Tharlam Ling is pleased to announce May Teachings with Tibetan Lama Choedak will go ahead via Zoom (similar to Skype)

Current program of Teachings and costs follow:

When
Friday night May 1st
Talk 6-7pm ‘How to Develop Emotional Literacy’ $10 General

.Pensioners/ unemployed free

Saturday May 2nd 9am-5pm
‘Health and Healing Through Seven Medicine Buddhas’

$45 General

$30.  (CONCESSION, UNEMPLOYED)

$25 (Tharlam Ling MEMBER)

Sunday May 3rd
9am-5pm ‘Four Seals of Buddhist Wisdom’

$45 General

$30 Concession unemployed

$25 (Tharlam Ling Member)
NB. Payment for the Sat and/or Sun entitles you to the Friday night talk, Free
You may also choose to join Tharlam Ling with the reduced membership of $25 (current through until March 31st 2021) to access Membership prices on this and upcoming events.

Please book and pay by 3pm Thursday 30th April  to enable:
a) The PDF of the booklet for the Saturday Teachings to be sent to you.
b) Direct Debit : Tharlam Ling Buddhist Centre Inc.
BSB: 633 000
A/c: 167 780 642
Reference: your name (NB. Pls email/notify as soon as you have paid.

Lama has stipulated that participants must have audio and video to participate. Inexpensive USB camera can be purchased online. Information on Zoom follows.To Register
Contact Phil: pheang@bigpond.net.au
Make a payment to (Bendigo Bank):
Tharlam Ling Buddhist Centre
BSB 633 000
ACC 167 780 642

PROGRAM :

NB AUSTRALIAN EASTERN STANDARD TIME

FRIDAY NIGHT TALK 1 ST MAY

6PM -7 PM

SATURDAY 2ND MAY/ SUNDAY 3RD MAY

START    9 AM

BREAK  10:30AM

RESUME 11:am

Lunch    12:30 pm

RESUME  1:30pm

BREAK     3PM

FINISH     5PM

More Info
Health and Healing Through Seven Medicine Buddhas
Ill health generated by one’s unwholesome attitude cannot be cured by conventional medicine alone. One has to understand how specific mind states can contribute to ill health, and to learn to remedy them. By becoming conscious of the effects of negative attitudes, conduct and speech on one’s health informs, reforms and empowers the person to restrain them.
The empowerment of Healing Medicine Buddha, transmission of the healing mantra and meditation passed down through an unbroken lineage from a qualified Lama is of paramount importance.
This will include a training session on how to do the Healing Buddha meditation. You will also learn how to use it to assist friends and relatives who may be ill or dying. This healing meditation technique will compliment any form of medical treatment. This practice can reduce the side effects and increase the effectiveness of any medication.
It is especially recommended for health professionals, people with medical conditions and those who are interested in learning self-healing.
Four Seals of Buddhist Wisdom
Buddhism teaches the reality of all things ‘as they appear’ and ‘as they are’ on the basis of four principals known as ‘Four Seals’ which if accepted makes oneself as a signatory to live a compassionate, selfless and forgiving way of life.
Many people in the West have embraced Buddhism as a non-violent and peaceful approach to life without needing to see it as a religion. One is encouraged to investigate and reject it if it does not suit one’s life.
Most people have difficulty in dealing with ‘the way life presents itself’ without accepting it with understanding, but Rinpoche says the difficulties in life are the catalyst and opportunities to put an unbreakable seal of right understanding and growth.
To register or enquire, contact Phil >> pheang@bigpond.net.au
See you on the weekend of 1-3 May 2020!

Phil Heang
Tharlam Ling Buddhist Centre Inc

Tharlam Ling Buddhist Centre is happy to announce:

Buddhist Calm Abiding Meditation and Mindfulness via Zoom

ZOOM is a program something like Skype, u have video and audio and are able to speak with the presenter.

7  pm – 8:15 pm Tuesday 7/04/20 and each Tuesday for the following 6 weeks.

Free if you are a student, unemployed or pensioner.

If you are working a donation would be appreciated.

Please register by sending an email to: .

pheang@bigpond.net.au

and  I’ll send the meeting link.

Calm Abiding Meditation and Mindfulness can help to deal with  stresses of every day life, certainly needed in these times!

The course is based on Buddhist principles of meditation and mindfulness, but is open to people of all faiths or no faith.

The course is suitable for beginner meditators or those  more experienced .

Sitting posture, various breathing techniques and mind control will be covered.

I have been facilitating Meditation classes at JCU Chaplaincy since 2006.

This meditation course is designed by Tibetan born, Lama Choedak Rinpoche, who has been teaching in the West for over 30 years.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Phil Heang

JCU Buddhist Chaplain

Teachings with Tibetan Lama Choedak Rinpoche.

Vajrasattva Empowerment with Creative Cleansing Meditation

With In-Depth Teachings on Four Noble Truths

9.00am – 5.00pm Saturday and Sunday

Lama Choedak has been teaching in Australia for 31 years.

He speaks fluent English (and some Aussie slang!)

Lama interprets for Tibetan Buddhist Teachers, at times doing simultaneous translation.

His teaching is delivered with great humour and insight.

Vajrasattva Practice

Buddha’s entire teaching is panacea to all problems in life. It is based on Four Noble Truths. Knowing this is highest cognitive therapy one can have and gain emotional literacy. Only thing that differs between Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana is methodology in self discipline, meditation and wisdom. Karma and afflictive emotions cause suffering in form of ill health, negative energy and addictive behavioural pattern. Vajrasattva is the primordial Buddha of purity and it has a profound sevenfold creative meditation practice which can cleanse and all gross negativities. One is only allowed to learn this practice from a qualified Tibetan Buddhist Lama by receiving an empowerment and oral transmission. On this weekend one will receive in depth teaching on the Four Noble Truths and learn to do Vajrasattva cleansing practice. Vajrasattva empowerment will be given at 11.00am on Saturday.

Dates
Fri 24 May – Sunday 26 May.
Times
7 – 9.pm Friday and Saturday night
9am  – 5 pm Saturday and Sunday.

Free Public Talk Friday Night:

Acceptance of Natural Disasters.

Saturday Night Talk $15 / $10: OR  is free to those attending either day session.

‘How to Deal with Loss of Loved ones.’.

Main Topic
Buddhist practice, Vajrasattva and Four Noble truths.

Cost is $80/$70concession  Saturday
$80/70concession Sunday
$150/$130 concession for Full Weekend.

Venue:

Carville Seniors Hall

Cnr Albury and Diprose Sts. Pimlico, T’ville 4812

BYO Lunch.

Morning /a/noon tea provided.

BYO Jacket as A/C is cold.

Email:

pheang@bigpond.net.au

All members and Friends please be advised:

Tharlam Ling Buddhist Centre Inc. will hold its Annual general Meeting.

Date: Tuesday 4th June
Time: 7 pm
Place: JCU Chaplaincy, Building 131,Room DE001,  Monkhouse Road, James Cook University.

Light supper after.

Please attend and support your Buddhist group.

Membership fees are due $50 general, $40 concession.

Kind regards,

Phil Heang
President
Tharlam Ling Buddhist Centre Inc
Townsville.

DIRECTIONS TO CHAPLAINCY

If you travel straight ahead through main JCU entrance for nearly  1 k. you’ll see on the right, St Marks College.

Do u turn  and about 100m on take first turn left, where all the de- mountable buildings are. MONKHOUE ROAD, Chaplaincy is the low set brick build about 50 m  on the left.

We’re in Room DE 001, Bldg. 131 at end of Chaplaincy  Building near to the Child Care Centre.

FORMER JCU PHD STUDENT (ALEX ANDERSON),

NOW AN ORDAINED BUDDHIST MONK, ‘NGAWANG TENZIN’, WILL SPEAK ABOUT HIS JOURNEY TO BECOMING ORDAINED.

Hear him speak of his travels which took him to Norway, Brazil, France, culminating in his becoming a fully ordained monk.

His journey began here at JCU, Chaplaincy in 2009.

Light supper afterwards.

Ph Phil 0448 401 066

http://www.meditationtownsvilletharlamling.com

COST: Donation

ALL WELCOME.

Three Day Calm Abiding Meditation Retreat, and Teachings on Healing Goddess Parnashavari.

. Friday 31st August  – Monday  3 rd.  September 2018,

with Tibetan Lama Choedak, Rinpoche.

http://www.meditationtownsvilletharlamling.com

He has excellent English, speaking with great clarity, insight and compassion.

Lama Choedak Rinpoche

Lama Choedak Rinpoche is the most prominent Tibetan Buddhist Lama living and teaching in Australia for the last 33 years. As a graduate of ANU, he is an author, translator and an effective communicator. He has founded many Buddhist centres in Australia.

THREE DAYS OF MEDITATION WITH A TIBETAN LAMA

Meditation is an amazing practice of how to be present, to know, to see and change at will with the application of an immense power to love and live with kindness and wisdom. This power of good remains  dormant in all human beings. Buddhist meditation shows how to unfold this from within. This technique goes back some 2600 years of ancient wisdom and enlightenment.  Come and learn to meditate with a Tibetan Lama for a day. It will take form of listening to few short discourses, sitting, walking, standing and doing things with your hand. You will something valuable that will give tools to mend many broken areas of your life and help those around you.

Private interviews will be available with Lama Choedak.

LOCATION

The village of Paluma, Mt Spec, is 80 K from Townsville, North Queensland, 1000 m above sea level. (plse. note no pets allowed.)

This is a quiet village nestled in rain forest.

The retreat is a residential one with accommodation in cottages at Paluma.

Teachings will be in the Paluma Community Hall.

CATERING:

Vegetarian food, for  Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

Please bring your own morning and afternoon tea for each day, there is a fridge in each cottage. (Milk, tea coffee supplied.)

COST:

$400 for members, $425 for non members.

Cost includes Accommodation, vegetarian  food and Teachings.

Please book early as there is limited accommodation and the nearest camping is 26 k away over a dirt road.

The road to Paluma is bitumen.

Please contact through email :   pheang@bigpond.net.au

OR PHONE 0448 401 066

Three Day Calm Abiding Meditation Retreat, and Teachings on Healing Medicine Buddha. Friday 1st -Monday  4th  September 2017,

with Tibetan Lama Choedak, Rinpoche.

Paluma is 1000 m.habove sea level and mist rolls in late afternoon.

Lama will also give Teachings and empowerment on the practice of Healing Medicine Buddha. Lama Choedak is  Tibetan born and has been teaching in Australia for 30 years.

He has excellent English, speaking with great clarity, insight and compassion.

Lama Choedak Rinpoche

Lama Choedak Rinpoche is the most prominent Tibetan Buddhist Lama living and teaching in Australia for the last 28 years. As a graduate of ANU, he is an author, translator and an effective communicator. He has founded many Buddhist centres in Australia. He has just returned from one month of translation of Lamdre teachings by HH Sakya Trizin in Malaysia, attended by 600 people from 24 countries.

Healing Medicine Buddha Empowerment

Sickness is a common suffering of all living beings. However, according to Tibetan medicine, most illnesses are psychosomatic. Ill health that is generated by one’s unwholesome attitude cannot be cured by conventional medicine alone. This will help you understand how certain mind states can contribute to ill health, and to learn how to apply the appropriate antidotes. Discover the connection between thoughts, behaviour and speech, and the positive and negative effects they have on your health.

Lama Choedak Rinpoche will give the empowerment of the Healing Medicine Buddha and impart the transmission of the healing mantra passed down through an unbroken lineage since the time of the Buddha.

This will provide a complete training in practical as well as theoretical session on how to do the Healing Buddha’s meditation. You will also learn how to use it to assist friends and relatives who may be ill or dying. This profound meditation technique will compliment any form of medical treatment. This practice can reduce the side effects and increase the effectiveness of any medication. It is especially recommended for health professionals and those who are interested in learning self-healing.

THREE DAYS OF MEDITATION WITH A TIBETAN LAMA

Meditation is an amazing practice of how to be present, to know, to see and change at will with the application of an immense power to love and live with kindness and wisdom. This power of good remains  dormant in all human beings. Buddhist meditation shows how to unfold this from within. This technique goes back some 2600 years of ancient wisdom and enlightenment.  Come and learn to meditate with a Tibetan Lama for a day. It will take form of listening to few short discourses, sitting, walking, standing and doing things with your hand. You will something valuable that will give tools to mend many broken areas of your life and help those around you.

Private interviews will be available with Lama Choedak.

LOCATION

Paluma, 80 K from Townsville, North Queensland.

The retreat is a residential one with accommodation in cottages at Paluma.

Paluma is a quiet village set in the Mt Spec National Park Rain forest (plse. note no pets allowed.)

Teachings will be in the Paluma Community Hall.

CATERING:

Vegetarian food, for  Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

Please bring your own morning and afternoon tea for each day, there is a fridge in each cottage. (Milk, tea coffee supplied.)

COST:

$395 for members, $425 for non members.

Cost includes Accommodation, vegetarian  food and Teachings.

Please book early as there is limited accommodation and the nearest camping is 26 k away over a dirt road.

The road to Paluma is bitumen.

Please contact through email :   pheang@bigpond.net.au

OR PHONE 0448 401 066

Introduction To Buddhist Calm Abiding Meditation Begins Tuesday 17 May, 6 pm – 7:10 pm

Learn mindfulness of body, feeling and thought.

Suitable for beginner meditators.

Learn to deal with the ups and downs of daily life and remain calm!

Wear loose, comfortable, clothing.

People of all faiths welcome.

Venue: Chaplaincy Building 131 James Cook University.

Cost per lesson: $10 /pensioners $5.  ex Yabulu  workers and family, free.

Contact Phil.

Ph 0448 401 066

email pheang@bigpond.net.au

A WEEKEND OF BUDDHIST WISDOM AND INSIGHTS

WITH TIBETAN, LAMA CHOEDAK RINPOCHE 

As a former monk, Lama Choedak Rinpoche is a scholar and a great thinker. He is one of the most

prominent Tibetan Buddhist masters living and teaching in Australia, sometimes assisting HH Dalai Lama in panel discussions and translating for HH Sakya Trizin. As the most successful teacher, Rinpoche has founded 20 Buddhist centres, institutions and retreat centres in Australia. His 27 years of teaching experience brings the best Buddhist wisdom has to offer to everyone’s lives.

• Friday 29^th April 7:30 pm Public Talk: How to Deal with Uncertainty

 Saturday 30 April 9.00am – 5.00pm  and   Sunday 1st May 9.00am – 4.00pm

Buddhist Teachings: 37 Practices of the Bodhisattvas

The Thirty Seven Practices of the Bodhisattva is an excellent master piece composed by Gyalsay Ngulchu Thokme (1295-1369). It is a versified text that His Holiness Dalai Lama teaches at the beginning of most Kalachakra teachings. His Holiness says ‘this text contains the whole Buddhist path in a nutshell’. Lama Choedak Rinpoche, who heard the teaching from HH Dalai Lama in 1971 still carries with him a calligraphed copy of the text. Rinpoche will offer elucidating commentary relevant to the contemporary world on this 15th century Buddhist poetry. This poetry is often on the lips of Lamas and adepts. You will learn profound and practical living skills through compassion and wisdom.

 Saturday 30 April 7.30pm

Healing and Herbal Goddess Parnashavari Empowerment and teaching
Parnashavari practice will complement and induce the effectiveness of any medications. 

Venue:  Carville Seniors Hall, Cnr Diprose & Albury Sts. Pimlico, Townsville 4812.

Costs:    Saturday Evening  $15/10 concession.

Saturday $80/70 concession.

Sunday $80/70 concession.

Full weekend $160/140 concession.

PLEASE NOTE: MORNING TEA PROVIDED BUT PLEASE BYO LUNCH.

Please register  by contacting Phil :
email: tharlam@bigpond.com         Phone 0448 401 066