Free guided meditations at 10.30am and 3.30pm.

Talks by experienced teachers from different Buddhist traditions at 11.30am and 2pm, which includes guided meditation.

A half-hour meditation workshop at 1 pm provides an opportunity to ask questions about your meditation prac-

tice - are you finding it a challenge to deal with a busy mind or you would like to move to another level with your meditation. Two of our most experienced meditation teachers will answer questions.

A free 30-minute guided meditation at 11 am.

The New Year Blessing Ceremony at 12 noon in our magnificent traditional Tibetan temple. Hear speakers and pray for a peaceful year for all living beings. A much celebrated and enjoyed community event. We invite community leaders and representatives of many religious traditions.

Free talks at 1.30pm and 3pm with experienced teachers exploring meditation and Buddhist philosophy.

Guided tours of the magnificent traditional Tibetan temple and the beautiful 10 acre gardens.

NEW YEAR MEDITATION FESTIVAL - Celebration of Tibetan New Year - Saturday 29 February- Day of Meditation - Sunday 1 March

You are welcome to join us at our New Year Meditation Festival on 29 February and 1 March from 10.30am to 4pm to explore how to find a kinder more compassionate world through inner peace.

Our festival combines a wonderful celebration of the Tibetan New Year centred around the beautiful traditional Tibetan temple and surrounding gardens, with a strong focus on meditation and also free guided meditations each day. Both days will feature:

TIBETAN BUDDHIST SOCIETY20 Cookes Rd, Yuroke, Vic 3063

10 minutes from Tullamarine Fwy exit - Melways 385 J8www.tibetanbuddhistsociety.org T: (03) 9333 1770 E: contact@tushita.org tibetanbuddhistsociety @BudTibetan

CELEBRATION OF TIBETAN NEW YEAR - SATURDAY 29 FEBRUARY 10.30AM-4PM

• Temple and garden tours• Tibetan crafts and gifts and stalls featuring books on meditation and

Buddhist philosophy• A second-hand book stall to support our local community food

program

• A children’s meditation and activity session under the trees eachday

• Delicious vegetarian food including Tibetan momos (dumplings)served at the rear temple Terrace Café

• Coffee, home-made chai and cakes• The Enjoyment Shop with beautifully selected products and gifts

Will also feature:

DAY OF MEDITATION -SUNDAY 1 MARCH 10.30AM-4PMWill also feature:

Festival daily entry $5. Family rate $10 - for two adults and school age children or younger.

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama

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Temple Rear Foyer. All proceeds support the Society’s community food program.

HIGHLIGHTS SATURDAY SUNDAY APPROX. DURATION WHERE COST

New Year Blessing Ceremony 12 noon 50 mins Temple FREE

Garden tours 11am, 2pm 10.30am, 1pm, 3pm 45 mins Meet in driveway outside back of temple FREE

Temple tours 10.30am, 2.30pm 12.30pm, 2.30pm 25 mins Meet near front steps of temple

Meditation for adults 11am 10.30am, 3.30pm 30 mins Temple FREE

Talks 1.30pm, 3pm 11.30am, 2pm 1 hour Temple FREE

Sunday workshop 1pm 30 minutes Temple FREE

Market stalls 10.30am to 4pm 10.30am to 4pm Rear of temple

Enjoyment Shop 10.30am to 4pm 10.30am to 4pm Temple front foyer

Terrace Cafe 10.30am to 4pm 10.30am to 4pm Back of temple Reasonable menu prices

Children’s crafts 11am to 2 pm 11am to 2 pm Back of temple FREE Parents must attend

Children’s meditation and activity session 2pm 2pm 30 mins Meet on the lawn at the side of

the templeFREE Parents must attend

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WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR MEDITATION FESTIVAL 2020

FESTIVAL TALKS AND GUIDED MEDITATIONS (FREE ENTRY)

SATURDAY 29 FEBRUARY 11AM – Meditation to Lighten Your Day Learn how meditation can be a brilliant way to set upyour day, each and every morning. Join Hilary Lynch for guided meditation in the temple. Hilary has been studying Buddhist philosophy and meditation for more than 20 years. Each participant will receive a free handout of simple meditations.

12 NOON – NEW YEAR BLESSING CEREMONY Hear Dr James Godfrey, Spiritual Care Coordinator of Thomas Embling Hospital and other guest speakers explore how meditation, combined with love and compassion, are powerful tools that can transform our lives. Join prayers and meditation for the New Year with the wish for peace and good conditions for people everywhere. Leaders from different faith, government and community backgrounds join the ceremony.

1.30 PM – Meditation for Difficult TimesIt can be very hard to keep our meditation going or start a meditation practice when life becomes difficult. However, this is the time when meditation can be so beneficial to anchor and steady us. Tough times also offer up the opportunity to tune in to the suffering of others. By

recognising our own difficulties, we more easily empathise with others. Our own suffering becomes the fuel to develop the compassionate good heart. Some simple meditations which can be very beneficial during difficult times will be explained and practiced.

Rosie McKew studied for many years with the Society’s founder and spiritual guide Venerable Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden and is a director of the Society. Rosie works as a pharmacist.

3.00 PM – Inner and Outer Peace through MeditationWe would all like to live in a more peaceful and compassionate world. Bringing more peace and kindness to the world can only begin with us. Through meditation we can find our own inner source of peacefulness and kindness, and progressively bring this into all of our actions and relationships, and into our world.

Martin Horan studied for more than 30 years with Geshe Loden, the Society’s founder and spiritual guide. He is a regular teacher at the Melbourne centre and a director of the Society. Martin works as a senior lawyer in the finance sector.

SUNDAY 1 MARCH10.30AM – The Magic of MeditationJoin Chris McKeown at 10.30am to learn about the almost magical benefits of meditation practice. Chris has been studying Buddhist philosophy and meditation for more than 30 years and is a student of the Society’s founder, Venerable

Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden. Each participant will receive a free handout of simple meditations.

11.30AM – The Dharma gate of joyful easeAs meditation gained popularity due to the recognition of its innumerable benefits for the welfare of all, many forms of meditation are practised today; some even beyond the bounds of Buddhism. According to Zen Master Dogen (1200 - 1253), the zazen he speaks of is “simply the

Dharma gate of joyful ease, the practice realisation of totally culminated enlightenment”. The public is interested in how to cultivate inner happiness through meditation. Zazen (seated meditation) is discussed in this context. Participants will be guided in a short meditation.

Ekai Korematsu Roshi is the Abbot and resident teacher of Jikishoan ZenBuddhist Community. Born in Japan in 1948, Roshi studied humanities andBuddhism in Denmark and USA, and was ordained a monk by Kobun ChinoRoshi in 1976 in the USA. Roshi received dharma transmission from IkkoNarasaki Roshi in 1986. His formal Buddhist training encompassed twelveyears at three Japanese monasteries - Eiheiji, Zuijo and Shogoji. In 1999 Roshiestablished the Jikishoan Zen Buddhist Community in Melbourne.

1PM - Meditation workshop - your questions answered - See inset at the left.

2.00 PM – The Invisible SunThe marvellous sun illuminates our external world, giving life through an unceasing supply of colour and warmth. As we frantically rush through our hectic lives, how good would it be to find its counterpart in the internal world? The Buddha explained that through meditation we can

discover just such an extraordinary source of peace and well-being within.

The talk is by Tim McKibben who is an author and long term student and director of the Tibetan Buddhist Society.

3.30 PM – Meditation for HappinessJoin one of our younger generation of students, Tara Sleeman, for meditation to help increase your happiness and enjoyment of life. Tara has been a student of Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden her whole life. She has received initiations and teachings from Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, and is a student of Les Sheehy (TBS Perth). On the advice of

Geshe Loden, Tara is studying Information Technology (Bachelor of Design - User-Experience) at Swinburne University, with the intention to makeDharma more accessible in this digital age.

1PM Sunday - Art of Meditation - your questions answeredBring your questions to this session and explore the art of meditation - with long time Tibetan Buddhist Society meditation and Buddhist philosophy teachers, Michael Joseph and Venerable Cath Evans.

NEW INTRODUCTORY SERIES – CULTIVATING MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION

THE COURSE IS ON SUNDAY 8, 15 AND 22 MARCH FROM 1.30-3PM

Our new introductory series is for anyone interested in understanding Buddhist approaches to a happier and more

peaceful life, and how to use meditation to achieve this way of way of being.

The teacher, Pam Martin, is a long time student of our spiritual founder, Venerable Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden. The course is based on Geshe-la’s extraordinary text, Meditations on the Path

to Enlightenment. The series is a relaxed way to explore Buddhist approaches to leading contented lives, and the practical steps for

developing positive states of mind. We’ll learn about practising love and compassion as a path to happiness, and how to feel

peaceful in this challenging world.

SPECIAL VISIT BY HIS EMINENCE LING RINPOCHETEACHING AND INITIATIONS FROM 3-7 APRIL

We are delighted and honoured that His Eminence Ling Rinpoche will give teachings and initiations at the Tibetan Buddhist Society in April 2020. His Eminence Ling Rinpoche is the reincarnation

of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Senior Tutor. He teaches around the world attracting large audiences wherever he goes.

A close student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he was the principal organiser of His Holiness’s series of Lam Rim teachings

in India from 2012 to 2015. Visit tibetanbuddhistsociety.org to learn more and register.

PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT – 4PM SUNDAYS FROM SUNDAY 8 MARCH

This series with Tim McKibben, a regular teacher and director of the Society, provides practical instruction on the foundation

Buddhist concepts and practices.

The Path to Enlightenment presents the Buddha’s teachings as an accessible and vital living tradition of mental and

spiritual development.

It explains the stages of spiritual practice from the beginning to more advanced meditation and practical teachings on achieving

enlightenment - the greatest expression of human potential.

ROSE GARDEN OPEN DAYS (FREE ENTRY) 18 & 19 APRIL 2020 12 NOON – 4 PM

The popular Rose Garden weekend opening will be held again on Saturday and Sunday 18 & 19 April 2019. Visitors to the

Peaceful Land of Joy remark upon the relaxing atmosphere that is felt as soon as they arrive. The opening is a wonderful

opportunity to take time out from our busy lives. There will be free tours of the beautiful garden and magnificent traditional temple, Devonshire teas, home-made cakes, the Enjoyment Shop, free

guided meditations and second-hand book stall.

EASTER RETREAT - CULTIVATING THE JOYOUS MIND OF CALM ABIDING

9.30AM – 6PM, 11 & 12 APRIL (NON-RESIDENTIAL)

The mind of calm abiding is an especially settled meditative concentration that can focus effortlessly on its object. The

retreat, Cultivating the Joyous Mind of Calm Abiding, will be led by Michael Joseph, who is a regular teacher at the centre and

a long-time student of the Society’s founder and spiritual guide, Venerable Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden.

Having developed calm abiding we experience great mental and physical joy. Calm abiding sustains our health, and in conjunction with special insight makes it easy to develop realisations such as great love, great compassion, the wisdom perceiving emptiness,

and generation and completion stages.

The Indian Buddhist texts lay out the nine stages of increased single-pointed concentration that lead to calm abiding. During

this retreat you will learn about those nine stages, and also the various obstacles and supports to developing deep

concentration. Each session will include guided meditation on how to cultivate calm abiding. For more information and to

register please visit tibetanbuddhistsociety.org

AFTER THE FESTIVAL

TIBETAN BUDDHIST SOCIETY20 Cookes Rd (access from Mickleham Rd), Yuroke, Vic 3063

10 minutes from Tullamarine Fwy exit - Melways 385 J8

tibetanbuddhistsociety.org contact@tushita.org tibetanbuddhistsociety @BudTibetan

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