Rigpa Australia

The All Encompassing Path to Enlightenment
2026-09-03 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-09-10 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-09-17 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-09-24 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online via Zoom, Australia
The All-Encompassing Path to Enlightenment (AEPE) is the main study programme in Rigpa, for students of all levels: new, more advanced or in-between. This year, the AEPE will explore the main principles of the preliminary practices, called Ngöndro in Tibetan. Our most experienced Rigpa teachers will guide us through the key principles of the Ngöndro, helping us to explore these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity.
These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice, encompassing all the elements needed to prepare us to fully receive the Great Perfection teachings of Dzogchen, the highest and most direct stream of wisdom within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. So no matter where we are on our path, the AEPE will support us in taking it to completion.
Thursday evenings, all year
6:00-7:30pm AEDT (8:00am CET, 2:00am Mon US East)
Online via Zoom

Enlightened Courage: the Secret to Training and Transforming your Mind with Wisdom and Compassion. Term Seven, 2026.
2026-09-04 09:30 - 11:30, 2026-09-11 09:30 - 11:30, 2026-09-18 09:30 - 11:30, 2026-09-25 09:30 - 11:30
Enlightened Courage: the secret to training and transforming your mind with wisdom and compassion.
Term 7, 8 Sessions, 24 July – 25 September, including a 2 week break from 14 August – 21 August.
Online via Zoom and In Person, 2/2 Smith Street, Charlestown, 2290
Fridays, 9.30am – 11.30am.
/MAHAYANA/
This class is a continuing course made up of terms. The class features teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, this weekly course presents the Mahayana Seven Points of Mind Training. These points lay out a path of formal meditation practice, along with guidelines for extending that practice into everyday life.
These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.
At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.
Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.
8 weekly classes: Term 7, Friday Mornings, Term 7, 8 Sessions, 24 July – 24 September, including a 2 week break from 14 August – 21 August.
9.30am – 11.30am Australian Eastern Standard Time
Online via Zoom and In Person at 2/2 Smith Street, Charlestown. 2290
full $160, concession $80
Free for Rigpa subscribers/ members ( please email newcastle@rigpa.org.au to request the subscriber discount code ).
This is the seventh term of a continuing course. If you wish to join after the first two weeks of a term then please register and pay a pro rata amount by sending an email enquiry to newcastle@rigpa.org.au. If you are a newer student and would like to study this text please email Rigpa Newcastle at newcastle@rigpa.org.au.
