Lunchtime Meditation Practice - Every one welcome!

Offered in December via YouTube Live

This weekly Mindfulness Meditation Practice allows you to meditate with others every Thursday lunchtime, either at the Library or online via YouTube live. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced, this drop-in class will help support you in establishing and strengthening your practice.

Each month we invite a guest teacher to facilitate the meditation practice. Come once, come every week – OR if you prefer, connect once, connect every week – for this informal gathering.

Teachers for December:

4 December – Ayya Jitindriya

Ayya Jitindriya first trained as a monastic in the Theravada Forest Tradition lineage of Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho for over 16 years. After leaving the monastic order in 2004 she gained a Master’s degree in Buddhist Psychotherapy with the Karuna Institute in the UK. In the following years she practiced as a Buddhist psychotherapist and taught meditation, Buddhism and psychotherapy in various capacities, including as Director of Training for the Australian Association of Buddhist Counsellors and Psychotherapists (AABCAP) for several years. In early 2018 Jitindriy? re-entered monastic life at Santi Forest Monastery in NSW, and held the role of guiding teacher there for a time. In 2021 she co-founded Viveka Hermitage in Southern NSW where she now resides, sharing the dhamma both in person, locally, and online.

11 December – Ayya Samaneri Jayasara

Samaneri Jayasara has studied and practised Buddhism and meditation in various capacities for over 35 years. She has a PhD and Master’s Degree in education, focusing on comparative spiritual traditions, Buddhism and psychotherapy. She has taught psychology and counselling at secondary, undergraduate and post-graduate levels and has trained personnel in the mental health and crisis intervention welfare sector. Originally ordained as an Anagarika (8-precept nun) in the Therevada Forest tradition in 2002, she resided in WA and the UK. Re-entering the monastic life as a Samaneri (10-precept nun) in 2018 at Santi Forest Monastery, she developed Santi as a monastery (also) for female monastics. In 2021 Jayasara moved to Viveka Hermitage (southern NSW) where the developed her online project, the “Wisdom of the Masters” channel. She has a strong interest in the non-dual teachings of different spiritual traditions and loves to share them.

Please Note:

Unlike our previous sessions, these two sessions will be delivered via YouTube live, to both our IN PERSON and ONLINE attendees.

For our IN PERSON attendees, the Buddhist Library will have a big screen and we will project the YouTube live meditation – no knowledge of link needed

For our ONLINE attendees, please join at the respective times with the respective links, as shown below. When the time will come to go live, you will have the direct streaming from our two monastics:

Thursday 4 December 2025, 12:15-13:00 pm – Ayya Jitindriya – please access live YouTube session via link: https://youtube.com/live/DLOEU7AlOHw

Thursday 11 December 2025, 12:15-13:00 pm – Ayya Samaneri Jayasara – please access live YouTube session via link: https://youtube.com/live/4KZ0CVKhfQQ

To register, please head to:

https://buddhistlibrary.org.au/events/weekly-thursday-mindfulness-meditation-practice/

Dana

This event is offered by Donation to the Buddhist Library.

All Sessions are by Donation (Dana) to the Buddhist Library. All donations to the Buddhist Library of $2 and over are tax deductible.

Dana is the traditional practice of generosity, the extending of one’s goodwill, which is fundamental to Buddhism and other spiritual traditions. The instructions and guidance for this course are offered without requesting a fee and it is up to individuals to determine the amount of dana they would like to offer.