Rigpa Australia

If you were inspired by the Walk for Peace, we warmly invite you to join our regular Loving Kindness Compassion practices. Every Monday and Wednesday 6.00pm – 6.20pm AEDT 
(8.00am Central European Time, 3.00am Eastern USA,12:00 midnight Pacific USA)
https://rigpa.org.au/guided-meditation-sessions/
#Peace #compassion #Empathy #LovingKindness

Make Friends with Your Mind
Your mind can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. This session will introduce simple meditation practices that allow us to glimpse the pure mind that underlies all our emotions so that we can find lasting peace and sanity.
Spend time with your best self on a journey from sadness and anger to peace and joy. The timeless wisdom and meditative insights of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition offer many practical methods to help us heal and thrive as we face the everyday challenges of anxiety, depression, anger, physical pain, loneliness, and burnout.

🗓️ Saturday 21 March
⏰2:00-4:30pm
📍Rigpa Melcourne, 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North

https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1355

#Meditate #mindfulness #Melbourne #MeditateInMelbourne

For the 24 hours starting 7:00pm AEDT on 21 March, we will be accumulating The Great Cloud of Blessings: the Prayer which Magnetises All that Appears and Exists.

https://prajnaonline.org/live/wang-du-festival-24-hour-accumulation

Wondering how to explain #Buddhism to your children? This episode of #Bluey draws on a #Buddhist story to show that all of us experience #sickness and #death.
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/bluey/series/1/video/CH1702Q034S00

Or take a deep dive into death, impermanence and interconnectedness:
https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?id=1350&reset=1

Key insights from the Buddha’s life and teachings to show how, through meditation and shifting our focus inwards, we can find true, unending contentment.

https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1357

#buddhist #buddhism

Researchers at the University of Melbourne are inviting beginner meditators to take part in a long-term study exploring how egular meditation relates to quality of life over time.

https://trialfacts.com/current-trial/meditation-study-tf966/

#meditation #mindfulness #beginmeditating #universityofmelbourne

Fergus Neal is a comedian, writer & the co-host of the On It Off It podcast. In this interview, he talks about his creative rituals for clarity and equilibrium, which include meditating for 20 minutes every day. 20 minutes is the exact length our daily online meditation sessions! Join us online soon.

Inherited: https://open.spotify.com/episode/48r6DPnim4ZXAyKRTV4EMf
20 Minutes A Day: https://registration.rigpa.org.au/DailyMeditation

Key insights from the Buddha’s life and teachings to show how, through meditation and shifting our focus inwards, we can find true, unending contentment.

https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1357

#buddhist #buddhism

Presenting key Buddhist teachings on the powerful logic of compassion and practical methods for developing a kinder relationship with ourselves, those around us and ultimately all beings.

🗓️ Tuesdays, 5 weeks starting 17 March
⏰6:30-8:30pm
📍Rigpa Adelaide, 310 South Terrace, Adelaide

https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1358

#MeditateInAdelaide #Adelaide

If you were inspired by the Walk for Peace, we warmly invite you to join our regular Loving Kindness Compassion practices. Every Monday and Wednesday 6.00pm – 6.20pm AEDT 
(8.00am Central European Time, 3.00am Eastern USA,12:00 midnight Pacific USA)
https://rigpa.org.au/guided-meditation-sessions/
#Peace #compassion #Empathy #LovingKindness

We’re so excited that Dominique Side will be visiting Australia in October. She’ll be teaching in Sydney, Melbourne and Newcastle.

Meanwhile it’s not too late to join her online interactive course:

The Buddha’s wisdom reveals a new way of seeing the world and ourselves in it. Buddhist teachings offer reflections that challenge our usual ways of thinking and invite us to question our values and assumptions.

This interactive course is an exploration of the key points of Buddhist thought. We will examine these perspectives closely to see the similarities and differences between Buddhist views and contemporary ideas. We will be invited to revisit our own views and clarify for ourselves what our outlook on life actually is. This process leads to far greater confidence in the way we see things

https://prajnaonline.org/course/new-way-of-seeing-the-world-2026

#buddhism #mindfulness #ideas #see

Make Friends with Your Mind

Your mind can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. This session will introduce simple meditation practices that allow you to glimpse the pure mind that underlies all our emotions so that you can find lasting peace and sanity.

🗓️ Saturday 21 March
⏰2:00-4:30pm
📍Rigpa Melbourne, 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North

https://rigpa.org.au/event/make-friends-with-your-mind-melbourne/

#meditation #MeditateInMelbourne #mindfulness

It is crucial to realise that #compassion is not simply an adjective one puts on in relation to the #Buddhist path of #meditation, but something that requires introspection. It requires tremendous #courage, contemplation, and #insight into human nature.

https://prajnaonline.org/video/compassion-requires-courage
#JetsunKhandroRinpoche

Discover how to live with a lighter, #kinder heart. Through #insight, #compassion, and guided meditations, you’ll learn to soften your inner critic.
Cultivating compassion for yourself, you’ll naturally feel a genuine understanding for others.

https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?id=1313&reset=1

Living in fear for fear's sake can be paralysing. This session will present and discuss a short teaching by Dungse Jampal Norbu as he explores the root causes of our fear, and how we can cultivate the antidote to them.

https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1326

#DungseJampalNorbu #Fearless

Living in fear for fear's sake can be paralysing. This session will present and discuss a short teaching by Dungse Jampal Norbu as he explores the root causes of our fear, and how we can cultivate the antidote to them.

https://rigpa.org.au/rigpa-adelaide/

#DungseJampalNorbu #Fearless

During this reflective conversation, blending modern #insights on the “attention economy” with the timeless wisdom of #Buddhist philosophy, we will explore how to navigate—and thrive in—an environment increasingly shaped by #AI.

https://rigpa.org.uk/clarity-and-cognisance-discerning-the-human-mind-from-a-i/

To begin this Tibetan New Year auspiciously and mark the centenary of Tertön Sogyal, Lerab Lingpa’s parinirvana we are delighted to share a special teaching by Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche on the life of this remarkable tertön.

https://prajnaonline.org/compilation/the-life-of-terton-sogyal-lerab-lingpa/video/his-early-life

#buddhism #TibetanBuddhism

Claudia Karvan, award winning actor, producer and story maker, speaks to The Imperfects podcast about her life and some of the lessons she has learnt along the way. Including how reading the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying prompted deep reflection on her own mortality and how that influences her appreciation of daily life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qH4vBr0i6Y
#ClaudiaKarvan #TibetanBookofLivingandDying

Free online guided meditation
7:15pm AEDT every Monday

A gentle, guided shamatha (calm abiding) meditation practise.
These 45 minute online sessions have been running since 2020 and are for both new and more established meditators.
Feel free to join us whenever you can.

Presented by Jonathan Hayward is a UK-based teacher and volunteer for Rigpa UK. He has a background in classical music and talking therapy, and lives in the Sussex countryside.

https://rigpa.org.uk/monday-morning-online-meditation/

An experiential journey through The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, giving you a taste of its major themes and their #practical implications. Reflect on the #Buddhist teachings, to see what makes sense to you.

https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1320

#meditation #mindfulness #buddhism

Through meditation our mind begins to settle, and as it does, something extraordinary takes place. Our negativity, pain and frustration are all defused and we experience a feeling of peace, space, and freedom, and out of this, comes a profound stillness.
https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?id=1347&reset=1

Join us to discuss the challenges facing members of the #LGBTQI+ community in their search for their own #identity and delve a little deeper into how we can foster a healthy, expansive sense of self-identity.

https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?id=1349&reset=1

Join us to discuss the challenges facing members of the #LGBTQI+ community in their search for their own #identity and delve a little deeper into how we can foster a healthy, expansive sense of self-identity.

https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?id=1349&reset=1

Identifying as LGBTQIA+ often comes with deep questions about your own identity. Buddhist practices offer practical tools to support finding answers to those questions.

https://www.mardigras.org.au/event/power-up-your-heart/

#mardigras #MardiGras2026 #SydneyMardiGras #QueerSydney #MingyurRinpoche

Simple, practical ways to nurture our own inner goodness and find the peace and courage to live well in the face of a world full of stress, anxiety and disconnect

https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1331

#compassion #lojong #buddhism #meditation

Through meditation our mind begins to settle, and as it does, something extraordinary takes place. All the fragmented aspects of ourselves come home, and we become whole. Our negativity, pain, suffering, and frustration are all defused and we experience a feeling of peace, space, and freedom, and out of this, comes a profound stillness.
Happiness depends entirely upon our mind and so it is vital to take care of our mind. Most importantly, we need to understand and transform our mind. Generally, we spend our lives distracted from our true selves, in endless activity, leaving nobody at home.
Meditation then is bringing the mind home.

📍Rigpa Melbourne, 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North
🗓️ Wednesday evenings, for 5 weeks starting 25 February
⏰ 6.30pm-8.00pm

https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?id=1347&reset=1

#meditation #mindfulness #MeditateInMelbourne

Identifying as LGBTQIA+ often comes with deep questions about your own identity. Buddhist practices offer practical tools to support finding answers to those questions.

https://www.mardigras.org.au/event/power-up-your-heart/

#mardigras #MardiGras2026 #ECSTATICA #SydneyMardiGras #QueerSydney #MingyurRinpoche