What if we could be in our world with calm and ease instead of stress and overwhelm? Do you ever find life can get overwhelming? We might search for ways to bring ourselves to a clear and peaceful mind, but often, our thoughts and emotions feel too powerful to be ignored. The busier we get, […]
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.
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, […]
Introducing the Tibetan Buddhist compassion practices centring on loving kindness. Loving kindness meditation restores our confidence and heals unresolved emotional wounds. It also puts us in touch with the fundamental goodness of our core being, unlocking a vast source of love and care for ourselves and others. 📍 Online and Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown. 🗓️ […]
All that is conditioned is impermanent, All that is tainted is suffering, All phenomena are empty and devoid of self, Nirvana is peace. It is often said that the mark of a real Buddhist is that they accept these four seals. These four statements encapsulate the uniqueness of the Buddha’s teachings and set those teachings […]
An introduction to meditation and practical advice from some of the foremost Tibetan Buddhist teachers of our age.
Adelaide, Sydney & Online
The Spiritual Path The first declaration that the Buddha made following 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 in terms of View, Meditation, and Action. To see directly the true ground of our […]
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.
The Tibetan Buddhist guidelines for living a compassionate life, summarized in the Seven Points of Mind Training, open the way for each of us to nurture our own good heart and offer a vital practical antidote to despair and despondency.
Online
Third Saturday of each month
Explore the Buddhist reasoning for the acceptance of rebirth and reincarnation. We’ll use the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths as a framework to help us take stock of our lives, inspire a shift in the way we see ourselves and the way we relate to the world around us. And we’ll examine karma, which is often […]
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 guilt and self-blame. But punishing ourselves only deepens our suffering and prevents us from realizing our natural state. Through insight, compassion, and guided meditations, you’ll learn to soften your […]
Bringing the Mind Home Take a deep dive into a rich variety of meditation techniques to transform your moods and emotions. And discover how the whole purpose of meditation is to transcend our ordinary mind, to discover our vast, wise and compassionate fundamental nature, which we have lost touch with. The highest goal of meditation […]
