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Held the first Saturday of every month, this boutique market is focused on your holistic health, environmental sustainability & HAPPINESS!

Each stall has been specially selected to offer you high quality, environmentally-sound and uplifting products. Our range includes organic foodstuffs, giftware, homeware, skincare, children’s products and natural health remedies.

Grab a snack or lunch at our on-site vegetarian Arts Cafe or vegan food stall.

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Find out more and register here

Every Tuesday | 6.30-7.30pm

Location: Location: WSU Bankstown City Campus, Room 1.4.34 on level 4 (In person only)

Cost: Free

Join our rejuvenating mindful yoga classes to help improve your inner balance, calm and focus. Perfect for anyone seeking a more mindful practice, this class explores 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, or borrow one of ours!

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!

This 6-week course introduces the practice of Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation, also known as Vipassana Meditation, which is based on the teachings of the Buddha contained within the Discourse on the Establishment of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). The course integrates both theoretical and experiential aspects of the practice (sitting meditation and walking meditation).

The course is led by Buddhist teacher Jim Teoh, who draws from the Satipatthana Sutta and his almost 40 years of personal meditation experience.

It is suitable for beginners and practitioners of all levels.

This 6-week course introduces the practice of Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation, also known as Vipassana Meditation, which is based on the teachings of the Buddha contained within the Discourse on the Establishment of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). The course integrates both theoretical and experiential aspects of the practice (sitting meditation and walking meditation)

The course is led by Buddhist teacher Jim Teoh, who draws from the Satipatthana Sutta and his almost 40 years of personal meditation experience.

It is suitable for beginners and practitioners of all levels.

Register here

This silent retreat is an invitation to take the lived body as the path of awakening. This is not the body we objectify, judge or identify with, or have ambivalent feelings about, it is the natural wisdom unfolding when we fully immerse mindfulness in the body. This, the Buddha said, leads to ‘whatever skilful qualities are on the side of clear knowing’.

Sometimes meditators skip over the importance of awareness in the body, perhaps through misunderstanding, anxiety or aversion. In this retreat somatic practices will be integrated as part of our meditation. Somatic practices aid nervous system regulation and help unwind deeply held tensions and habituated patterns of reactivity. They help develop the ‘felt sense’, or interoceptive awareness, enabling a more grounded capacity to ease difficult and painful emotions and thoughts and supporting a more open-hearted engagement with life. As the bodymind settles into wholeness and awareness clarifies, the more subtle aspects of embodiment will reveal themselves transforming our usual perceptions of self and world.

The program will consist of lying down, sitting and walking, regular guided meditation, dharma talks, occasional relational meditation and regular somatic practice sessions. These will include working with the breath, unwinding movement and yoga, and TRE (Trauma Release Exercise).

Register here for Embodied Awakening

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Vidarshana Buddhist Vihara has organised a lunch packet sale to raise funds on Saturday 21st September 2024.

The main purpose of the Fundraiser is to cover:

• Weekly rental for the leased property at 81 Baker Street Carlingford
• Electricity and Water bills
• Public liability and volunteer cover insurance premiums
• Resident monk’s health insurance payments
• Other expenses towards the upkeep of the Vihara

We have extend coverage of food pick up centres in following suburbs for your convenience:

• Wollongong
• Campbelltown
• Liverpool
• The Ponds
• North Kellyville
• Dural
• Epping
• Castle Hill
• Vidarshana Monk’s residence, 81 Baker Street Carlingford
• Spice World Carlingford
• Hornsby/Thornleigh
• Newcastle

We offer our heartfelt gratitude for the enormous support we hope to receive from your esteemed organisation to make our fund raiser successful.

Please see the attached flyers for ordering details and pick up centres nearest to your home. We have enabled the facility to place online orders by clicking the link below or by scanning the QR code in the attached flyers. Alternatively, you can call the numbers given on the flyers to place an order as well.

https://form.jotform.com/242162904157858

Further, you have the ability to order 5 curries (a pack of 5 curries ) for $ 60 if you wish to do so . Please refer to the attached flyer for details.

Food collection can be made between 11am – 2pm.

We ask for your continued support to this initiative by placing orders for food packets.

Enquiries or offers of raw material support contact us on;

Phone      0401 633 601

Email        secretary@vidarshana.org.au

Every Tuesday | 6.30-7.30pm

Location: Location: WSU Bankstown City Campus, Room 1.4.34 on level 4 (In person only)

Cost: Free

Join our rejuvenating mindful yoga classes to help improve your inner balance, calm and focus. Perfect for anyone seeking a more mindful practice, this class explores 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, or borrow one of ours!

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!

This 6-week course introduces the practice of Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation, also known as Vipassana Meditation, which is based on the teachings of the Buddha contained within the Discourse on the Establishment of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). The course integrates both theoretical and experiential aspects of the practice (sitting meditation and walking meditation)

The course is led by Buddhist teacher Jim Teoh, who draws from the Satipatthana Sutta and his almost 40 years of personal meditation experience.

It is suitable for beginners and practitioners of all levels.

Register here

This 6-week course introduces the practice of Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation, also known as Vipassana Meditation, which is based on the teachings of the Buddha contained within the Discourse on the Establishment of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). The course integrates both theoretical and experiential aspects of the practice (sitting meditation and walking meditation).

The course is led by Buddhist teacher Jim Teoh, who draws from the Satipatthana Sutta and his almost 40 years of personal meditation experience.

It is suitable for beginners and practitioners of all levels.

Find out more and register here

Vidarshana Buddhist Vihara has organised a lunch packet sale to raise funds on Saturday 21st September 2024.

The main purpose of the Fundraiser is to cover:

• Weekly rental for the leased property at 81 Baker Street Carlingford
• Electricity and Water bills
• Public liability and volunteer cover insurance premiums
• Resident monk’s health insurance payments
• Other expenses towards the upkeep of the Vihara

We have extend coverage of food pick up centres in following suburbs for your convenience:

• Wollongong
• Campbelltown
• Liverpool
• The Ponds
• North Kellyville
• Dural
• Epping
• Castle Hill
• Vidarshana Monk’s residence, 81 Baker Street Carlingford
• Spice World Carlingford
• Hornsby/Thornleigh
• Newcastle

We offer our heartfelt gratitude for the enormous support we hope to receive from your esteemed organisation to make our fund raiser successful.

Please see the attached flyers for ordering details and pick up centres nearest to your home. We have enabled the facility to place online orders by clicking the link below or by scanning the QR code in the attached flyers. Alternatively, you can call the numbers given on the flyers to place an order as well.

https://form.jotform.com/242162904157858

Further, you have the ability to order 5 curries (a pack of 5 curries ) for $ 60 if you wish to do so . Please refer to the attached flyer for details.

Food collection can be made between 11am – 2pm.

We ask for your continued support to this initiative by placing orders for food packets.

Enquiries or offers of raw material support contact us on;

Phone      0401 633 601

Email        secretary@vidarshana.org.au

Learn the correct understanding of Buddhist Precepts and gain the support for lay Buddhists to uphold them daily.

22nd Sep (2pm to 4pm)

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Learn the correct understanding of Buddhist Precepts and gain the support for lay Buddhists to uphold them daily.

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Every Tuesday | 6.30-7.30pm

Location: Location: WSU Bankstown City Campus, Room 1.4.34 on level 4 (In person only)

Cost: Free

Join our rejuvenating mindful yoga classes to help improve your inner balance, calm and focus. Perfect for anyone seeking a more mindful practice, this class explores 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, or borrow one of ours!

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!

This 6-week course introduces the practice of Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation, also known as Vipassana Meditation, which is based on the teachings of the Buddha contained within the Discourse on the Establishment of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). The course integrates both theoretical and experiential aspects of the practice (sitting meditation and walking meditation)

The course is led by Buddhist teacher Jim Teoh, who draws from the Satipatthana Sutta and his almost 40 years of personal meditation experience.

It is suitable for beginners and practitioners of all levels.

Register here

This 6-week course introduces the practice of Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation, also known as Vipassana Meditation, which is based on the teachings of the Buddha contained within the Discourse on the Establishment of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). The course integrates both theoretical and experiential aspects of the practice (sitting meditation and walking meditation).

The course is led by Buddhist teacher Jim Teoh, who draws from the Satipatthana Sutta and his almost 40 years of personal meditation experience.

It is suitable for beginners and practitioners of all levels.

Find out more and register here

The University of New South Wales Buddhist Society (UNIBUDS) warmly invites you to our highly anticipated Bodhi Nite 2024, an evening dedicated to the exploration of loving kindness and compassion. This year’s title, “Rays of Warmth”, promises to take you on a profound journey of self-discovery and inner peace.

Date: Saturday, 28th of September 2024

Time: 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.

Venue: Sir John Clancy Auditorium, UNSW Kensington 2033

As you may know, Bodhi Nite is an annual performance night that celebrates the birthday of UNIBUDS, commemorating its establishment 44 years ago in 1981. It has become a cherished tradition filled with stage plays, soulful singing, and mesmerizing multimedia performances, all aimed at exploring the teachings of the Buddha. This year, in continuation of this beautiful legacy, Bodhi Nite 2024 – “Rays of Warmth” will delve into the teachings of Loving Kindness and Compassion.

Join us as we spread light and love while embracing the warmth within. Through captivating performances, we will delve into the heart of generosity, exploring how acts of kindness can transform lives, foster empathy, and create a harmonious world.

Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to reach out to Qinzi Poh, our dedicated representative, at 0405 837 374 or reply to this email. Your presence at UNIBUDS Bodhi Nite 2024 would be greatly cherished and valued.

May the storm of desire transform into a stream of contentment as we come together to embrace the serenity within.

Ticket sales are live at:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/unibuds/1305917

What are you learning about Buddhism
To practice Buddhism, do you have to be a vegetarian
Does studying Buddhism mean seeing through the world of mortals
Does studying Buddhism mean that you have to escape into Buddhism
Whether you are curious about Buddhism, or are considering taking refuge in the Three Jewels, this course will clear up your doubts and provide practical practice methods, so that you can personally experience the wisdom and joy of learning Buddhism in your daily life. You will understand why it is so happy to learn Buddhism!
 Registration 報名連結
 雪梨分會網站 : www.ddm.org.au
 洽詢電話：0466 597 663
 提供輕食午齋，請自備筷子
 課程免費，歡迎隨喜護持~場地、餐點等 

Every Tuesday | 6.30-7.30pm

Location: Location: WSU Bankstown City Campus, Room 1.4.34 on level 4 (In person only)

Cost: Free

Join our rejuvenating mindful yoga classes to help improve your inner balance, calm and focus. Perfect for anyone seeking a more mindful practice, this class explores 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, or borrow one of ours!

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!

This 6-week course introduces the practice of Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation, also known as Vipassana Meditation, which is based on the teachings of the Buddha contained within the Discourse on the Establishment of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). The course integrates both theoretical and experiential aspects of the practice (sitting meditation and walking meditation).

The course is led by Buddhist teacher Jim Teoh, who draws from the Satipatthana Sutta and his almost 40 years of personal meditation experience.

It is suitable for beginners and practitioners of all levels.

This 6-week course introduces the practice of Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation, also known as Vipassana Meditation, which is based on the teachings of the Buddha contained within the Discourse on the Establishment of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). The course integrates both theoretical and experiential aspects of the practice (sitting meditation and walking meditation)

The course is led by Buddhist teacher Jim Teoh, who draws from the Satipatthana Sutta and his almost 40 years of personal meditation experience.

It is suitable for beginners and practitioners of all levels.

Register here

Whether you are a Buddhist or not, meditation is recognised as a wonderful tool for calming the mind. It is amazing just how much our mind “chatters” with unproductive thoughts! When we meditate, we learn the skills to calm these thoughts, allowing us to cultivate inner peace and happiness!

BEGINNERS CLASS

An introduction to the wonderful world of meditation.  To begin, your teacher will guide you through breathing techniques and correct posture. As your experience develops, your teacher will gently wean their guidance so that you can begin to feel comfortable meditating independently. Each class allows time to share experiences, reflect and ask any questions you may have regarding your journey.

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Whether you are a Buddhist or not, meditation is recognised as a wonderful tool for calming the mind. It is amazing just how much our mind “chatters” with unproductive thoughts! When we meditate, we learn the skills to calm these thoughts, allowing us to cultivate inner peace and happiness!

INTERMEDIATE CLASS

Ideal for those who have already been practising meditation. This class allows for more independent practice and in-depth discussions and guidance from your teacher.

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Held the first Saturday of every month, this boutique market is focused on your holistic health, environmental sustainability & HAPPINESS!

Each stall has been specially selected to offer you high quality, environmentally-sound and uplifting products. Our range includes organic foodstuffs, giftware, homeware, skincare, children’s products and natural health remedies.

Grab a snack or lunch at our on-site vegetarian Arts Cafe or vegan food stall.

Learn More

Meditative concentration, also known as calm-abiding, is a state of mind where all the disturbances due to dysfunctional reactions of body and mind are pacified and we find our attention abiding blissfully on whatever object of meditation we focus on.

Contrary to popular beliefs, great effort and willpower are not necessary to accomplish it. Rather, the skillful and wise application of our mindfulness, coupled with the attitude of kindness and letting go, transforms our usual effortful struggle in meditation to an effortless process of settling deeply into concentration.

In this retreat we will look into creating the different conditions that facilitate the settling down of our body and mind, freeing them from the unnecessary tensions and agitation that disturb our peace and wellbeing.

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Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM) Sydney will be conducting “Beginner English Meditation Workshop” on 2024 October 5 (Sat) and October 12 (Sat) led by 3 Venerable from DDM Taiwan who have extensive experience in conducting meditation classes and retreats.
Workshop Highlight:
This workshop is tailored for beginners in English, using a relaxed and lively approach to teach the fundamental concepts and methods of introductory meditation practice.
Workshop Overview:
This workshop covers guided meditation, relaxation, breath awareness, walking meditation, meditation in motion and yoga exercises.
Through activities like sitting meditation, breathing and eight-form moving meditation, participants will be taught to collect their mind, eliminate delusive thoughts, focus on the present moment, be clearly aware of their thoughts and emotional changes, learn how to apply these skills in daily life and enjoy calmness and ease.
Registration is essential, only limited spots are available & it’s on first come first serve basis~

Full day attendance is required for both sessions (Oct 5 & Oct 12)

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Samādhi is a pāli word that is sometimes translated as concentration, but might be better understood as collecting, unifying, aligning, stabilising, and harmonising both mind and body. The Buddha gave extensive teachings on how to cultivate samādhi and the importance of this practice. Through cultivating samādhi there are beautiful, lovely, and powerful states of mind that foster deep feelings of tranquility, happiness, and wellbeing. These qualities of mind also create optimal conditions for gaining insight and learning about your own mind and experience.

These states are a possibility for all human beings and can be accessed and cultivated through practice. There is a fine art involved in navigating the mind that requires creativity, exploration, play, and responsiveness.

Each day there will be teachings given on the techniques for cultivating samādhi, working with the hindrances, finding a balanced approach to practise, and how to deepen the practice and explore avenues for insight. These instructions will centre around using the breath as a meditation object, whole body awareness, and the practice of mettā.

Date: Saturday 5 to Sunday 13 October 2024, arrive 4pm Saturday, depart 2pm on the closing day. Note that this includes the Labour Day public holiday.

Location: Vejjasala, 219 Forest Road Wingello, NSW 2579

Teacher: Kynan Tan a meditation teacher who takes a collaborative approach to helping students achieve their meditation goals. He draws upon a number of different modern and traditional techniques of contemplative and introspective practice. Kynan studies meditation with Dr. Tucker Peck, leads retreats, and teaches one-on-one instruction and online meditation courses.

Cost: $840 – $1440 depending on the type of accommodation. This price includes three lovingly prepared meals each day. Teaching is offered freely.

For more information or to book please click here