Our courses at the Centre are packed with practical wisdom and include the opportunity to receive teachings from a qualified teacher and to contemplate and meditate on these instructions.
Start the new year with a meditation challenge! Join us for a special opportunity to meditate on the stages of the path to enlightenment, known as ‘Kadam Lamrim’. Join in for a single week, or complete the challenge and join in with all three weeks.
On Sunday 12th January from 10-11.30am our Resident Teacher Kelsang Tara will give a practical introduction to the meditation challenge – sharing insights for effective meditation and how we can carry our meditation experience into our daily life.
Then, every week-day morning from 7-8.15am for three weeks, Kelsang Tara will guide one of the 15 meditations on Kadam Lamrim presented in the book ‘The Mirror of Dharma with Additions’. Having kick-started our day developing mental peace and increasing our wisdom, we then enter the rest of the day with more peace, purpose and perspective. Over 15 days we will build the foundation of the path to enlightenment in our minds!
We will combine our meditations with the practice of Heart Jewel, the daily prayer practice within Kadampa Buddhism that helps us to prepare our minds for meditation by accumulating positive energy, purifying our negative karma and receiving blessings and inspiration for our practice.
Recommended Reading
The Mirror of Dharma with Additions, ‘What Is Meditation?’ pg 61-65
Each evening, read the meditation scheduled for the following morning – The Mirror of Dharma with Additions, pg 64-135
Extra Reading
Heart Jewel book to gain familiarity with Heart Jewel Prayers
Meditation Topics
Week 1
Mon 13th Jan: The Preciousness of Our Human Life
Tue 14th Jan: Meditation on Death
Wed 15th Jan: The Danger of Lower Rebirth
Thu 16th Jan: Going for Refuge
Fri 17th Jan: Karma
Week 2
Mon 20th Jan: Renunciation – 1st Noble Truth
Tue 21st Jan: Renunciation – 2nd Noble Truth
Wed 22nd Jan: Renunciation – 3rd Noble Truth
Thu 23rd Jan: Renunciation – 4th Noble Truth
Fri 24th Jan: Cherishing All Living Beings
Week 3
Mon 27th Jan: Universal Compassion
Tue 28th Jan: The Supreme Good Heart, Bodhichitta
Wed 29th Jan: The Six Perfections
Thu 30th Jan: Emptiness
Fri 31st Jan: Relying Upon a Spiritual Guide
The Teacher
Kelsang Tara is a fully ordained Australian Buddhist nun and the Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Centre Perth.
Tara has been studying and practising Kadampa Buddhism for many years, and ordained as a Buddhist nun in 2015. Tara’s inspiring teachings reflect her sincere wish to help those in need and to share her experience of Buddha’s life-changing instructions with others.
Details & Bookings
Reduced rates available for Centre Members. Learn more about membership here.
