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Join us for this inspiring prayer ritual. During Guru Puja (or Lama Chopa), we invoke all the lamas of the graduated path lineage beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha himself, extending to our present direct teachers who have shown us the path. We pay homage to them, make offerings, and request each of them to please bless our minds with the same realisations that they themselves have generated. By offering sincere heartfelt requests, we make our minds ripe to receive the full blessings of his precious lineage and quickly actualise the realisations we need to attain enlightenment.

Margaret Bohler has over 30 years’ experience leading pujas and rituals and has kindly agreed to lead these important pujas.

All are very warmly welcome. Offerings of flowers and wrapped foods welcome beforehand.

View our program page here

A regular group has been attending the Drop-in Meditation sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For those who have not yet attended these sessions, they provide a simple relaxing experience of settling the mind and do not require previous experience of meditation or pre-booking. Just drop in and enjoy!

One change from 1 July on is that Drop-in Meditation will no longer take place on Sundays. A reminder that Medicine Buddha healing meditation sessions, which are growing in popularity, are held on the third Thursday of the month, this month on Thursday 20 July.

If you think you could benefit from a soothing meditation session, then please feel welcome to attend one of these sessions in July.

View our program page here

Every Saturday morning

Qi in the Traditional Chinese Medicine stands for the life energy that is ever present in the environment and within our bodies. Chinese Thai Chi and Qi Gong health exercises work on the body to nurture enhance and nourish that Qi energy.

Indian Yoga tradition also works on the body to nourish the Prana, which is what they call life energy; it aims to work through the Nadis, energy channels, and Chakras.

Raul will work with both disciplines and integrate them, to give the students a possibility to improve their overall health and a wider understanding of their own practice; as well as train focusing their awareness within their own innermost being.

During the class we will be focusing on observing and nurturing the Qi/Prana energy in the body, as well as Chakras, Nadis and meridians.

Raul will be incorporating Hatha Yoga asanas, Pranayama and meditation with Chinese Qi energy and flow meditation exercises.

Find out more here

Presenters: Ven. Dharana Dassa Thero and Ven. Dr Mahinda Thero

Saturday 9 December 2023 | 8.30am-6 pm  (9am start)

Location – Western Sydney University, Bankstown City campus room BK-1.4.34

Cost – Free (Lunch and refreshments provided)

As sentient beings, we experience the world through our minds, and every moment is a new opportunity to perceive it differently. The world as we see it is a creation of our mind, shaped by our beliefs, experiences, and emotions. Science and technology have advanced thanks to our ability to understand the world around us, yet we have not still fully explored the functionality of our own minds. The mind is like a tool, one we’ve had since birth, yet don’t know how to properly use which, quite obviously, results in day-to-day troubles and mental health issues.

• 9:00am Sam’s Crusty Bread (232 Princess Highway, Corrimal)
• 9:20am Kinn Thai Restaurant (200 Crown St.)
• 9:25am Dong Phuong Supermarket (Keira St.)
• 9:30am Wan Long Supermarket (81 Campbell St.)

5 Monks go for alms round in Wollongong. The monks will come back to Bodhisaddha for the daily meal at 10:30am. And continue with the programme of the senior visiting monks dana meal offering and Dhamma Talk.

Download flyer for alms-route

Please join us at our end-of-year lunch at the Soul Brew Café at 243 Australia Street Newtown at 1pm on Sunday 10 December. (This will be straight after the Sangha Gathering.)

This is a golden opportunity to catch up with folks you may not have seen in a while, and to support a welcoming local restaurant. The café will provide a choice of three dishes and a beverage for $30 pp.

When: Tuesdays from 17th October | 6.30-7.30pm

Cost: Free

Location: In person at Western Sydney University (Bankstown City Campus), Room 1.4.34 on level 4

Join our rejuvenating yoga classes to help improve your inner balance, calm and focus. Perfect for anyone seeking to build strength, flexibility and stability, these classes will explore the mind-body connection through deliberate movements and breathwork. Don’t miss this chance to experience the transformative power of yoga. Bring your own yoga mat and towel.

About the Instructor: Yvonne Dang is an accredited yoga teacher who wants to share yoga’s many benefits with the community and welcomes all levels to join her in exploring and developing their practice. Her classes are designed to be accessible and engaging – she can’t wait to meet you on the mat!

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Every Saturday morning

Qi in the Traditional Chinese Medicine stands for the life energy that is ever present in the environment and within our bodies. Chinese Thai Chi and Qi Gong health exercises work on the body to nurture enhance and nourish that Qi energy.

Indian Yoga tradition also works on the body to nourish the Prana, which is what they call life energy; it aims to work through the Nadis, energy channels, and Chakras.

Raul will work with both disciplines and integrate them, to give the students a possibility to improve their overall health and a wider understanding of their own practice; as well as train focusing their awareness within their own innermost being.

During the class we will be focusing on observing and nurturing the Qi/Prana energy in the body, as well as Chakras, Nadis and meridians.

Raul will be incorporating Hatha Yoga asanas, Pranayama and meditation with Chinese Qi energy and flow meditation exercises.

Find out more here

When: Tuesdays from 17th October | 6.30-7.30pm

Cost: Free

Location: In person at Western Sydney University (Bankstown City Campus), Room 1.4.34 on level 4

Join our rejuvenating yoga classes to help improve your inner balance, calm and focus. Perfect for anyone seeking to build strength, flexibility and stability, these classes will explore the mind-body connection through deliberate movements and breathwork. Don’t miss this chance to experience the transformative power of yoga. Bring your own yoga mat and towel.

About the Instructor: Yvonne Dang is an accredited yoga teacher who wants to share yoga’s many benefits with the community and welcomes all levels to join her in exploring and developing their practice. Her classes are designed to be accessible and engaging – she can’t wait to meet you on the mat!

Know More

Join us for this inspiring prayer ritual. During Guru Puja (or Lama Chopa), we invoke all the lamas of the graduated path lineage beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha himself, extending to our present direct teachers who have shown us the path. We pay homage to them, make offerings, and request each of them to please bless our minds with the same realisations that they themselves have generated. By offering sincere heartfelt requests, we make our minds ripe to receive the full blessings of his precious lineage and quickly actualise the realisations we need to attain enlightenment.

Margaret Bohler has over 30 years’ experience leading pujas and rituals and has kindly agreed to lead these important pujas.

All are very warmly welcome. Offerings of flowers and wrapped foods welcome beforehand.

View our program page here

A regular group has been attending the Drop-in Meditation sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For those who have not yet attended these sessions, they provide a simple relaxing experience of settling the mind and do not require previous experience of meditation or pre-booking. Just drop in and enjoy!

One change from 1 July on is that Drop-in Meditation will no longer take place on Sundays. A reminder that Medicine Buddha healing meditation sessions, which are growing in popularity, are held on the third Thursday of the month, this month on Thursday 20 July.

If you think you could benefit from a soothing meditation session, then please feel welcome to attend one of these sessions in July.

View our program page here

Every Saturday morning

Qi in the Traditional Chinese Medicine stands for the life energy that is ever present in the environment and within our bodies. Chinese Thai Chi and Qi Gong health exercises work on the body to nurture enhance and nourish that Qi energy.

Indian Yoga tradition also works on the body to nourish the Prana, which is what they call life energy; it aims to work through the Nadis, energy channels, and Chakras.

Raul will work with both disciplines and integrate them, to give the students a possibility to improve their overall health and a wider understanding of their own practice; as well as train focusing their awareness within their own innermost being.

During the class we will be focusing on observing and nurturing the Qi/Prana energy in the body, as well as Chakras, Nadis and meridians.

Raul will be incorporating Hatha Yoga asanas, Pranayama and meditation with Chinese Qi energy and flow meditation exercises.

Find out more here

White Tara is the goddess of longevity and peaceful aspects for purifying the negative deeds that accumulated from many past lives, especially negativities that shorten our life.

This year we are doing a special White Tara retreat with six domes of light which is not only to remove the obstacles of life but also to achieve the four different types of Siddhis. Peaceful, enrichment, magnetising, and furious.

From Tuesday 26th of December to Thursday 28th of December 2023, STL will be conducting a White Tara retreat of Wish Fulfilling Wheel with Six Domes of Light.

Accommodations are available for those who wish to stay at the centre. Participants can also attend the centre during the retreat and leave at the end of the day.

There are no prerequisites for attending as the White Tara Empowerment will be given before the start of the first session of the retreat (please see program attached), however we do ask that participants to commit to the retreat in its entirety.

This retreat includes a vegetarian diet requirement and fasting during dinner time.

Venue: 71-89 Davenport Drive, Wallacia NSW 2745

Cost: $200 per person

RSVP by 5pm 18 December 2023

Please note that our room capacity is very limited (can accommodate up to 8 adults, 2-3 per room). Therefore, it’s very crucial that you RSVP by 5pm on 18 December 2023.

Details for payment by Electronic Funds Transfer:

Commonwealth bank of Australia

Sakya Tharpa Ling

BSB: 062110

Account Number: 10009527

Description: White Tara Retreat

When: Tuesdays from 17th October | 6.30-7.30pm

Cost: Free

Location: In person at Western Sydney University (Bankstown City Campus), Room 1.4.34 on level 4

Join our rejuvenating yoga classes to help improve your inner balance, calm and focus. Perfect for anyone seeking to build strength, flexibility and stability, these classes will explore the mind-body connection through deliberate movements and breathwork. Don’t miss this chance to experience the transformative power of yoga. Bring your own yoga mat and towel.

About the Instructor: Yvonne Dang is an accredited yoga teacher who wants to share yoga’s many benefits with the community and welcomes all levels to join her in exploring and developing their practice. Her classes are designed to be accessible and engaging – she can’t wait to meet you on the mat!

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Cost: Teachings during the pilgrimage are free. Participants pay for their own costs associated with the trip (such as flights, accomodation, food and any entry fees).

Join us on a Buddhist Pilgrimage in Thailand, led by Venerable Chao Khun Keng, to deepen your Buddhist practice as we visit Buddhist monasteries and spiritual places. Participants can attend all or part of the Pilgrimage with notice beforehand. We will organise the program and accommodation during the tour, and participants will pay their share in the accommodation and any other associated fees. Participants are to arrange their own flights. Spots are limited so please register so you don’t miss out on this special opportunity! To register or for more information please email: contact@mettacentre.com.

About our Guide: Venerable Chao Khun Keng Vinayadhamma Vidhes aka Ajahn Keng is a Singaporean monk from the Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Mun Buridatto. He was ordained in 1987 under the recommendation of Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Ajahn Geoffrey). Luang Phor Jiak Cundo, the later generation of Luang Pu Mun’s disciples, was also one of is teachers. Ajahn Keng was conferred the title of “Chao Khun” in 2013 by the King of Thailand. Currently, Chao Khun Keng is the Abbott of Santi Forest Monastery (JB) and the President of Palelai Buddhist (Singapore) and Wat Pa Doi Charen Tham at Omkoi. Listen to Chao Khun Keng’s talk at the Metta Centre here: https://youtu.be/gkaoMEOziWs

Take this timely opportunity to give yourself this gift of powerful purification practice to detox and uplift the mind in preparation for the new year ahead when the power of your practice will set you confidently in a positive direction and be a gift for others as well.

Participants are guided through the Vajrasattva Purification Practice, which involves meditation sessions throughout the day, along with visualisation and mantra recitation. This disciplined method encourages practitioners to skilfully regret our wrongdoings, purify them, and resolve to transform our efforts into positive actions to benefit all beings, and the world.

For more information and bookings click here

Take this timely opportunity to give yourself this gift of powerful purification practice to detox and uplift the mind in preparation for the new year ahead when the power of your practice will set you confidently in a positive direction and be a gift for others as well.

Participants are guided through the Vajrasattva Purification Practice, which involves meditation sessions throughout the day, along with visualisation and mantra recitation. This disciplined method encourages practitioners to skilfully regret our wrongdoings, purify them, and resolve to transform our efforts into positive actions to benefit all beings, and the world.

For more information and bookings click here

Every Saturday morning

Qi in the Traditional Chinese Medicine stands for the life energy that is ever present in the environment and within our bodies. Chinese Thai Chi and Qi Gong health exercises work on the body to nurture enhance and nourish that Qi energy.

Indian Yoga tradition also works on the body to nourish the Prana, which is what they call life energy; it aims to work through the Nadis, energy channels, and Chakras.

Raul will work with both disciplines and integrate them, to give the students a possibility to improve their overall health and a wider understanding of their own practice; as well as train focusing their awareness within their own innermost being.

During the class we will be focusing on observing and nurturing the Qi/Prana energy in the body, as well as Chakras, Nadis and meridians.

Raul will be incorporating Hatha Yoga asanas, Pranayama and meditation with Chinese Qi energy and flow meditation exercises.

Find out more here

Take this timely opportunity to give yourself this gift of powerful purification practice to detox and uplift the mind in preparation for the new year ahead when the power of your practice will set you confidently in a positive direction and be a gift for others as well.

Participants are guided through the Vajrasattva Purification Practice, which involves meditation sessions throughout the day, along with visualisation and mantra recitation. This disciplined method encourages practitioners to skilfully regret our wrongdoings, purify them, and resolve to transform our efforts into positive actions to benefit all beings, and the world.

For more information and bookings click here

Cost: Teachings during the pilgrimage are free. Participants pay for their own costs associated with the trip (such as flights, accomodation, food and any entry fees).

Join us on a Buddhist Pilgrimage in Thailand, led by Venerable Chao Khun Keng, to deepen your Buddhist practice as we visit Buddhist monasteries and spiritual places. Participants can attend all or part of the Pilgrimage with notice beforehand. We will organise the program and accommodation during the tour, and participants will pay their share in the accommodation and any other associated fees. Participants are to arrange their own flights. Spots are limited so please register so you don’t miss out on this special opportunity! To register or for more information please email: contact@mettacentre.com.

About our Guide: Venerable Chao Khun Keng Vinayadhamma Vidhes aka Ajahn Keng is a Singaporean monk from the Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Mun Buridatto. He was ordained in 1987 under the recommendation of Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Ajahn Geoffrey). Luang Phor Jiak Cundo, the later generation of Luang Pu Mun’s disciples, was also one of is teachers. Ajahn Keng was conferred the title of “Chao Khun” in 2013 by the King of Thailand. Currently, Chao Khun Keng is the Abbott of Santi Forest Monastery (JB) and the President of Palelai Buddhist (Singapore) and Wat Pa Doi Charen Tham at Omkoi. Listen to Chao Khun Keng’s talk at the Metta Centre here: https://youtu.be/gkaoMEOziWs

When: Tuesdays from 17th October | 6.30-7.30pm

Cost: Free

Location: In person at Western Sydney University (Bankstown City Campus), Room 1.4.34 on level 4

Join our rejuvenating yoga classes to help improve your inner balance, calm and focus. Perfect for anyone seeking to build strength, flexibility and stability, these classes will explore the mind-body connection through deliberate movements and breathwork. Don’t miss this chance to experience the transformative power of yoga. Bring your own yoga mat and towel.

About the Instructor: Yvonne Dang is an accredited yoga teacher who wants to share yoga’s many benefits with the community and welcomes all levels to join her in exploring and developing their practice. Her classes are designed to be accessible and engaging – she can’t wait to meet you on the mat!

Know More

Every Saturday morning

Qi in the Traditional Chinese Medicine stands for the life energy that is ever present in the environment and within our bodies. Chinese Thai Chi and Qi Gong health exercises work on the body to nurture enhance and nourish that Qi energy.

Indian Yoga tradition also works on the body to nourish the Prana, which is what they call life energy; it aims to work through the Nadis, energy channels, and Chakras.

Raul will work with both disciplines and integrate them, to give the students a possibility to improve their overall health and a wider understanding of their own practice; as well as train focusing their awareness within their own innermost being.

During the class we will be focusing on observing and nurturing the Qi/Prana energy in the body, as well as Chakras, Nadis and meridians.

Raul will be incorporating Hatha Yoga asanas, Pranayama and meditation with Chinese Qi energy and flow meditation exercises.

Find out more here

First Saturday of each month

Qigong works to restore and maintain Qi / Chi energy through gentle and repetitive movements that benefit both young and old. It improves cardiovascular, respiratory, circulatory, lymphatic, and digestive functions. The ultimate aim of ancient Qigong practice is to refine and clear one’s body, emotions, and mental and psychic energy. This ability to integrate and heal is part of the journey to becoming a mature, balanced adult.

Find out more

When: Tuesdays from 17th October | 6.30-7.30pm

Cost: Free

Location: In person at Western Sydney University (Bankstown City Campus), Room 1.4.34 on level 4

Join our rejuvenating yoga classes to help improve your inner balance, calm and focus. Perfect for anyone seeking to build strength, flexibility and stability, these classes will explore the mind-body connection through deliberate movements and breathwork. Don’t miss this chance to experience the transformative power of yoga. Bring your own yoga mat and towel.

About the Instructor: Yvonne Dang is an accredited yoga teacher who wants to share yoga’s many benefits with the community and welcomes all levels to join her in exploring and developing their practice. Her classes are designed to be accessible and engaging – she can’t wait to meet you on the mat!

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Amitabha Buddhist chanting and Dharma lectures provided by Venerable Xue Wu. Come on any day or all days listed.

Dharma lectures will be uploaded to our YouTube channel after the event.

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