Lam Rim Chen Mo Volume 1 with Geshe Samten

+8 Sessions (Continuing in Semester 2)

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to receive these important and profound teachings with Geshe Samten. You can catch up on sessions before teachings start again in February.

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Tib. Lam rim chen mo) is one of the brightest jewels in the world’s treasury of sacred literature. The author, Tsong-kha-pa, completed it in 1402, and it soon became one of the most renowned works of spiritual practice and philosophy in the world of Tibetan Buddhism. Because it condenses all the exoteric sūtra scriptures into a meditation manual that is easy to understand, scholars and practitioners rely on its authoritative presentation as a gateway that leads to a full understanding of the Buddha’s teachings.

Tsong-kha-pa took great pains to base his insights on classical Indian Buddhist literature, illustrating his points with classical citations as well as with sayings of the masters of the earlier Kadampa tradition. In this way the text demonstrates clearly how Tibetan Buddhism carefully preserved and developed the Indian Buddhist traditions.

This first of three volumes covers all the practices that are prerequisite for developing the spirit of enlightenment (bodhicitta).

Module 6 of Exploring Buddhism – Exploring the Conditions for Realisation

+ Modules 1-5 

The latest module of Exploring Buddhism is also available. This module focuses on the cultivating the conditions for realisation.

The Exploring Buddhism program syllabus prepares students to engage in more advanced Buddhist studies by introducing key Buddhist philosophical concepts and connecting them to the context of practice and realisation. It also familiarises students with text-based explanations.

Vipassana and Mahamudra: An Insight Meditation Course

+9 Sessions

This is part of our Advanced Meditation Series…

Vipassana, or higher seeing, meditation focuses on bringing about a profound shift in our perspective, or insight. This helps us to overcome the misconception and misperception that create suffering for us. A very popular form of vipassana practice is the mindfulness meditation of breathing presented in 16 steps. Mahamudra, or the Great Seal, is a specific lineage of practice for developing insight focusing on the mind itself.

In this course we will look at these two methods of cultivating insight, the underlying principles governing them, the conducive conditions needed, and the results we stand to gain through their practice.

Shamatha and Meditative Absorption: A Calm-Abiding Meditation course

+9 Sessions

This is part of our Advanced Meditation Series…

Shamatha, or calm-abiding, meditation aims to settle the disturbances and dysfunctions of our body and mind in meditation so that they can truly abide here and now peacefully and blissfully. This course will introduce the different conducive conditions we can bring together to facilitate this settling down of our body and mind. We will look at the steps and the process of shifting our meditative experience towards a state of deepening meditative absorption and the benefits we can gain from it.

Discovering Buddhism – Module 4: The Spiritual Teacher

+Modules 1,2 and 3

This is part of our Advanced Meditation Series…

Shamatha, or calm-abiding, meditation aims to settle the disturbances and dysfunctions of our body and mind in meditation so that they can truly abide here and now peacefully and blissfully. This course will introduce the different conducive conditions we can bring together to facilitate this settling down of our body and mind. We will look at the steps and the process of shifting our meditative experience towards a state of deepening meditative absorption and the benefits we can gain from it.

New Teachings with Venerable Chodron

• Living a life that matters
• Transforming Knowledge into Action

New Teachings with Venerable Robina

• How Afflictons Deceive Us
• Who’s Responsible for Our Suffering?
• Understanding and Working with Anger

All these great titles plus access to hours of teachings from world-renowned teachers including:

• Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• Geshe Samten
• Geshe Tenzin Zopa
• B. Alan Wallace
• Venerable Robina Courtin
• Venerable Thubten Chodron
• + Many, many more!