Don’t forget that the Tara Institute gompa is always ready to accept your offerings of flowers, lights and incense! Please contact Ven. Lhamo on 9596 7410 for more information.
Offerings in the Gompa
Don’t forget that the Tara Institute gompa is always ready to accept your offerings of flowers, lights and incense! Please contact Ven. Lhamo on 9596 7410 for more information.
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