THURS 13 MAY  - TUES 18 MAY  

9 AM - 5 PM 

The course is for buddhist practitioners who wish to apply buddhist mind training in healing of oneself and others. Participants will receive Vajrasattva and Medicine Buddha empowerments, and learn to cultivate great compassion and the mind of enlightenment as inner qualities.

Through this course one learns to let go of the self-grasping mind of delusion, attachment, and anger. As a result, one develops realisation of the nature of mind, and learn to condition one’s body-speech-mind to be just like that of healer Medicine Buddha, in order to benefit all sentient beings. 

This course is taught in two parts

PART ONE

1. Vajrasattva empowerment and daily practice; applying the four powers to purify negative karma.
2. Cultivating great compassion and Bodhichita as motivation for the healing of self and others.
3. Introduction to the Four Noble Truths: knowing the true suffering and its cause.
4. Introduction to Lam Rim Chen Mo: knowing the path of practice towards true happiness.
5. Introduction to calm abiding meditation: developing mental concentration.
6. Introduction to special insight meditation: precious human life; impermanence; karmic effects of non-virtuous actions; faults of samsara; and taking refuge in three jewels.
7. Medicine Buddha empowerment and Medicine Buddha practice, chanting and mantras.
8. Engaging mindfulness and guarding alertness to overcome self-grasping mind, desire and anger.
9. Applying sound instruments, guided meditation, and chanting in healing sessions.
10. How to give advice to people suffering mental stress, fears and depression.

PART TWO

1. Further work on special insight meditation: precious human life; impermanence; karmic effects of non-virtuous actions; faults of samsara; taking refuge in three jewels, great compassion and bodhichitta, and emptiness.
2. How to give advice to people suffering mental stress, fears and depression.
3. Engaging mindfulness and guarding alertness to overcome self-grasping mind, desire and anger.
4. Introduction to meditation on self-generation of deities and introduction to training of completion stage with chakras and channels.

To secure your place please register to attend and pay the $500 deposit. For Further information please contact the centre directly.

Lunch is provided everyday, We invite you to bring a plate of food to share for morning / afternoon tea. Kitchen facilities are availalble on site.

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Main Reference Books

Lama Tsong Khapa:

1. The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lam Rim Chen Mo);
2. Three principal aspects of the path;
3. The harmony of emptiness and dependent-arising;

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama:

1. The four noble truths;
2. Stages of Meditation: training the mind for wisdom;
3. Activating Bodhichita and a meditation on compassion.

Shantideva:

1. A guide to the Bodhisattva’s way of life