Lama Choedak Rinpoche Weekend Teachings May 2025

Lama Choedak Rinpoche, Milton NSW
Friday 16th - Sunday 18th May 2025

PUBLIC TALK 7–9pm. Friday 16th May 2025

HEALING RELATIONSHIPS

Life is all about relationships, and our ability to be happy is largely determined by the quality of our relationships. During this talk, Rinpoche will explore the various difficulties we face in keeping our relationships vibrant and healthy. From a Buddhist perspective, every healing journey must begin by looking within, to examine the relationship we have with our own inner demons and unresolved anger. The evening will conclude with chai and cake, and a christening of our new fire pit.

$20 / $15 members & concession. All proceeds will go to the Sakya Temple of Peace project in Canberra.

WEEKEND TEACHINGS

9.00am - 5.00pm. Saturday 16th May 2025

8 VERSES FOR TRAINING THE MIND

This highly revered Mahayana text, composed by 11th-century Buddhist master Langri Tangpa, offers essential instructions for cultivating the awakening mind of love, compassion, and wisdom. Rinpoche will highlight the profound and transformative implications of renouncing selfishness and adopting altruism as a fundamental attitude to bring into daily life. The verses encourage us to stay open, gentle, and wise with everything and everyone we encounter.

$75 / $65 members & concession. Lunch & Morning Tea provided 

9.30am - 5.00pm. Sunday 18th May 2025

EMPOWERMENT AND TEACHING : ORANGE MANJUSHRI

From a Buddhist perspective, suffering arises from a fundamental ignorance, a misunderstanding of reality shaped by our projections and opinions. This confusion keeps us trapped in cycles of dissatisfaction and conflict. The Buddha taught that cultivating wisdom - clear, direct insight into the true nature of things - is the path to liberation or enlightenment. Vajrayana Buddhism offers powerful methods to accelerate this process. Among them is the practice of Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom. In this full-day teaching, Rinpoche will offer the empowerment and instructions needed to engage in this profound path.

$75 / $65 members & concession. Lunch & Morning Tea provided 

Manjushri Buddhist Centre is dedicated to providing precious Dharma teachings to all, if you are facing financial hardship please let us know via this email link and we will be very happy to support you in receiving these teachings: mbcmilton@gmail.com

Born in Tibet in 1954, Lama Choedak Rinpoche and his family resettled in Nepal after the Chinese occupation. He received formal education as well as 12 years monastic training followed by a traditional 3 year solitary meditation retreat. He has served as translator to many of the greatest Buddhist masters of our time. Rinpoche has now been teaching in the west for over 30 years, he is a gifted communicator and able to share the most profound aspects of Buddhist wisdom in a way that is relevant and applicable to our everyday life situations.