Fear is one of the strongest emotions we may face, and anxiety can be utterly paralysing. The Buddhist teachings illuminate the deepest source of our fears, and offer a rich array of tools to help us pacify and ultimately conquer those fears. Invoking protection from small heartedness, we can access the courage to heal ourselves, […]
The Spiritual Path (Module 6 of the full-year course, new students are welcome to join) The first declaration that the Buddha made at the time of his enlightenment was: "Profound peace, free of complexity, natural simplicity, uncompounded luminosity." This module examines what enlightenment is and explores the practical training of the Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen Path […]
Often, we go looking for happiness, comfort and company outside of ourselves. Ultimately, however, deeper lasting contentment lies within ourselves. Through working with our own mind and heart, emotions like loneliness can be transformed and transcended so that we can feel comfortable in our own skin whether we are in a crowd or completely […]
The Buddhist teachings are adamant that the core of our being is fundamentally good. It is our negative emotions and misunderstandings that oppress us and lead to low self-esteem, insecurity and feeling unloved. Join us to investigate how we can begin to heal ourselves by acknowledging and connecting with the fundamental goodness and unconditional […]
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 […]
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 […]
