Event Series Sunday Meditation

Sunday Meditation

Rigpa Melbourne 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia

All are welcome to join this 1-hour drop-in meditation session. Sit quietly with others and rest your mind before the week starts again. Simple instructions provided. Suggest donation $10 or $5 if concession. Enquiries: melbourne@rigpa.org.au

The Wisdom of Compassion: The Four Immeasurables

Rigpa Melbourne 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia +1 more

The Four Immeasurables—the cultivation of loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity—offer a rich suite of practices that open the heart, counter the distortions in our relationships to ourselves, and deepen our relationships to others.   To spell it out more fully: Equanimity is the wish that beings may be free from the attitude of attachment […]

Our Inner Freedom: Looking Within | Melbourne, Sydney and Online

Rigpa Melbourne 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia

The Buddha’s life and teachings show that we all encounter change and loss. Our lives are changing all the time, often in  small ways, but sometimes impermanence turns our whole world upside down. Sometimes, the experience of such a powerful reminder of impermanence can be frightening;  and we feel an urgent need to question and […]

Our Inner Freedom – Looking Within | Melbourne, Sydney and Online

Rigpa Melbourne 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia

The Buddha’s life and teachings show that we all encounter change and loss. Our lives are changing all the time, often in small ways, but sometimes impermanence turns our whole world upside down. If we can take the message of impermanence and death to heart fully we can discover the deathless nature of mind that […]

Inspiring a Revolution Melbourne : Module 7 – Open Heart

Rigpa Melbourne 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia

This course takes participants on an experiential journey through The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, over 8 modules. It inspires students to continue their exploration of these teachings through continuing with the subsequent modules, giving you a taste of its major themes and their practical implications. Suitable for people of any religion or of none, […]

$80

Rigpa Melbourne Film Night 2

Rigpa Melbourne 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia

Rigpa Melbourne Famous Film Nights  Two screenings: Saturday 14 October & Saturday 21 October All welcome.  6pm for 6.30pm start Fund-raiser – two movies each night - $20 donation/night Supper of home-made cakes and chai – bring a plate to share if you can Raffle of a beautiful thangka + a door prize   The main feature film each night (14 […]

$20

Rigpa Melbourne Film Night

Rigpa Melbourne 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia

Rigpa Melbourne Famous Film Nights  Two screenings: Saturday 14 October & Saturday 21 October All welcome.  6pm for 6.30pm start Fund-raiser – two movies each night - $20 donation/night Supper of home-made cakes and chai – bring a plate to share if you can Raffle of a beautiful thangka + a door prize   The main feature film each night (14 […]

$20

Mind Training: Parting from the Four Attachments

Rigpa Melbourne 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia

A study of teachings given by Sakya Trizin. This is a profound introduction to Buddhist View and Wisdom, suitable for newcomers and seasoned practitioners alike. 8 weekly sessions, commencing 7 pm Tuesday 28th February and finishing Tuesday 18th April 2023. Parting from the Four Attachments is a short teaching spoken by Manjushri to the Sakya […]

Cultivating Compassion, Melbourne

Rigpa Melbourne 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia

A thousand years ago, a Tibetan monk, Geshe Chekhawa, summarised the Tibetan Buddhist guidelines for living a compassionate life into seven key points, known as the Seven Points of Mind training. For generations, his pithy slogans have laid the way for students to nurture their own compassionate nature and put it into action in everyday life. In a world where acts of unkindness, large and small, can leave us in despair and feeling powerless these teachings offer a vital practical antidote.