Experiencing the Awakened Mind and Unconditional Love
2024-07-23 19:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
We all have a limitless resource of love, compassion and wisdom within us.
This five-week course presents :

penetrating Buddhist analysis of the impermanence and interdependence of our lives, to give us a clear-eyed view of ourselves and the world around us
a deep understanding that to act compassionately is to act in accord with the truth of how the world is, and
how Buddhist practices, that remind us of these truths, open the path to our own long-lasting happiness and the benefit of all beings

Held over five Tuesday evenings from 7 – 9pm, from 23 July to 20 August, 2024.
Melbourne: 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North
Sydney: 158 Australia St, Newtown
Online via Zoom
Note – this course is also known as Module 3A of the Wisdom of Compassion full year course. New students are welcome to join this module.
Led by western meditation instructors with many years of experience, each session consists of:

Video teachings from Tibetan and Western Buddhist masters including Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche, Pema Chödrön and Sharon Salzberg ;
Meditation practice ;
Time for contemplation ;
Group discussions and Q&A, offering each student the opportunity to explore the teachings and practices in an open supportive environment and to connect with a community of practitioners

Free for Rigpa members/subscribers using a discount code. Please email sydney@rigpa.org.au for the code.

Turning Suffering and Happiness into Enlightenment/Term 3/Online
2024-07-26 09:30 - 11:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online via Zoom, Australia
The Buddhist teachings show us a way to find a deep sense of fulfillment that does not depend on outer circumstances and is naturally ours. Through a process of reflection and meditation, we find inner strength, which allows us to fully and fearlessly engage with everything we experience in our lives. Then, all our experiences – happy or sad, good or bad – will become a source of personal growth and spiritual awakening: they have the potential to open our eyes and our heart, and make us grow wiser and more compassionate.
Turning Suffering and Happiness into Enlightenment will present teachings that offer commentary of the classic, short and pithy text, Taking Happiness and Suffering on our Path, by the great Dzogchen master Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima. This text presents the Buddha’s teachings on how to transform suffering and happiness in a manner that is easy to understand and put into practice.
Details for Term 3
Where: Online
When: Friday mornings, eight sessions, 26 July to 27 September with a break from 16th August to Friday 23rd August
Time: 9.30am – 11:30 am, Australian Eastern Time
(Thursday 11.30pm Central European Time; Thursday 5.30pm US East Coast Time)
This is the third term of a year-long 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 newcastle@rigpa.org.au.
Cost for Term 3:
Eight sessions: Full $160, Concession $80
If you are experiencing financial hardship please email us at newcastle@rigpa.org.au to request a further concession.
FREE for Rigpa members/subscribers. Please email newcastle@rigpa.org.au to request the discount code.

Working with body and Mind
2024-08-03 09:30 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Adelaide, 310 South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
Working with body and Mind
Saturday 3 August | 9.30am – 12.00 noon
How to Survive Your Mind – mindfulness, awareness and compassion practices for yourself in everyday life.
A monthly program on the first Saturday of the month that introduces you to meditation and discusses a topic of general interest.
This month’s topic is Working with body and Mind.
Feel free to come along to any session that suit you. No need to register, just drop in.
Fee: Standard $15, Concession/Student $10
We do not have credit card facilities, please bring cash.
Cost negotiable depending on your financial circumstances.
Location: Rigpa Adelaide
The Theosophical Society Building
1st Floor, Upper Hall
310 South Terrace, Adelaide
The door on the ground floor will be open from 9.15am.
If you arrive after 9.30am, please text the mobile number on the door and someone will come downstairs and let you in.

Overcoming Fear and Anxiety
2024-08-03 15:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
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, transform our fear, and develop as expansive confidence that empowers us to help others.
🗓️ Saturday 3 August
⏰ 3-5pm AEST 7-9am CEST
📍Online & Sydney

Liberation: Is it possible in this life?
2024-08-04 09:30 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
No matter who we are, we all share the same wish to be happy and free from suffering. But when we are immersed in the responsibilities of this life and in all our frenetic daily activity, it may seem impossible to achieve liberation, that is only for special beings. But nothing could be further from the truth: when we realize the suffering caused by our way of living in samsara, a desire arises within us to be free from it, and the practice of the dharma offers us the possibility of liberation in this life.

This session is part of our Monthly Sangha Gathering series presenting highlights from: The Way of the Great Perfection , a new cycle of the All-Encompassing Path to Enlightenment

August Monthly Sangha Gathering: The Way of the Great Perfection
2024-08-04 09:30 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | nsw
Sunday 4 August, 9.30am-1.00pm
In Person at the Sydney Centre (158 Australia Street, Newtown) & Online
In August we will present: Liberation: Is it possible in this life? – a teaching by Alain Beauregard
No matter who we are, we all share the same wish to be happy and free from suffering. But when we are immersed in the responsibilities of this life and in all our frenetic daily activity, it may seem impossible to achieve liberation, that is only for special beings. But nothing could be further from the truth: when we realize the suffering caused by our way of living in samsara, a desire arises within us to be free from it, and the practice of the dharma offers us the possibility of liberation in this life.
This session is part of our Monthly Sangha Gathering series presenting highlights from: The Way of the Great Perfection , a new cycle of the All-Encompassing Path to Enlightenment.
The ground is our buddha nature,
The support is this precious human life,
The wonderful circumstance is meeting a spiritual teacher, and
The method is the pith instructions through which we can realise our true nature, the buddha.
Gampopa, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation
The All-Encompassing Path to Enlightenment is the main study programme in Rigpa, for students of all levels: new, more advanced or in-between. In this cycle, The Way of the Great Perfection, we will explore the main principles of the preliminary practices in a fresh way. These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice.
The preliminary practices, called Ngöndro in Tibetan, encompasses 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 Buddhist tradition of Tibet.
So no matter where we are on our path, this new cycle will support us in taking it to completion. Our senior and most experienced Rigpa teachers will guide us through the key principles of the Ngöndro, helping us to discover or revisit these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity.
Each session will offer guided contemplations, group meditations, exercises and discussions.
The goal of this multi-year programme of The Way of the Great Perfection is for us to arrive at a thorough and complete understanding of what the teachings tell us about the different methods of Buddhist practice, to reach a complete certainty on how we apply them in daily life, and ultimately realise the innermost nature of our own minds.
We warmly invite you to attend in person at our National Centre in Newtown but if this is really not possible for you, you may join online by Zoom.
Held on one Sunday each Month, 9.30am – 1.00pm
Next sessions on 4 August, 1 September, 27 October, 3 November, 1 December
Cost: Adult: $20, Concession $10, Rigpa Subscribers (members): free
(Subscribers, if you have not received a discount code, please email sydney@rigpa.org.au.)
Please Note: Sangha members who wish to engage in this All Encompassing Path Program: The Way of the Great Perfection more fully please email us at newcastle@rigpa.org.au.
Lapsed sangha members who wish to reengage with sangha studies can also contact us at the above Newcastle Rigpa email address.

Module 6 | Inspiring a Revolution in Your Heart and Mind | Melbourne
2024-08-12 18:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Melbourne, 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Melbourne, Victoria, 3054, Australia
Module 6: The Spiritual Path
Join us as we take you 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, to see what makes sense to you and to experiment with applying these teachings in your daily life.
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is widely regarded as one of the most complete and authoritative presentations of Tibetan Buddhism. A manual for life and death and a source of sacred inspiration from the heart of the Tibetan tradition, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying provides a lucid and inspiring introduction to the practice of meditation, to the nature of mind, to karma and rebirth, and to the trials and rewards of the spiritual path. The teachings, meditation and contemplations from this authentic tradition reveal how each of us can live a more meaningful, connected and fulfilling life.
You will learn

How to meditate
How an acceptance of impermanence can help us understand death and change our attitude towards life
How meditation can transform our perception, increase our confidence and fully connect us to the world around us
That mind is much more than just thoughts and emotions
How understanding the interdependency of all things and the principle of karma (that every action has an effect) gives us a logical basis for ethics and personal responsibility

Led by Western meditation instructors with many years of experience, each session consists of:

Video teachings from Tibetan and Western Buddhist masters including Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche, Pema Chödrön and Sharon Salzberg.
Meditation practice
Time for contemplation
Group discussions and Q&A, offering you the opportunity to explore the teachings and practices in an open supportive environment.

How We Live is How We Die | Rigpa Sydney Book Group
2024-08-20 10:30 - 12:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a day, the end of a relationship, and ultimately the end of life. And accompanying each ending is a beginning, though it may be unclear what the beginning holds. In How We Live Is How We Die, Pema Chödrön shares her wisdom for working with this flow of life—learning to live with ease, joy, and compassion through uncertainty, embracing new beginnings, and ultimately preparing for death with curiosity and openness rather than fear. 💖
Rigpa Sydney’s book group meets on the third Tuesday of each month.
Everyone Welcome
⏰10:30am – 12.30pm AEST
📍in person at Rigpa Sydney

Free Your Mind with Love
2024-08-27 19:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
The Buddhist practice of ‘equalizing self and others’ as expressed in giving with great love and taking with great compassion, known as tonglen, is one of the most useful and powerful of all Buddhist practices. Tonglen is a simple and straightforward practice, which is extremely effective at getting to the heart of our predicament: our excessively self-centred attitude. Tonglen opens you to the truth of the suffering of others; it helps you to reveal the loving, expansive radiance of your own nature. And it offers extraordinary power in destroying the self-cherishing and self-absorption which is the root of all our hard-heartedness and all our suffering.
Held over five Tuesday evenings from 7 – 9pm, from 27 August to 24 September, 2024.
Melbourne: 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North
Sydney: 158 Australia St, Newtown
Online via Zoom
Note – this course is also known as Module 3B of the Wisdom of Compassion full year course. New students are welcome to join this module
Led by western meditation instructors with many years of experience, each session consists of:

Video teachings from Tibetan and Western Buddhist masters including Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche, Pema Chödrön and Sharon Salzberg;
Meditation practice;
Time for contemplation;
Group discussions and Q&A, offering each student the opportunity to explore the teachings and practices in an open supportive environment and to connect with a community of practitioners.

FREE for Rigpa members/subscribers using a discount code. Email sydney@rigpa.org.au for the code.

Following the Path with the Aid of a Spiritual Friend
2024-09-01 09:30 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
The relationship between a student and a living teacher is an integral part of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. In this session we’ll look at some important aspects of this element of the spiritual path.

Inspring a Revolution in Your Heart and Mind | The Spiritual Path
2024-09-04 18:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
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 of Inspiring a Revolution in Your Heart and Mind examines what enlightenment is and explores the practical training of the Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen Path in terms of View, Meditation and Action. To see directly the absolute state, the Ground of our being, is the View; the way of stabilizing that View and making it an unbroken experience is Meditation; and integrating the View into our entire reality, and life, is what is meant by Action.

The Heart of the practice - understanding the radiance of Wisdom and Compassion
2024-09-07 09:30 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Adelaide, 310 South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
The Heart of the practice – Understanding the radiance of Wisdom and Compassion
Saturday 7 September | 9.30am – 12.00 noon

How to Survive Your Mind – mindfulness, awareness and compassion practices for yourself in everyday life.
A monthly program on the first Saturday of the month that introduces you to meditation and discusses a topic of general interest.
This month’s topic is The Heart of the practice – understanding the radiance of Wisdom and Compassion.
Feel free to come along to any session that suit you. No need to register, just drop in.
Fee: Standard $15, Concession/Student $10
We do not have credit card facilities, please bring cash.
Cost negotiable depending on your financial circumstances.
Location: Rigpa Adelaide
The Theosophical Society Building
1st Floor, Upper Hall
310 South Terrace, Adelaide
The door on the ground floor will be open from 9.15am.
If you arrive after 9.30am, please text the mobile number on the door and someone will come downstairs and let you in.

Overcoming the Conceptual Mind through Meditation
2024-09-07 15:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
When we meditate, calling upon three key principles of calm abiding (mindfulness, awareness and abiding spaciously) can transform our meditation practice to take us beyond being trapped in our ordinary conceptual mind, to a deep experience of what our mind is truly capable of. Applying mindfulness, awareness and abiding spaciously as we go about our everyday activities, means that every moment can become an opportunity for transformation and awakening.

🗓️ Saturday 7 September
⏰ 3-5pm AEST 7-9am CEST
📍Online & Sydney

Inspiring a Revolution in your Heart and Mind
2024-09-10 18:30 - 2024-10-08 20:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Adelaide, 310 South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
Inspiring a Revolution in your Heart and Mind
A journey through The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

5-week course – Tuesdays, Beginning 10 September to 8 October
6.30pm to 8.30pm
This course takes participants on an experiential journey through The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, giving you a taste of its major themes and their practical implications. Suitable for people of any religion or of none, the course encourages you to reflect on the Buddhist teachings, to see what makes sense to you and to experiment with applying these teachings in your daily life.
Participants in this course will learn:

How to meditate
How an acceptance of impermanence can help us understand death and change our attitude towards life
How meditation can transform our perception, increase our confidence and fully connect us to the world around us
That mind is much more than just thoughts and emotions

Led by Western meditation instructors with many years of experience, each session consists of:

Video teachings from Tibetan and Western Buddhist masters including Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche, Pema Chödrön and Sharon Salzberg.
Meditation practice
ime for contemplation
Group discussions and Q&A, offering each student the opportunity to explore the teachings and practices in an open supportive environment and to connect with a community of practitioners.

FREE for Rigpa subscribers.
Location
Rigpa Adelaide
1st Floor Theosophical Society Building
310 South Terrace, Adelaide
Event Fee(s)
5 weeks – full ($15 per session) A$75.00
5 weeks – concession ($10 per session) A$50.00
One session only (full) A$15.00
One session only (concession) A$10.00
Register here.
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is available for purchase at our centre for $20. (Please bring cash – we do not have credit card facilities)

Module 7 | Inspiring a Revolution in Your Heart and Mind | Melbourne
2024-09-16 18:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Melbourne, 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Melbourne, Victoria, 3054, Australia
Module 7: Open Heart
Join us as we take you 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, to see what makes sense to you and to experiment with applying these teachings in your daily life.
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is widely regarded as one of the most complete and authoritative presentations of Tibetan Buddhism. A manual for life and death and a source of sacred inspiration from the heart of the Tibetan tradition, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying provides a lucid and inspiring introduction to the practice of meditation, to the nature of mind, to karma and rebirth, and to the trials and rewards of the spiritual path. The teachings, meditation and contemplations from this authentic tradition reveal how each of us can live a more meaningful, connected and fulfilling life.
You will learn

How to meditate
How an acceptance of impermanence can help us understand death and change our attitude towards life
How meditation can transform our perception, increase our confidence and fully connect us to the world around us
That mind is much more than just thoughts and emotions
How understanding the interdependency of all things and the principle of karma (that every action has an effect) gives us a logical basis for ethics and personal responsibility

Led by Western meditation instructors with many years of experience, each session consists of:

Video teachings from Tibetan and Western Buddhist masters including Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche, Pema Chödrön and Sharon Salzberg.
Meditation practice
Time for contemplation
Group discussions and Q&A, offering you the opportunity to explore the teachings and practices in an open supportive environment.

Faith, Religion and Peace
2024-09-22 16:00 - 18:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
Do religions cause wars? Can faith bring peace to individuals and the world?
If faith can lead to inner peace, why are faith and religion often linked in our minds to war and conflict?
Leaders from local faith communities will speak, and Patricia Garcia AO from the Institute for Economics and Peace will present the results of their research into religion and war.
This event celebrates the United Nations International Day of Peace, and is part of the annual Raising Peace Festival

The Power of Mind: Kindness, Clarity & Insight
2024-09-25 19:00 - 20:45 (Australia/Brisbane) | Rigpa Brisbane, Unit 2/19 Enoggera Terrace, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
This brand new 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. The training particularly focuses on our relationships, which are like a mirror that shows us exactly where we are at. Our relationships also provide us with a way to dissolve the limitations that prevent the vastness of our true nature from fully manifesting.
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. This course will include topics like:

finding meaning in our lives, and connectedness with our world
overcoming loneliness and isolation
how to thrive in the face of difficulties
how to contribute to creating a more sustainable, kind, and compassionate world

The course will consist of seven classes on Wednesday evenings, plus two extended practice based classes where we gather for more in-depth mind training meditation practice.
🗓️ 7 weekly classes: 25 September – 13 November 2024 (course break on Wednesday 9 October)
⏰ 7:00-8:45pm AEST (Start time 11:00am CEST, 5:00am US East Coast)
* as this will be taught from Brisbane, times in other locations will change once summer time begins in some states in the second week of October. Please use this time zone calculator for full details
Practice days on Saturday 19 October and Sunday 10 November, 9:30am to 3:30pm AEST (Start time 10:30 AEDT, 1:30am CEST, 7:30pm US East Coast)
📍Online via Zoom and in person at Rigpa Brisbane, 2/19 Enoggera Tce, Red Hill.
💰full $200, concession $100, free for Rigpa paying subscribers (registration is still required, just close the payment page that comes up after registration.)

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2024-10-01 08:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
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Finding Inner Peace and Contentment
2024-10-05 09:00 - 2024-10-09 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
Spend five days immersing yourself in the Tibetan Buddhist wisdom tradition.
(If you can’t attend for five days, a weekend-only option is available.)
Join us in our Buddhist temple by the park to:
🌻 establish or deepen your daily meditation practice
🌻 learn how to work with distractions and obstacles that may arise during your practice
🌻 hear, contemplate and meditate on the essence of the Buddha’s teachings
🌻 create space to experience genuine inner peace and contentment
🌻 begin a lasting transformation of your life
You will be supported by experienced meditation teachers Jan van der Breggen and Marianne Gizycki, and receive video teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, a renowned master of the Tibetan Nyingma lineage and Dzogchen, or “Great Perfection”, tradition. The Dzogchen approach cuts to the essence of Buddha’s teachings to shows us who we really are: clear, wise, and fundamentally good.
Each day will feature a rich yet spacious program of teachings, guided meditation, and time for reflection and discussion.
📍Sydney and online

Mind is the subject of Dharma
2024-10-05 09:30 - 12:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Rigpa Adelaide, 310 South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
Mind is the subject of Dharma
Saturday 5 October | 9.30am – 12.00 noon

How to Survive Your Mind – mindfulness, awareness and compassion practices for yourself in everyday life.
A monthly program on the first Saturday of the month that introduces you to meditation and discusses a topic of general interest.
This month’s topic is Mind is the subject of Dharma.
Feel free to come along to any session that suit you. No need to register, just drop in.
Fee: Standard $15, Concession/Student $10
We do not have credit card facilities, please bring cash.
Cost negotiable depending on your financial circumstances.
Location: Rigpa Adelaide
The Theosophical Society Building
1st Floor, Upper Hall
310 South Terrace, Adelaide
The door on the ground floor will be open from 9.15am.
If you arrive after 9.30am, please text the mobile number on the door and someone will come downstairs and let you in.

Inspiring a Revolution in Your Heart and Mind | Open Heart
2024-10-09 18:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
An introduction to the Tibetan Buddhist compassion practices with a particular focus on loving kindness practice. Meditating on loving kindness can help us restore our love and confidence, and heal unresolved emotional wounds. It also puts us back in touch with the fundamental goodness of our core being, and once that has happened, we are able to love ourselves and others.

Bring a Big Heart to Everything that You Do
2024-10-15 19:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
Much as we may wish to be kind, caring and loving, often this may be difficult for us in practice. As we move from wishing to be more compassionate to grappling with how we put this into action, the Buddhist teachings include six tools in a how-to guide:
1. Generosity: cultivating the attitude of generosity.
2. Discipline: refraining from harm.
3. Patience: not being perturbed by anything.
4. Diligence: finding joy in what is virtuous, positive or wholesome.
5. Meditative concentration: not being distracted.
6. Wisdom: the perfect discrimination of all knowable things.
These are known as the Six Paramitas, or transcendent perfections and contain all the vital skills needed for us to transform our mind
and open our heart.
This ten-week course addresses each of the Six Paramitas in turn, offering a wealth of practical advice to help us put our best biggest heart into
action everyday.
Held over ten Tuesday evenings from 7 – 9pm, from 15 October to 17 December, 2024.
Melbourne: 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North
Sydney: 158 Australia St, Newtown
Online via Zoom
Note – this course is also known as Module 4 of the Wisdom of Compassion full year course. New students are welcome to join this module
Led by western meditation instructors with many years of experience, each session consists of:

Video teachings from Tibetan and Western Buddhist masters including Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche, Pema Chödrön and Sharon Salzberg;
Meditation practice;
Time for contemplation;
Group discussions and Q&A, offering each student the opportunity to explore the teachings and practices in an open supportive environment and to connect with a community of practitioners.

FREE for Rigpa members/subscribers using a discount code. Email sydney@rigpa.org.au for the code.

Module 8 | Inspiring a Revolution in Your Heart and Mind | Melbourne
2024-10-21 18:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Melbourne, 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Melbourne, Victoria, 3054, Australia
Module 8: Awakening Compassion
Join us as we take you 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, to see what makes sense to you and to experiment with applying these teachings in your daily life.
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is widely regarded as one of the most complete and authoritative presentations of Tibetan Buddhism. A manual for life and death and a source of sacred inspiration from the heart of the Tibetan tradition, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying provides a lucid and inspiring introduction to the practice of meditation, to the nature of mind, to karma and rebirth, and to the trials and rewards of the spiritual path. The teachings, meditation and contemplations from this authentic tradition reveal how each of us can live a more meaningful, connected and fulfilling life.
You will learn

How to meditate
How an acceptance of impermanence can help us understand death and change our attitude towards life
How meditation can transform our perception, increase our confidence and fully connect us to the world around us
That mind is much more than just thoughts and emotions
How understanding the interdependency of all things and the principle of karma (that every action has an effect) gives us a logical basis for ethics and personal responsibility

Led by Western meditation instructors with many years of experience, each session consists of:

Video teachings from Tibetan and Western Buddhist masters including Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche, Pema Chödrön and Sharon Salzberg.
Meditation practice
Time for contemplation
Group discussions and Q&A, offering you the opportunity to explore the teachings and practices in an open supportive environment.

Meditation in Action | Melbourne
2024-10-26 11:00 - 12:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Melbourne, 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Melbourne, Victoria, 3054, Australia
Meditation in Action
Are you looking to cultivate a calm and clear mind amidst the pressures of your daily life?
This course is intended for those who want to realise the benefits of meditation, wisdom and compassion, here and now in their daily life, to find more joy and spontaneity in every moment.
Meditation in Action will present these themes:

Week 1: Opening our hearts
Week 2: Spaciousness, mindfulness and awareness
Week 3: Thriving with change
Week 4: How to make everything spiritual
Week 5: Living in tune with reality
Week 6: Taking charge of your life

Meditation in Action is a 6-week course:

with one session per week every Saturday morning from 11:00 am to 12:30pm
from 26 October to 7 December,
in person at Rigpa Melbourne.

(We’ll be taking a break on November 23)
Learn and practice the ancient art of meditation, working with your heart and mind, to cultivate your awareness and spaciousness.
About Bodhi
At Bodhi, we explore together, how each moment can be an opportunity to develop that peace and clarity, for our own wellbeing and that of others.
Bodhi offers a comprehensive meditation, compassion and wisdom program combining the essence of 2500 years of Buddhist mind training with the insights of modern science. Our aim is to contribute to greater mental clarity and compassionate and connected co-existence in the world.
This Bodhi project was created by experienced meditation practitioners and teachers as members of the Rigpa world-wide community.
Each Bodhi event offers:

Inspiring short stories from the Buddha’s life
Guided contemplations
Creative group discussions
Time for reflection and contemplation
Different meditation methods
Answers to your personal questions
Practical tips for integrating your meditation practice into daily life

About Nigel Stone
Nigel has been engaged in Buddhist study and practice since 2004, including completing Rigpa’s 8-year intensive program. He’s been a Rigpa instructor and spiritual carer since 2009.
He came to his spiritual path following episodes of depression. He has applied conventional therapy, alongside Buddhist approaches of working with the mind, to lead a healthy and contented life.
His Buddhist training and practice has underpinned his professional clinical spiritual care work in hospitals and the community for the past twenty years. Nigel has managed and facilitated the Rigpa Spiritual Care Education Programme.
Nigel lives with his wife, Barb, in a suburban sanctuary that houses their art studio and meditation space.

About Beth Buchannan
Beth began studying and practising Buddhism in her twenties and is so grateful for the sanity and self-compassion it has brought to her personal and professional life. The Buddhist teachings have also given Beth confidence in being courageous and gentle when connecting with others in her practice as a social worker, and has provided a profound framework of meaning to reference and take refuge in. Beth lives in Melbourne with her three sons and two cats and has worked as a social worker in mental health and family violence.

How to Awaken Love and Compassion
2024-11-02 15:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
💖 When we believe that we don’t have enough love in us, there is a method for discovering and invoking it. Loving kindness is the first step we take away from selfishness and towards altruism, limitless compassion and our ultimate enlightenment. Through this practice, we learn to love ourselves, and create the basis for loving others. Filling our hearts with love is a way of being tremendously happy. It softens our heart and brings gentleness.
⏰ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (5am CEST, 9pm PDT)
🗓️2 Nov
📍in person at Rigpa Sydney & Online

How Sad is Your Love
2024-11-03 09:30 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
How does it change us to reflect on suffering and impermanence, and on the ways we create our own pain? The point is that it shows us that we can turn our life around by finding a new direction that is spiritual rather than mundane. And when we set out on the path in that new direction, we carry within us a vivid understanding of how entrenched suffering is, and a warm love for all those who are floundering.

Inspiring a Revolution in Your Heart and Mind
2024-11-05 08:00 - 2024-12-03 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Adelaide, 310 South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
The Great Deception – Understanding death and impermanence
This module takes us on a journey from an investigation of death and impermanence, through deep reflection on change and interdependence, to an appreciation of the immeasurable, indefinable potential of the true nature of our mind that is revealed beyond a mind that grasps at simple appearance.

“So, learn to die. And thou shall learn how to live. They shall non learn how to live,
that had not learned to die”.

5-week course
Tuesdays Beginning 5 November to 3 December
6.30pm to 8.30pm

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2024-11-07 08:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Melbourne, 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Melbourne, Victoria, 3054, Australia
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Inspiring a Revolution in Your Heart and Mind | Awakening Compassion
2024-11-13 18:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, 2042, Australia
This module of Inspiring a Revolution in Your Heart and Mind explores the Buddhist approach to practicing compassion and how to apply it in all situations. The first step to compassion is to realise that other people are just like you. They too wish to be happy and free from suffering. Then through the practice of Tonglen (giving and receiving), we begin to mentally take on the suffering of others with compassion, and give our happiness and wellbeing with love. So that ultimately our every action can be an act of compassion.
