Often our mind can seem like a wild monkey, jumping restlessly from thought to emotion to thought. The good news is that we all have basic sanity. It is our essential nature. But mostly we do not know that. We identify ourselves with mad monkey mind and we suffer because we do not know […]
Expanding Our Heart: Love and Compassion in Everyday Life
An Experiential Workshop with Valerie Baker,
Newcastle in Person , Sunday 16th November, 9.30am - 4.30pm,
Carrington Memorial Hall, 1A Hargraves St Carrington, NSW 2294.
Mind is Like the Sky: Discover Inner Peace and Contentment in the True Nature of Your Mind In this course, we will learn to: · Sit with what is, cultivating a gentle curiosity toward our inner world. · Explore the space between thoughts, discovering the innate clarity and peace that is always present. · Work […]
Meditation in Action Buddhist meditation and philosophy for everyday activity Rigpa Brisbane is pleased to announce we are offering this new and exciting 5 week course starting Wednesday 5 November 2025. The course is open for in-person attendance for all. For more information and to register please click here. Enquiries: brisbane@rigpa.org.au
A seminar with Christine Longaker Discover how to live with a lighter, kinder heart. Many of us carry beliefs that we’re unworthy of love or beyond forgiveness, leaving us trapped in self-blame. But punishing ourselves only deepens our suffering. Through insight, compassion, and guided meditations, you’ll learn to soften your “inner critic,” release false beliefs, […]
We invite you to join us to investigate how self-centredness stacks up against a more compassionate view, look at some simple, practical things we can do to soften our self-obsession, and introduce loving kindness practice, one of the core entryways into the vast toolkit of the Buddhist compassion practices. 🗓️ Saturday 6 December ⏰ […]
This five-day retreat will take you to the heart of the revolutionary insight of Buddhism, that life and death are in the mind, and nowhere else. In Dzogchen—the most direct stream of wisdom within the teachings of Buddhism—the mind is revealed as the universal basis of experience: the creator of happiness and the creator of […]
This weekend course is an invitation to step out of that pattern and explore and experience meditation in its most natural form without pressure or performance.
The sense of fear is a useful tool for survival. Living in fear for fear's sake, however, can be paralysing. This session will present a short teaching by Dungse Jampal Norbu as he explores the root causes of our fear, and how we can cultivate the antidote to them. From the Buddhist view, fear arises […]
Join us on an experiential journey through The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Discover a deep and universal wisdom explored in the major themes of the book, and learn about their practical implications for living well. Suitable for people of any religion or of none, this course encourages you to reflect on the Buddhist teachings, […]
Join us on an experiential journey through The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Discover a deep and universal wisdom explored in the major themes of the book, and learn about their practical implications for living well. Suitable for people of any religion or of none, this course encourages you to reflect on the Buddhist teachings, […]
Drop-in Meditation, Tuesday Evenings, 6:30pm to 7:30pm.
Rigpa Newcastle
