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The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well. Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

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Starting Your Journey

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  • Inspiring a Revolution in Your Heart & Mind

    Reflect on the Buddhist teachings, see what makes sense to you, and apply these teachings in your daily life.
    Newcastle, Sydney & Online

  • Meditation and Wisdom to Transform Everyday Life

    Rigpa Sydney 158 Australia St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia +1 more
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    An introduction to meditation and practical advice from some of the foremost Tibetan Buddhist teachers of our age.
    Adelaide, Sydney & Online

The Next Step: Compassion

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  • The Wisdom of Compassion

    Rigpa Adelaide 310 South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Key Buddhist teachings on the powerful logic of compassion and practical methods for developing a more kind relationship with ourselves, those around us and ultimately all beings.
    Adelaide

  • Cultivating Compassion

    Cultivating Compassion
    Online via Zoom , Australia
    Virtual Event

    The Tibetan Buddhist guidelines for living a compassionate life, summarized in the Seven Points of Mind Training, open the way for each of us to nurture our own good heart and offer a vital practical antidote to despair and despondency.
    Online
    Third Saturday of each month

The Next Step: The View

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  • This Life: The Buddha’s guide to inner transformation

    Key insights from the Buddha’s life and teachings to show how, through meditation and shifting our focus inwards, we can find true, unending contentment.
    Melbourne, Sydney & Online

Continuing Your Path

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  • Enlightened Courage

    Presenting the Seven Points of Mind Training to lay out a path of formal meditation practice to help us express our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do.
    Online

A Deeper Commitment

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  • The All Encompassing Path

    Exploring compassion practices set within the context of the Vajrayana preliminaries, the ngöndro, in a fresh and meaningful way.
    Online

  • The Home Retreat

    A weekly online study program
    This seven-year program is a comprehensive, authentic program of study and practice embedded in the Longchen Nyingtik lineage and Sogyal Rinpoche’s Dzogchen teachings.

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Our Purpose

Non-profit and volunteer-run, our purpose is to share the Buddha’s teachings that show how to transform our stressed, tired and confused minds into the effortless self-perfected state of our true nature. The path we offer embodies the authentic traditions of Tibet, in a way that is directly relevant to people in the modern world. 

A Complete Path

The first words the Buddha said: Profound Peace, Natural Simplicity Uncompounded Luminosity.

Rigpa offers courses and events to help us face the challenges and big questions in life. We provide an in-depth, complete curriculum of study, reflection, practice and retreat. Our courses follow the graduated stages of the Buddhist path of awakening to take you on a journey from the simplest forms of meditation, through the vivid richness of the Tibetan Vajrayana practices to Dzogchen, the heart-essence of all spiritual paths and the summit of an individual’s spiritual evolution.

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Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is

a manual for life and death and a source of inspiration from the heart of the Tibetan tradition. It provides a lucid and inspiring introduction to the practice of meditation, to the awakened nature of mind, to karma and rebirth, to compassionate love and care for the dying, and to the trials and rewards of the spiritual path

 

Having sold more than 3 million copies and been translated into 34 languages, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying offers tried and tested practices to help us all overcome anxiety, depression and burnout in these busy modern times. 

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Rigpa – a safe place to study and practice dharma

In 2017 complaints were made by a number of Rigpa students against our founder, Sogyal Rinpoche. An independent report commissioned by Rigpa International revealed evidence of serious physical and sexual abuse. In response, Rigpa has recognised that some students were harmed, and that Rigpa, as an organisation, bears responsibility for failing to adequately support those students who were harmed.

 

Rigpa has apologised for its failures and has strengthened its governance, transparency, decision-making and financial practices. Further, Rigpa has used the rigorous investigation of its practices to deepen our understanding of the needs of western students who are studying and practising Buddhism.

 

Rigpa now:

  • Pledges to provide a safe environment for all students

  • Takes responsibility for healing past hurts

  • Maintains an open culture of listening and good communication

  • Continues to educate teachers and role holders to better protect and support students in their study and practice.

All of Rigpa Australia’s teachers and role holders are signatories to a code of conduct. Grievance processes are in place to address any future complaints. There are student advocates in each centre and students are encouraged to raise any concerns as they arise.

Acknowledgement of Country

Rigpa Australia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to the custodians and elders of this nation, and acknowledge their vast and wise cultural, spiritual and educational practices.