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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, helping us to explore these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity.

These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice, encompassing all the elements needed to prepare us to fully receive the Great Perfection teachings of Dzogchen, the highest and most direct stream of wisdom within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. So no matter where we are on our path, the AEPE will support us in taking it to completion.

️ Thursday evenings, all year
⏰ 6:00-7:30pm AEDT (8:00am CET, 2:00am Mon US East)
Online via Zoom
free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

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, helping us to explore these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity.

These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice, encompassing all the elements needed to prepare us to fully receive the Great Perfection teachings of Dzogchen, the highest and most direct stream of wisdom within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. So no matter where we are on our path, the AEPE will support us in taking it to completion.

Online  

️ Thursday evenings, all year
⏰ 6:00-7:30pm AEDT (8:00am CET, 2:00am Mon US East)
Online via Zoom
free for Rigpa subscribers

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, helping us to explore these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity.

These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice, encompassing all the elements needed to prepare us to fully receive the Great Perfection teachings of Dzogchen, the highest and most direct stream of wisdom within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. So no matter where we are on our path, the AEPE will support us in taking it to completion.

️ Thursday evenings, all year
⏰ 6:00-7:30pm AEDT (8:00am CET, 2:00am Mon US East)
Online via Zoom
free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

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, helping us to explore these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity.

These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice, encompassing all the elements needed to prepare us to fully receive the Great Perfection teachings of Dzogchen, the highest and most direct stream of wisdom within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. So no matter where we are on our path, the AEPE will support us in taking it to completion.

Online  

️ Thursday evenings, all year
⏰ 6:00-7:30pm AEDT (8:00am CET, 2:00am Mon US East)
Online via Zoom
free for Rigpa subscribers

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
 Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
 Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
 Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
 Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
 Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
 Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
 Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
 Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
 Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
 Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

The secret to training and transforming your mind with wisdom and compassion

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

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, helping us to explore these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity.

These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice, encompassing all the elements needed to prepare us to fully receive the Great Perfection teachings of Dzogchen, the highest and most direct stream of wisdom within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. So no matter where we are on our path, the AEPE will support us in taking it to completion.

Online  

️ Thursday evenings, all year
⏰ 6:00-7:30pm AEDT (8:00am CET, 2:00am Mon US East)
Online via Zoom
free for Rigpa subscribers

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, helping us to explore these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity.

These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice, encompassing all the elements needed to prepare us to fully receive the Great Perfection teachings of Dzogchen, the highest and most direct stream of wisdom within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. So no matter where we are on our path, the AEPE will support us in taking it to completion.

️ Thursday evenings, all year
⏰ 6:00-7:30pm AEDT (8:00am CET, 2:00am Mon US East)
Online via Zoom
free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

The secret to training and transforming your mind with wisdom and compassion

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

In a world full of turmoil, stress, anxiety and disconnect, we are all looking for simple, practical ways in which we can nurture our own inner goodness and find the peace and courage to live well.

Geshe Chekawa’s summation of the Tibetan Buddhist guidelines for living a compassionate life, known as the Seven Points of Mind Training, have guided practitioners for more than a thousand years. His pithy slogans open the way for each of us to nurture our own compassionate nature and put compassion into action in everyday life. These slogans offer a vital practical antidote to despair and despondency.

Cultivating Compassion presents teachings on the Seven Points given by Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche accompanied by reflections from Traleg Rinpoche and Ringu Tulku Rinpoche.

Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche is one of the outstanding meditation teachers of our time. She is known for her penetrating wisdom and humour, conveying the Buddhist teachings in a concise and lively manner, enriched with personal anecdotes, which are of particular relevance to the everyday life of the modern, fast-paced world.

From the early 1980s onwards, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche was a pioneer in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to Australia and was a strong advocate of non-sectarianism. He taught extensively on many aspects of Buddhist psychology and philosophy, comparative religion, and Buddhist and Western thought.

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche has trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters including His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He is renowned for his ability to transmit complicated teachings with a remarkable warmth and simplicity.

This program is open to all, but does assume some familiarity with meditation and the Buddhist understanding of interdependence.

Online  

️ Saturday mornings, third Saturday of the month
⏰ 10.30am – 12.30pm AEDT (12:30pm CET, 6:30pm Fri US East)
 Online via Zoom
$20, concession $10, free for Rigpa subscribers

15 Feb, 15 Mar, 11 May, 21 Jun, 19 Jul
(We’ll take a break in April)

Register Now

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, helping us to explore these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity.

These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice, encompassing all the elements needed to prepare us to fully receive the Great Perfection teachings of Dzogchen, the highest and most direct stream of wisdom within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. So no matter where we are on our path, the AEPE will support us in taking it to completion.

️ Thursday evenings, all year
⏰ 6:00-7:30pm AEDT (8:00am CET, 2:00am Mon US East)
Online via Zoom
free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

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, helping us to explore these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity.

These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice, encompassing all the elements needed to prepare us to fully receive the Great Perfection teachings of Dzogchen, the highest and most direct stream of wisdom within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. So no matter where we are on our path, the AEPE will support us in taking it to completion.

Online  

️ Thursday evenings, all year
⏰ 6:00-7:30pm AEDT (8:00am CET, 2:00am Mon US East)
Online via Zoom
free for Rigpa subscribers

The secret to training and transforming your mind with wisdom and compassion

Featuring teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney, 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.

These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.

At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation. Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.

Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life.

Online  

️ Friday mornings, 10 weeks starting 7 Feb
⏰ 9.30am – 11.30am AEDT (11:30pm CET, 5.30pm Thu US East)
Online via Zoom
$200, concession $100, free for Rigpa subscribers

Each Month starting Sunday 23 February, 10am-11:30am

Join Venerable Robina Courtin each month for insightful and engaging teachings on Buddhism. With her unique blend of expertise, skill, and characteristic humour, Venerable Robina will unpack key topics on applying Buddhist principles in daily life, exploring the fundamentals of Buddhist psychology, and offering practical guidance on training and developing the mind.

Register for February’s teaching ‘The Job of a Buddhist’
View and register for  the monthly classes

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, helping us to explore these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity.

These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice, encompassing all the elements needed to prepare us to fully receive the Great Perfection teachings of Dzogchen, the highest and most direct stream of wisdom within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. So no matter where we are on our path, the AEPE will support us in taking it to completion.

️ Thursday evenings, all year
⏰ 6:00-7:30pm AEDT (8:00am CET, 2:00am Mon US East)
Online via Zoom
free for Rigpa subscribers

Register Now

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, helping us to explore these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity.

These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice, encompassing all the elements needed to prepare us to fully receive the Great Perfection teachings of Dzogchen, the highest and most direct stream of wisdom within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. So no matter where we are on our path, the AEPE will support us in taking it to completion.

Online  

️ Thursday evenings, all year
⏰ 6:00-7:30pm AEDT (8:00am CET, 2:00am Mon US East)
Online via Zoom
free for Rigpa subscribers