Compassion: the doorway to the heart

Compassion, loving kindness, is needed in every area and on every level of human life, because we human beings all feel hurt, pain and suffering.

The tenderness of compassion helps us to stay sensitive and open when there is hurt, to not close our hearts.

In fact, compassion toward hurt opens our hearts, which contain all the riches that makes us human.

More than that, we need an open heart for the inner journey, because the heart is the compass that is magnetically pulled toward the deeper truths of our nature. and allows us to go deeper.

On this three-day online retreat, we will explore compassion as a aspect of our essence, a quality of our own deeper being. We will look at how we get disconnected from it, how we can rediscover and develop our connection to it, and how to apply it to our own inner journey.

This retreat is open to all. If you are interested in understanding and developing compassion, or exploring the truth of their experience, or learning more about the path of the Diamond Approach, you are welcome to join us.

On the Diamond Approach and the New Aotearoa Group

Every spiritual path deals with our common human situation, and each path deals with it differently. The Diamond Approach is a relatively new path, for people living a full human life in the world, who want to know who and what they are beyond their usual stories and ideas about themselves. It uses a range of powerful practices, as well as modern psychological knowledge, to help each person to explore their own experience in ways that bring deeper understanding, as well as the gradual revelation of our spiritual nature, in its vast rainbow of qualities and dimensions.

The Diamond Approach has been taught in New Zealand for over a decade. There is a large, established group that has developed over that time, which is now closed to new members. Diamond Approach New Zealand is now in the process of forming a new group, for those with a sincere interest in inner work and spiritual discovery. 

Retreats normally involve meditation, a teaching, experiential exercises in pairs, threes, or small groups, and opportunities to ask questions, share experiences and inquire further with a teacher. 

This retreat will mark the formal beginning of the new group. Retreats will remain open to the public and new people can join the group for the next few years. When the group has reached a sustainable size and composition, it will close to new members. 

Students joining after March 2025 will need to make up the material taught between that date and when they join the group.

Times 

Friday     6.30-9.30  

Saturday   9.30-12.30

                    2.00-5.00 

Sunday    9.30-12.30

                     2.00-5.00

End times are approximate. 

Included in the cost of this retreat are two follow-up teaching sessions:

• Small Group Meeting: July 23, 6.30-9pm OR July 26, 9.30am-12pm

• Interim Teaching: August 16, 9.30am-12.30pm

Cost: $495

Current ongoing DANZ1 students repeating material pay $195.