Cairns City. Please book, either on the East Meets West page or by sending me a message. Much love... Patrick Lynch-Robinson See more

07.01.2022 Baruch de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher considered one of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy, along with Descartes. Here is the ‘plain English’ translation of his famous Stop Praying (Spinoza) : God would say:...Continue reading

07.01.2022 Good afternoon meditators, If you want to attend the 10 week course Beginners Meditation: Living to Thriving, please message me so I can book you in. When: Commences 6.30pm Wed 17 February, 2021... Where: Dragonfly Zen, Level 1/142-144 Grafton Street Cairns City Cost: $165 for 10 weeks. https://fb.me/e/5AbskMwnt

07.01.2022 As many of my regulars are aware, I like to book end the Chakra programme with a series of tantric healing practices. This Sunday I will do the first of three, being physical healing. Where: Dragonfly Zen When: Sunday 4pm Cost $10 or $40 for five sessions.... Much love Patrick

06.01.2022 "The Buddha said that rich or poor, young or old, human or animal, no being in this world can maintain itself in any single state for long. Everything experiences change and deprivation. This is a fact of life we cannot remedy. But the Buddha said that what we can do is contemplate the body and mind to see their impersonality, to see that neither of them is 'me' nor 'mine.' They have only a provisional reality.... Like your house, it's only nominally yours. You couldn't take it with you anywhere. The same applies to your wealth, your possessions, and your family they're yours only in name. They don't really belong to you; They belong to nature" Ajahn Chah

06.01.2022 Welcome to module 6 of our 7 part Positive Mindfulness course. This week we focus in on personal meaning. It is widely held in positive psychology that discerning our personal meaning and living our purpose helps us proceed in life in a manner which is filled with satisfaction and fulfilment. Where! Dragonfly Zen Level 1 142-144 Grafton Street, Cairns City... When! 7pm Wednesday 25 November 2020 Cost $10 per person See more

05.01.2022 At the level of spirituality there is little that separates Christianity from Buddhism! Ponder the writings of Brother David Steindl-Rast and what we know from the Dharma! Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness. Day and night, gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; ...a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them. Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a celebration of the universal give-and-take of life, a limitless yes to belonging. A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream. Gratefulness is the key to a happy life, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more. ~ Brother David Steindl-Rast

04.01.2022 Happy Méan Earraigh or Ostara! Here in Australia we are not celebrating the joys of Spring as the Vernal Equinox marks the official beginning of Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere! However, we in the Far North can certainly celebrate surviving yet another hot muggy wet season and cyclone season (although we send our thoughts to Coastal NSW who are struggling).

04.01.2022 As science delves deeper and deeper into the Quantum field, the wisdom of the Vedic civilisation, which flowered over 5000 years ago in the Indus Valley, has been confirmed. All that you see, and all that you feel, is frequency and vibration.

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03.01.2022 Someone once asked me, "What would it feel like to have burned up all those seeds, to be a person who no longer has any aggression?" The person who asked this was thinking that such a person might be pretty boring. No juice, no passion. I answered that I really wouldn't know from personal experience, but I imagine that such a person would be great company. If you dissolved your aggression, it would mean that other people wouldn't have to walk on eggshells around you, worrie...d that something they might say would offend you. You'd be an accessible, genuine person. The awakened people that I've known are all very playful, curious, and unthreatened by things. They go into situations with their eyes and their hearts wide open. They have a real appetite for life instead of an appetite for aggression. They are, it seems, not afraid to be insecure. ~ Pema Chodron ~

03.01.2022 Mostly I’m quite serious on my page, seeking to provoke thought and generally inform. Then sometimes I’m not

01.01.2022 Hello Meditators! This Sunday at 4pm in the beautiful Dragonfly zen, levell 1/142-144 Grafton Street Cairns we will focus on opening and balancing the Heart Chakra Anahata! The Anahata Chakra is the seat of the Divine Self (Atma). The qualities of the heart Chakra include bliss, peace, harmony, love, understanding, empathy, clarity, purity, unity, compassion, kindness and forgiveness. Here is the centre of our emotion body which impacts the way we feel our world. An open and balanced Anahata is a wondrous gift we give ourselves.