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Hobart Buddhist Meditation Centre

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Address: 2nd floor, 71 Liverpool St 7000 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.hobartbuddhistmeditationcentre.com

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25.01.2022 CHAGDUD TULKU RINPOCHE JUST PRACTICE The life of great practitioners repeatedly demonstrates that to maintain Dharma practice one does not have to renounce the... world. Nor is it necessary to renounce the Dharma to remain involved in the activities of the world. It is possible to integrate both things into one life. Gradually, new priorities and a necessary balance appear. In my life I have witnessed four people reach the rainbow body at the time of death; they did not live in monasteries, but lived with their families. When I was twenty-two, I saw a man reach for the rainbow body, and most people didn't even know he was doing spiritual practice. There is no need for any external display to succeed in the spiritual path. It is not the body that we alter to become enlightened, it is the mind. You can embrace a hermit's lifestyle, abandon your preoccupation with food, clothing, wealth, friends, family, home, and move to a mountain by devoting yourself entirely to meditation. This is a perfectly valid mode. In Vajrayana, however, there is another way. Your outer life continues in the usual way. You do not leave your home, renounce anything, but never depart from virtue, never depart from Dharma, the intention to bring benefits, or wisdom. See more

25.01.2022 Like the passing of a bird in the sky. All composite phenomena in the world are just like that. ~ Machig Labdrön, from Machigs Last Instructions #machig #nature #oneMother

24.01.2022 You are in our hearts and prayers. <3

24.01.2022 Treasure Revealers (gter ston) are men and women who have produced scripture or objects known as treasure (gter ma) through visionary experience, memory, or phy...sical extraction. Generally these treasures are said to have been concealed by an earlier historical figure, with the intention that they would be recovered for use by future generations. Although most common in the Nyingma and Bon traditions, there have been treasure revealers in all traditions of Tibetan religion. You can browse biographies of Treasure Revealers from the here: https://treasuryoflives.org/institution/Treasure-Revealers See more

23.01.2022 Zasep Tulku Rinpoche is teaching Logong, [Mind Training], starting this Monday S.ept 14 7am AEST. The teaching is also recorded and available on Youtube. Highly recommended! Logong is a profound teaching using the challenges and obstacles of life to develop spiritually.

23.01.2022 You can see interdependence at work by looking at how your own life is sustained. You are able to exist only because of others. The clothes you wear and the foo...d you eat all come from somewhere else. We all rely on outside conditions, including the air we breathe. Our continued presence here in the world is an opportunity made possible entirely by others. 17th Karmapa from the book "The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out"

23.01.2022 Progress report from our friends in Canada

22.01.2022 Stephen Batchelor is a Buddhist teacher known for his secular or agnostic approach to Dharma in the West. https://tricycle.org/magazine/stephen-batchelor-climate/

22.01.2022 Guy Turnbull is leading our Zoom sessions during September. Subject: The Uttaratantra Shastra This text is highly regarded in the Mahayana tradition. In it we explore the idea that all beings have Tathagatagarbha...the seed or potential of full awakening. This very short course is merely a glimpse into the profound meaning of this text. More details in the link.

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20.01.2022 "Inherently we are all buddhas. We are completely perfect. We just have to learn how to recognize our true, absolutely immaculate, wise, and completely compass...ionate nature. We are not looking to take something from outside ourselves. Renunciation really is just a matter of letting go. We are opening up to what we already have~we are opening up to the fullness within us. We are trying simply to awaken our original nature." (excerpt from Into the Heart of Life by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo)

20.01.2022 Mingyur Rinpoche "Buddhanature can be summed up in a single word: courage - specifically the courage to be just as we are, right here, right now, with... all our doubts and uncertainties." Photo of Mingyur Rinpoche with his mother, Amala.

20.01.2022 If we have the patience to wait until the mud (our mind) settles and the water is clear, if we remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself, the right words will arise, without our thinking about them. (Charlotte Joko Beck)

18.01.2022 During the first 3 weeks of November our regular Tuesday evening sessions will be held at 6.30 pm instead of our usual 7.30 pm. We have a special guest leader! Please see the link for full details.

17.01.2022 Holiness the Sakya Trichen Rinpoche (1)

16.01.2022 Compassion Photo courtesy of Olivier Adam

15.01.2022 "What if our religion was each other. If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth. If forests were our church. If holy ...water--the rivers, lakes, and ocean. What if meditation was our relationships. If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self-knowledge. If love was the center of our being." ~ Ganga White photographer unknown. See more

13.01.2022 Do not worry about enlightenment; the Buddha is within your mind already, ready to be seen. But because we cannot turn inward and are constantly distracted, we ...fail to recognize the Buddha. When past thoughts have ceased and future thoughts not yet arisen, in this space between fixations, you can glimpse the nature of mind abiding like space; this is the Buddha. If you remain within this nature continuously, you are enlightened. Whenever you stop to grasp, there is no cause of samsara. Whenever you begin to grasp, you have again created the cause of samsara. The Buddha is actually not somewhere far away. The Buddha is always ready to be seen. If you do not give up the fixation to a self, but try to escape from samsara by secluding your body, you will still not be liberated. If you give up the fixation to a self, while continuing to live in the world, you will be liberated. Garchen Rinpoche See more

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11.01.2022 Shodo Harda Roshi: "....The Buddha Dharma is the letting go of those past experiences and knowledge. That mind with no stain of mental understanding and dualism..., that which sees the thing simply, just as it is: that mind is precious. When we let go of that stain of mental understanding, when we let go of those extraneous thoughts and see the thing exactly as is, then everything we see is true and new and beautiful. ... When someone has deeply understood the Buddha Dharma, whatever they encounter is the Buddha, just as it is. No matter what is encountered, there is nothing that is not the Truth...." (from Staff for the Mind Volume 1) See more

11.01.2022 Photo: Andy Lee #Mindfulness #Awakening

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11.01.2022 Calm Abiding Meditation: Eight Week On-Line Course Thursdays: 17 September to 5 November 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Meditation has a proven record in its ability to improve health, awaken happiness and give a clear perspective on life. It enables you to identify the real causes of unhappiness and recover from stress, anxiety and tension. It is a very important skill to develop in these difficult times....Continue reading

10.01.2022 This is a long and thoughtful piece on Buddhists coming to terms with extinction by prominent radical Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor.

09.01.2022 During this difficult time in the world, when travel has become impossible for many people, some of you might be missing your Dharma teachers, brothers and sist...ers. But please remember that the energy of all of the buddhas has no centre and no boundary. Wherever you are, they are with you. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche

08.01.2022 An incredible documentary on Buddhism in Nepal in 1973 and the westerners discovering it.

07.01.2022 Right intention ~ Kyabje Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche No matter which dharma practice you engage in, from ngöndro to offering a single candle, always do i...t with the intention that your practice will benefit all sentient beings. In this context, benefit does not only mean giving practical help, such as offering food or medicine, or feeding peoples emotions, egos and delusions. Here, benefit includes aspiring to be instrumental in the enlightenment of all sentient beings; without such an aspiration, it is easy for dharma practice to become self-serving. from the book "Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices"

06.01.2022 Jestunma Tenzin Palmo explains karma very succinctly:

06.01.2022 #Awakening #Wisdom

05.01.2022 "We have to forgive ourselves. We have all made mistakes and acted stupidly. So what? We're human beings. If we were perfect then we wouldn't need a path, since we would already have arrived! It is because we have problems, because we have faults, because we've made stupid mistakes that we need a path. So therefore as we accept ourselves, so we can reach out and forgive others. We can start by befriending ourselves, being a little more tolerant of ourselves and that will help us be friendlier and more tolerant of others." ~Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

05.01.2022 To understand how delusion arises, practice watching your mind. Begin by simply letting it relax. Without thinking of the past or the future, without feeling ho...pe or fear about this thing or that, let it rest comfortably, open and natural. In this space of the mind, there is no problem, no suffering. Then something catches your attention - an image, a sound, a smell. Your mind splits into inner and outer, self and other, subject and object. In simply perceiving the object, there is still no problem. But when you zero in on it, you notice that it's big or small, white or black, square or circular; and then you make a judgment - for example, whether it's pretty or ugly. Having made that judgment, you react to it: you decide you like it or don't like it. That's when the problem starts, because "I like it" leads to "I want it." We want to possess what we perceive to be desirable. Similarly, "I don't like it" leads to "I don't want it." If we like something, want it, and can't have it, we suffer. If we don't want it, but can't keep it away, again we suffer. Our suffering seems to occur because of the object of our desire or aversion, but that's not really so - it happens because the mind splits into object-subject duality and becomes involved in wanting or not wanting something. ~ Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

05.01.2022 The most straightforward advice on how to discover your true nature is this, says Pema Chödrön: practice not causing harm to anyoneneither yourself nor othersand every day, do what you can to help.

05.01.2022 Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama When you get up in the morning, set aside half an hour or so. Usually we are preoccupied with sensory perceptions, but... for half an hour or an hour, withdraw the mind from distraction by external objects. Place your attention on the mind itself. Develop an experience of its clarity and awareness. Focus on that with a calmly abiding mind. Then, apply that to analysis. This is how to examine your mind. See more

04.01.2022 Zasep Tulku Rinpoche returns to teaching next Sunday Sept 13 2:00pm (Pacific Time) on YouTube Live. Rinpoche will begin teaching Lojong providing commentary on ...the text The Wheel of Sharp Weapons. Access the text in English and Tibetan at the Gaden for the West link below: https://gadenforthewest.org/prayers.html To view past teachings: https://www.youtube.com/c/GadenforthewestOrg To offer Dana to Rinpoche: http://gadenforthewest.org/paypal.html See more

02.01.2022 Mt Kailash, Tibet Thanks Lobsang Choedroen Ellen Solari

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