Limerick Insight Meditation Centre

Limerick Insight Meditation Centre Welcome to the Limerick Insight Meditation Centre's "About Us" page. We will try to answer these questions: what kind of meditation do we teach and practice?

Who are "we"? What are our current activities and plans? And then we will invite you to stay in What kind of meditation do we teach and practice? Almost all of what we are planning to do under the auspices of the Limerick Insight Meditation Centre involves a form of Insight Meditation called Mindfulness Meditation. It is also called "Insight Meditation" and, in Pali, "vipassana." This is an ancien

t practice that began over 2500 years ago and is deeply relevant to our lives today. It connects us with our capacity to be present in each moment with an open-hearted awareness of everything that is happening, whether inner or outer. Using mindfulness we can become directly aware of what it's like to be a human being and come to understand in direct experience our feelings, emotions, pains, joys, and pleasures. When we practice this in-the-moment awareness, our hearts and our awareness awakens to a depth of peace and clarify which liberates us from the suffering created by fear, worry, stress, anxiety, self-criticism, negativity and confusion. This practice becomes the gateway to joy, inner peace, wisdom, compassion, and the acceptance of ourselves and others.

22/06/2024

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“I don't know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.” -- Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

18/06/2024

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People say to me, "I can't do all that, I'm just an ordinary person, a layman; when I think of doing all that, I realize I can't do it, it's too much for me." I say, "if you think about it, you can't do it, that's all. Don't think about it, just do it." Thought only takes you to doubt. People who think about life can't do anything. If it's worth doing, do it. ~ Luang Por Sumedho

16/06/2024

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The word "meditation" can mean all kinds of things. It's a word that includes any kind of mental practice, good or bad. But when I use this word, what I'm mainly using it for is that sense of centering, that sense of establishing, resting in the centre of the mind. The only way one can do that is to not try and think about or analyze it; you have to trust in just this simple act of attention, of awareness. It's so simple and so direct that our complicated minds get confused. ~ Luang Por Sumedho

14/06/2024

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We all have the ability to reflect, to observe and watch the mind – to be the observer of mind-states rather than becoming lost in them. All these mind-states we experience can teach us – they are important messages. We live not only with the results of our own kamma but also with the character tendencies of those around us. And, until we learn how to watch the mind in the right way, we suffer unnecessary fear and anxiety from the endlessly changing conditions within and around us.
Soon after I joined the Sangha I was taken by Ajahn Chah to meet a very senior monk, Luang Por Khao. Somebody had given Ajahn Chah a Philips tape recorder. This was back in the sixties, when there were only reels, not even cassettes. Ajahn Chah loved gadgets so when we visited all these old Ajahns in the North East, Ajahn Chah would record them. At this time I still couldn’t understand the Thai language very well, so on that occasion I didn’t understand much of what was being said and just sat there until it was time to leave. Eventually Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Maha Amorn, who was with him, got up to leave but Luang Por Khao, who was sitting in a wheelchair, beckoned for me to come over. He couldn’t speak English, but he gave me a profound sermon. He said, in Thai: ‘The truth of Dhamma is here’, and he pointed to his heart.
It was a brilliant teaching. I couldn’t understand the language very well, but I could understand that. It has stayed with me ever since. That message is the way of reflective observation of suffering, its causes and the absence of suffering. You see and know the Dhamma in your heart, not from what people tell you or by reading about it in books. ~ Luang Por Sumedho

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