events

Jealousy and envy of others can lead us to compete for more and more but are we making ourselves happier or just joining a treadmill? Ven Tony will talk about ways we can think about our consuming to help us gain contentment rather than more stuff.

Ven Tony is an Australian monk of more than 20 years. He regularly leads the highly regarded Introductory course at Tushita in India. He is well placed to talk to us about what makes our life most meaningful, having lived in the world and as a renounced practitioner.

Sat Jan 12th, 10-4pm

Facility Fee: $65/55

We will have a shared vegetarian lunch. Please bring a plate to share.

Curious about Buddhism? Bring your questions to our Buddhism summer school, where Ven Tony will give an introduction to the meaning, philosophy and practice of Buddhism. Anyone can come along, and there is no expectation that those attending be considering a Buddhist path.

Subjects to be covered would be the life of the Buddha, Buddhist understanding of the mind and how developing positive mental qualities is  crucial to happiness. The Four Noble Truths. Rebirth and Karma. Working on lessening unhealthy mental states such as anger and clinging attachment. Developing love and compassion and forgiveness and the cultivation of wisdom.

When : Jan 8th, 9th and 10th 10am-12pm

Jan 15th, 16th, 17th, 10am-12pm

Cost: Sessions $20, whole course $100.

Ven Tony leads a very successful Introduction to Buddhism in India each year. He has a very approachable style coupled with many years of experience fielding the hard questions.

Geshe Sonam begins a series of teachings on Atisha’s Lamp for the path to enlightenment. This text sets out the entire Buddhist path within the framework of three levels of practitioners depending on their motivation. It became the source of the Lam Rim tradition. This is a great opportunity to join us if you wish for a thorough introduction to Buddhist thought.

Mon Sept 24th 7pm

Mon Oct 15th 7pm

Mon Nov 19th 7pm

Mon Dec 10th 7pm.

Each session fee $20.

Cultivating Emotional Balance 2018

Take control of your wellbeing and learn to understand your emotions

Our emotions create richness in our life – they help us navigate our lives, discern what we need, and relate to others. Yet, overwhelming emotions can leave us feeling triggered, stressed, drained, disempowered from our own mental processes, and can result in fractured relationships with others. The information and training from this course will transform your emotional inner world, so you become a skilled ‘emotional athlete’ that is calm, present and positively engaged with others.

What is CEB?

Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) is an evidence based training aimed at helping participants develop emotional regulation by:

• Understanding how emotions function and develop
• Influencing the progression of an emotion, in order to shape the form it takes
• Learning and training in mindfulness and attentional skills
• Identifying purpose, and meaningful goals in our life
• Reducing destructive emotions and cultivating constructive emotions
• Developing and practicing compassionate and balanced connection with others

CEB draws on the wisdom of contemplative meditation practices and emotional research to develop emotion skills to help people to better understand their emotional life, and thereby increase constructive and decrease destructive emotional engagements.

Course Structure and Dates

This course is offered as 6 Sunday sessions, once a month between 10.30-4pm
To complete the full course (42 hours), you must do a minimum 2 hours homework per session (12 hours total) consisting of meditations, readings and reflections. It is possible to attend individual sessions, however, you will be required to attend or listen to part of a recording of the first session as a prerequisite for joining subsequent sessions.

Cost:
All 6 Sessions: $300
Each Session: $55

About Jude Milan
Jude has a background is science, primarily in Human Movement Studies and Environment. Combining her interest in biology with her passion for yoga she trained as a yoga teacher in 2005 and has been teaching since that time.

Jude has travelled over much of Asia and has taught yoga and meditation to students in Nepal, India, Indonesia and Australia. She has been studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism since her early adulthood and has been deeply moved and influenced by the yogic philosophy in this tradition.

Jude has witnessed the physical and mental/ emotional benefits of meditation and yoga has brought to both herself and others over the years. Motivated by the benefits she has experience in these contemplative traditions combined with her deep respect for the method of scientific enquiry she trained as a Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) teacher in 2017 and aspires to share the benefits of this method of training with others.

About CEB:
The Cultivating Emotional Balance Training emerged from the Destructive Emotions dialogue between behavioural scientists and the Dalai Lama, Buddhist monks, and scholars at the Mind and Life Institute in Dharamsala, India, in March of 2000. At the culmination of this meeting the Dalai Lama requested that the important ideas raised in these sessions, specifically how to manage the everyday obstacles of our destructive emotions, be turned into an accessible secular training.

Jude is also teaching this course at Hayagriva centre in Perth. You could catch up a session if you miss one. Please check dates at www.hayagriva.org.au. 

You can also obtain an audio recording of previous sessions if you missed one and wish to catch up. Please email HMT for details.