Buddhist Teachings in Maryborough, Queensland

31/10/2025

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31/10/2025

About those past misdeeds that we have performed but cannot recall, we can contemplate like this: “All the misdeeds that I have committed since beginningless time, intentionally or unintentionally, are all wrong. As if they are the poison I have taken, I feel the greatest fear and regret for my actions, and vow never to commit them ever again.” This way, all negative karma can be changed into mutable karma. The significance of such resolution cannot be overstated. Otherwise, any karmic effect will be possible if this is not done.

~ Khenchen Tsultrim Lodro Rinpoche

29/10/2025

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28/10/2025

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According to the Tibetan calendar, we have now entered the sacred month of Lha Bab Düchen (the Festival of the Buddha’s Descent from Heaven), which extends from October 22 to November 20 this year. During this most auspicious period, the merit of all virtuous actions is multiplied ten millionfold.

In keeping with our tradition, during this month we will accumulate 300,000 recitations of the Amitabha Buddha mantra “Om Ami Dewa Ayu Siddhi Hum Hrih” or the Buddha’s name “Namo Amitabha Buddha”. Through this profound practice, we generate heartfelt prayers for world peace and the happiness of all sentient beings, and fervently aspire for rebirth in Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land of Sukhavati.

27/10/2025

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Don’t Miss A BUDDHIST GUIDE TO LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN AND ILLNESS with Toni Bernhard, online Sunday, November 2!

The acclaimed author of How to Be Sick, How to Live Well, and How to Wake Up, returns to New York Insight Meditation Center for a two-hour online program about adjusting gracefully to life with chronic pain and illness. She’ll use the Buddha’s teachings to address the specific challenges that those who are sick or in pain face. Through discussion, reflection, and meditation, we’ll explore how to cope with uncertainty about the future, the relentlessness of symptoms, feeling dismissed by doctors, managing loneliness, caregiver burnout, and several other topics.

Register at https://www.nyimc.org/event/living-with-chronic-pain-and-illness-11-25/
Explore Toni’s books at https://rebrand.ly/Toni-Bernhard-Books

25/10/2025

20/10/2025

If you wish to be a genuine practitioner of the Buddha’s path,
you should cultivate the means to prevent desire, anger, and ignorance from arising.
Any action motivated by these three poisons is unwholesome,
while all actions inspired by freedom from attachment, hatred, and delusion are wholesome and virtuous.

When intense anger arises toward an enemy,
one may speak harshly or deceitfully, use careless words,
or, in the mind, harbor resentment, wish harm, or cling to wrong views.
And if one’s actions even go so far as to take life or steal,
such a person will find it very difficult
to become a true practitioner of the sacred Dharma. མུར་འབར་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ། KPG

19/10/2025

Pong-Re Rinpoche was born in New Zealand to Tibetan parents. Recognized at a young age as i high reincarnation, he went to study in Dharamsala in India.

16/10/2025

04/10/2025

The Buddhas and pure lands, sentient beings and hell-beings—all arise from the mind.
But how do they arise from the mind?
When wholesome thoughts become abundant within the mind, then happiness within the mind increases.
And one day, if all afflictive thoughts completely cease within the mind, at that time, all external environments will appear as pure realms,
and all sentient beings will appear in the nature of gods and goddesses.

On the other hand, when unwholesome thoughts become abundant within the mind, then suffering within the mind increases.
And one day, if there is not a single virtuous thought in the mind, then at that time, all external environments will appear as hells,
and all sentient beings will appear in the nature of the Lord of Death and his minions.

Therefore, placing one’s own mind on the path of virtue is the very essence of attaining a meaningful human life.
A virtuous mind is the cause of happiness.
An unvirtuous mind is the cause of suffering.

Yet, many animals and humans do not understand this law of cause and effect.

From a virtuous mind arise love, compassion, renunciation, the mind of enlightenment, realization of the natural state, and correct view.
From an unvirtuous mind arise ignorance, anger, desire, wrong views, and other negative qualities.

Thus, it is very important to cultivate and transform one’s own mind. KPG མུར་འབར་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ།