Rigpa Melbourne

Saturday Morning Meditation
2022-10-22 09:30 - 10:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Rigpa Melbourne
9.30 am to 10.30 am every Saturday until 25th February 2023. From March, Drop in Meditation will move to the new time of 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm Sunday evening.
All welcome – simple instructions provided. Suitable for beginners and experienced meditators.
You are welcome to join for a coffee afterwards at a local cafe.
Suggest donation $10 /$5 if concession.
Any enquiries? Email melbourne@rigpa.org.au

Naturally at Ease with Dr Ian Gawler - Melbourne
2022-07-09 10:00 - 13:00 | Rigpa Melbourne
Natural at Ease
Mindfulness and Meditation with Dr Ian Gawler

Half Day Workshop : Saturday 9th of July 2022 10:00am-1:00pm.
Suitable for: both beginners and the more experienced
In person at our Melbourne Centre
803 Nicholson St Carlton North

Ian will present an overview of the Buddhist view of how the mind works, and practical meditation techniques to help you access your mind’s vast potential for happiness and wellbeing. Drawing on 40 years of meditation practice, Ian outlines techniques that have helped many people ameliorate stress, anxiety and burnout.
Ian says, Many people confirm that when they meditate, they feel so much more at ease, content, energized, focused and at peace, but when they go back to their everyday life they quickly get caught up in the busy-ness once more and lose it. This highly experiential session will focus upon how to bring the practice of mindfulness and meditation into your daily life so this calm, clear and peaceful mind can be with you always.
Suited to both beginners and the more experienced, we will meditate together and there will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.

Easter Retreat
2022-04-15 09:00 - 2022-04-18 17:00 | Rigpa Melbourne
Easter Retreat

Led by Dr Ian Gawler and supported by other Rigpa Teachers and Instructors
Online, and in person in Sydney and Melbourne
We invite you to spend this Easter ‘bringing your mind home’ through the practice of shamatha in the supportive company of a community of meditators.
Join us at the Melbourne centre or online
April 15th to 18th, 9.00am until 5.00pm for:

Talks about the practice and benefits of meditation
Guided shamatha meditation practices
Time for contemplation
Break periods in supportive silence
Question and answer sessions where you can clarify your practice with teachers and experienced practitioners.

Tell your friends about this retreat, all are welcome

The event will be available online for those who are unable to get to a centre. If you aren’t able to join at a centre in your city and you are a Rigpa member, we strongly encourage you to meet together with others to practice together.
Register at:
https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=926

Book Group 2022 - In Centre
2022-04-12 19:15 - 2022-07-01 20:45 | Rigpa Melbourne
In Centre Book Group –Tuesday 12th April 7:15pm – 8:45pm at 803 Nicholson Street Carlton North
We will be discussing Chapters 5-9

This new translation of the Buddha’s most important, most studied teaching offers a radical new interpretation.
In The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries, Thich Nhat Hanh provides the new translation with commentaries based on his interpretation. Revealing the Buddha’s original intention and insight makes clear what it means to transcend duality and pairs of opposites, such as birth and death, and to touch the ultimate reality and the wisdom of non-discrimination. By helping to demystify the term emptiness, the Heart Sutra is made more accessible and understandable.

This is a very simple book of just 132 pages.
The content is profound, but there is not a lot of reading to do each month.
Cost for non subscribers is $60 & $45 to complete this text, or $20 & $15 per session.
We hope you will feel inspired to join us.

Inspiring a Revolution in Your Heart and Mind
2022-02-14 19:30 - 2022-03-14 21:30 | Rigpa Melbourne
Monday nights from 14 February 2022
In person at our Melbourne Centre. 803 Nicholson St, Carlton North
For registration contact: melbourne@rigpa.org.au
This course provides an introduction to meditation, and practical ways we can each cultivate the compassion that is already within us. It is based on the Buddha’s teachings on how our mind works, with simple, profound practices that have been practiced for generations in India and Tibet. Incorporating these practices into our lives brings us calm and peace, and enables us live a more meaningful, connected and fulfilling life.

Monday nights 6.30 to 8.30pm
Full-year course with several ongoing modules of varying length through the year.
You are welcome to join any or all of the modules.
Cost for non-members is $12 or $6 (conc)/session. Pay for the full module in the centre when each new module begins.

Leaning into Wisdom
2022-01-27 - 2022-01-30 | Rigpa Sydney, 158 Australia St, Newtown, NSW, 2042, Australia
A Retreat with Tibetan Buddhist teacher Khenpo Tsering Tashi
On the Sutra of the Heart of Transcendent Wisdom and Le’u Dünma
Thursday 27 – Sunday 30 January 2022
For all students from beginners to experienced
Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and online

Monday Evening Meditation
2021-11-15 19:00 - 2021-12-20 21:00 | Rigpa Melbourne

Living Mindfully
2021-07-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Rigpa Melbourne
This is a casual class – fee $20/$15. No need to register.
The program covers a variety of Buddhist teachings to help us live more mindfully, including:

Beautiful monsters
Karma beyond punishment and reward
Breaking free of self obsession
What’s actually going on
Abandoning anger
Emotions beyond good and bad
One pointedness body and mind
Working with anxiety
The art of working with negative emotions.

To book, please contact: melbourne@rigpa.org.au

Loving Kindness Course
2021-07-01 19:00 - 2021-08-12 21:00 | Rigpa Melbourne
An essential foundational Buddhist practice.

Commencing Thursday July 1st 2021 7-9pm
7 weekly Sessions – 1st July – 12th August inclusive
Learn about:
• The action of altruism
• Learning to love ourselves
• The power of invocation
• Compassion in working with ourselves
• The radiance of love and compassion
• Overcoming emotions
• Overcoming indifference
• Transforming hatred and resentment.
The course will include teachings and guided meditation practice by a variety of Buddhist teachers including Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrick Gaffney, Sharon Salzberg, Andrew Warr and Ian Maxwell. There will be ample opportunity for participants to engage in discussion and practice.

Cost: $210/$150
Course registration: melbourne@rigpa.org.au
Rigpa Centre, 200 Sydney Road, BRUNSWICK Ample parking at the rear of the building
