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Bob Sharples Book, Meditation, Calming the Mind

Meditation, Calming the mind; available in the Tara Institute Bookshop

Bob Sharples

Meditation: Calming the Mind explains the fundamental techniques of meditation, including what meditation is, why it is helpful and how to get started. You will learn about relaxation, why 'mindfulness' is important in developing a meditation practice and how it can improve the quality of your life. The techniques used are simple and easy to understand; techniques developed over centuries by great meditation masters. Included are special meditations for:
- developing loving kindness and compassion
- dealing with difficult times
- healing pain

Bob's meditation CDs are also available in the Tara Institute Bookshop.

 

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Friday 8pm May 25 to 6am Monday May 28

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Medicine Buddha Puja

Thursday 31st May at 7.00pm

and also

Saturday 2nd of June at 7.00pm

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Sunday June 3 at 10.00am


Harnessing Our Potential

One Day Meditation Workshop

with Dr Ross Moore

June 24th 9am to 4pm

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Dharma Quote

Why is bodhichitta necessary for success in meditation? Because of selfish grasping. If you have a good meditation but don't have bodhichitta, you will grasp at any little experience of bliss: 'Me, me; I want more, I want more.' Then the good experience disappears completely. Grasping is the greatest distraction to experiencing single-pointed intensive awareness in meditation. And with it, we are always dedicated to our own happiness: 'Me, me; I'm miserable, I want to be happy. Therefore, I'll meditate.' It doesn't work that way. For some reason good meditation and its results – peacefulness, satisfaction and bliss – just don't come.

Lama Thubten Yeshe gave this teaching during a five-day
meditation course he conducted at Dromana,
near Melbourne, Australia, in March, 1975