Love Without Pain (Toowoomba Meditation Workshop) - 30 January 2027

Have you ever felt that love hurts?

Many of us long for love, closeness and connection, yet also feel afraid of the pain that can seem to come with relationships. We may worry about being disappointed, rejected, misunderstood or let down. Because of this, our relationships can sometimes become mixed with insecurity, expectation, neediness or fear.

Buddha’s teachings offer a wise and deeply practical way to understand what is really happening in our mind. They show us that love itself is not the cause of pain. Love is a peaceful, warm and open-hearted mind that wishes others to be happy. The pain we often associate with love actually comes from attachment — a mind that grasps at others as a source of our own happiness and becomes unhappy when things do not go the way we want.

In this meditation workshop Buddhist Nun, Gen Kelsang Ani, will explain how to distinguish clearly between love and attachment in our own experience. Through practical Buddhist wisdom and guided meditations, we can begin to enjoy more genuine love, with less fear, pain and emotional dependence.