Aotearoa Buddhist
Education Trust
Car stickers ... and for elsewhere too
In green and yellow like this website, four new car stickers are now available. To get one send a message using the Contact Us page with your postal address saying which one(s) you want. 
First teacher supported
We have supported our first teacher. ABET trustee Viv Blackshaw has received $694 towards the costs of bringing insight dialogue teacher Gregory Kramer from Seattle to New Zealand.
Nelson meeting on ABET
DHARMA DISCUSSION
What is the Aotearoa Buddhist Education Trust
Come for afternoon tea and a discussion with two of the trustees, Ramsey Margolis and Brigid Lowry
Sunday 14 February 2010 • 3-4pm
23 Britannia Heights, Nelson
-- info Brigid 03 548 2877
Slow take off but the journey’s a long one
Launched in September 2009, Aotearoa Buddhist Education Trust has received donations from a small number of people in the first three months, but the extent of the generosity has been both truly heart warming and surprising. We’re aware it will take time for the wider dharma community to become aware of the fact that ABET exists, to see value in the work of the trust, and decide to support it. What has been given, though, has taken the trustees by surprise.
Tricycle community group created
All you social networking people out there will be interested to learn that a group called Aotearoa Buddhist Education Project has been created in Tricycle magazine’s online community. Come on down and network with us!
Newsletter interview
INSIGHTAotearoa is the monthly newsletter of New Zealand's insight meditation practitioners and communities. Editor Deborah White interviewed the ABET trustees for the October issue.
Creating opportunities for generosity
To embrace dukkha is to fully embrace the suffering of the world. When the Buddha talks of the path, the whole business beginning with fully knowing dukkha, it’s also an injunction to compassion. When we begin to be more attuned to the tragic nature of our own existence, when we begin to wear down the rigidity of our selfcentredness, that has the effect of making us more empathetically open to the far, far greater suffering that is going on all around us; in others, in the environment.