Meditation & Contemplative Living

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The Janssen Spirituality Centre offers a range of meditation and contemplative living programmes based upon the Holy Books of various religious faiths and teachings of mystics and contemplative writers.

1. Centering Prayer as taught by Fr Thomas Keating OCSO and Fr William Menninger OCSO, two Trappist monks from the United Statesd. READ MORE>>

2. Bede Griffiths Satsang Meditation Group offers a combination of guided meditation, breathing exercises, group chanting and spiritual teaching from Fr Bede’s writings. Time is also spent reflecting on the Upanishads. READ MORE>>

3. Christian-Sufi Meditation Group an opportunity to learn Sufi and Christian chanting as meditation techniques and to support one another in their meditation practice. READ MORE>>

4. Members of Christian-Zen Meditation Group seek to grow in an appreciation of Mindfulness Meditation, sometimes called vipassana-meditation. READ MORE>>

5. Thomas Merton Meditation Groups seek to grow in contemplative awareness of the Divine in their daily lives. READ MORE>>

6. East-West Meditation Foundation promotes inter-religious dialogue and meditation and acts on behalf of the Monastic Inter-religious Dialogue (MID) in Australia. READ MORE>>

Programs

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

In the spirit of reconciliation, the Society of the Divine Word, Australia Province, acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea, sky, and community.

We acknowledge their skin-groups, story-lines, traditions, religiosity and living cultures.

We pay respect to their elders, past, present, and emerging, and extend that respect to all indigenous peoples of New Zealand, Thailand, and Myanmar.

We are committed to building with them, a brighter future together.

The Arnold Janssen Spirituality Centre for Inter-religious and Cross-cultural Relations, commonly known as KARUNA, is an initiative of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) Australia Province

22 Woodvale Road, Boronia VIC 3155
Phone: (03) 9762 6625 | Email: Contact Us

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