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Buddhist Teachings in Maryborough, Queensland, 122 Saltwater Creek Road, Maryborough (2025)

15/09/2025

His Holiness Dalai Lama upcoming schedule for online broadcasts. Mark your diaries.

Long Life Offering Cultural Performance in Dharamsala, HP, India
September 20, 2025

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will attend a Long Life Cultural Performance in honor of His Holiness' 90th Birthday Celebrations offered to him by South East Asian Countries and Korea in the morning at the Main Tibetan Temple Courtyard.

Teaching in Dharamsala, HP, India
October 3, 2025

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give a short teaching (topic yet to be decided) at the request of Taiwanese devotees in the morning at the Main Tibetan Temple.

Long Life Offering Ceremony in Dharamsala, HP, India
October 8, 2025

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will attend a Long Life Prayer offered to him by the Australian Tibetan National Association, Tibetan Communities Europe and Tibetan Youth Congress in the morning at the Main Tibetan Temple.

Gratitude Program to HHDL
November 17, 2025

His Holiness will attend a gratitude program offered to him by former students of 7 residential CST schools in India, Tibetan Children's Village Dharamsala, Tibetan Homes Foundation Mussoorie, and Tibetan Day Schools in India and Nepal in the morning at the Main Tibetan Temple Courtyard.

15/09/2025

The second transformation is occurring within the human mind. More and more, we are becoming overwhelmed by attachment, hatred, and greed. Because of this, our daily lives are increasingly marked by conflict, division, and manipulation. Qualities such as love, compassion, humility, and conscience are becoming less visible with each passing day.

If we continue to follow these negative patterns of thought, there is no doubt that disease, famine, and war will soon arise on Earth.

Therefore, each of us must cultivate and expand loving-kindness, compassion, truthfulness, and wisdom within our own minds. This is essential to prevent the causes of future suffering.

Every person has their own way of thinking—that is the nature of being human. But differences in thought and perspective should never lead to killing, violence, or destruction.

We must engage in open dialogue, respect systems grounded in truth, and rely on wisdom to resolve our problems. This is the path toward a flourishing and peaceful world.

Modern scientific knowledge must be applied in ways that enhance both our physical and mental well-being.

Thus, we must avoid actions that create division among individuals, communities, or nations—and we must not disturb or harm the minds of others.

If we misuse the powerful knowledge available to us today, we will undoubtedly create great suffering for ourselves.

Let us therefore refrain from using harmful words or destructive actions toward one another.
It is vital that we speak and act in ways that are constructive, compassionate, and unifying. མུར་འབར་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་ནས། KPG

13/09/2025

In general, there are many different kinds of meditation. But here, we are focusing on the type of meditation that leads to liberation and complete awakening. This kind of meditation is usually explained in two parts: preparation and main practice.

First, it’s important to rely on a qualified spiritual teacher who truly understands the path.
Second, you need to have a strong and clear wish for freedom from suffering.
Third, you must develop a solid understanding that everything happens due to cause and effect, and that karma is reliable — actions bring results.

You also need to understand that all things come about through dependent arising, and that they don’t truly exist in the way they appear — they’re like dreams or illusions. Their true nature is emptiness. To understand this properly, you should study teachings from the Middle Way and the Perfection of Wisdom traditions, and then combine that study with personal reflection and meditation. When you do this, you’ll start to truly understand the illusion-like nature of life.

There are many deep and advanced meditations, such as:

Meditation on emptiness,

Meditation on wisdom beyond concepts,

Generation stage practices,

Completion stage practices,

Dzogchen or the Great Perfection,

But if you jump into these advanced practices without doing the necessary preliminary work, it won’t lead to liberation. In fact, it may even make your mental and emotional struggles worse. And if you try to meditate without the guidance of an experienced teacher, there’s a risk of becoming confused or mentally unstable.

So, without the right foundation and guidance, meditation can become harmful rather than helpful.
མུར་འབར་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་ནས། KPG

12/09/2025

The Blessed One, the Buddha, taught that all phenomena are empty by nature. He also proclaimed that all phenomena arise dependently through causes and conditions, and that the law of cause and effect is infallible and unerring. These two teachings — the emptiness of all phenomena (śūnyatā) and the unfailing nature of karmic causality — are not mutually contradictory. Rather, they are presented in accordance with the respective contexts and capacities of sentient beings.

The teaching on the emptiness of all phenomena expounds the ultimate truth (paramārtha-satya), elucidating the actual mode of existence and the intrinsic nature of reality. In contrast, the teaching on dependent origination and the certainty of cause and effect corresponds to conventional truth (saṃvṛti-satya) and is conveyed in accordance with the deluded appearances and experiential perceptions of ordinary beings.

Hence, until we have thoroughly eradicated our erroneous grasping at appearances, it is crucial not to abandon or disregard the principle of cause and effect due to a mistaken understanding of emptiness. Should we one day directly realize the ultimate truth as it is, then — owing to the supreme significance of that realization — it becomes necessary to authentically internalize and integrate the view of emptiness as taught in the ultimate sense. མུར་འབར་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་ནས། KPG

02/09/2025

The Buddha is not the creator of the world.
The Buddha is the one who reveals the world’s true nature.

The Buddha does not harm or punish sentient beings.
The Buddha loves all beings with the boundless compassion of a mother.

The Buddha does not impose laws or commandments.
The Buddha protects sentient beings from harm and guides them away from wrongdoing.

The Buddha does not lead beings into confusion or ignorance.
The Buddha illuminates the path with the light of wisdom.

If one were to speak of an enemy of the Buddha,
That enemy would be none other than the mental afflictions—
Desire, hatred, ignorance, pride, jealousy, and others like them.
These are the true enemies.

Those who are trapped in these afflictions
Are not enemies of the Buddha.

All forms of suffering arise from these afflictions.
And thus, they must be:

Burned away by the fire of wisdom,

Overcome by the power of loving-kindness,

Conquered by the radiance of meditative concentration.

One who becomes free from these inner enemies
Becomes their own greatest ally—
A true and noble friend to themselves.
KPG མུར་འབར་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ།

31/08/2025

Among all things in human life, wisdom is of the greatest importance.
If one relies upon noble beings as spiritual friends,
All positive qualities will grow within oneself—
Like trees flourishing in summer.

Whether seen or heard directly,
Or even beyond what has been seen or heard,
Wisdom is the root and source of all virtue.

Without wisdom, even if one has love and compassion
For one’s family, companions, and others,
It is not possible to truly protect or benefit them.

But if one possesses wisdom,
Whatever activity one undertakes will not fail.
If one goes beyond ordinary understanding with wisdom,
One has the strength to attain even Buddhahood—
So achieving lesser goals is beyond question.

Wisdom is like the sun—able to dispel the darkness of ignorance.
Wisdom is like a lamp—illuminating what to accept and what to reject.
Wisdom is like a precious jewel—fulfilling all one’s aspirations.

Therefore, cultivate wisdom. མུར་འབར་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ། ། KPG

25/08/2025

When the Buddha Bhagavān turned the Wheel of Dharma,
At that time, there were two primary purposes for sentient beings:
The need for temporary happiness,
And the ultimate need for liberation.

Temporary happiness includes
A long life, freedom from illness, mental well-being,
And the fulfillment of worldly desires.
It also involves the ability to eliminate all forms of fear, suffering, and obstacles
Arising from both human and non-human forces in the environment.

The ultimate need is the attainment of liberation.
How is liberation attained?
By correctly understanding the meaning
Of the teachings presented in the path of the Dharma Wheel,
Then sincerely practicing the sacred Dharma,
And ultimately attaining Buddhahood—
This is what truly must be achieved.

Therefore, if you are a teacher who explains the Dharma
Of the Buddha’s tradition to others,
You must clearly understand these two kinds of needs.
Without this understanding,
It is not even the path of the Hinayana,
Nor is it the path of the Mahayana.
It is not a path that brings genuine benefit
Through meditation, rituals, ceremonies, and so on,
As practiced by many who merely follow outer appearances.
This is called “abandoning the root and searching for branches.

མུར་འབར་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ། KPG

23/08/2025

The Foundations of Benefiting Others: The Bodhisattva's Path

Before Bodhisattvas can truly accomplish the welfare of others, they must first cultivate the fourfold gathering of favorable conditions—essential practices that naturally draw others and create the ground for genuine connection and benefit. These four are:

Generosity – offering material support, protection, or the Dharma to meet others’ needs.

Kind and Pleasant Speech – speaking in ways that are compassionate, truthful, and encouraging.

Meaningful Conduct – engaging in actions that are morally upright and genuinely helpful to others.

Alignment with Others’ Aims – relating to others with empathy and flexibility, meeting them where they are in order to guide them effectively.

These four are the gateway to benefiting others. However, outer actions alone are not enough. Anyone who aspires to serve others meaningfully must also cultivate the following inner qualities:

Wisdom – a clear, discerning mind, especially with insight into the nature of interdependent origination.

Reduced Self-Centeredness – less attachment to personal gain, and a willingness to put others before oneself.

Bodhicitta – the altruistic intention to attain enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings.

Realization of Emptiness – deep understanding of the empty, interdependent nature of both self and others, freeing the mind from clinging and grasping.

Without these internal foundations, even well-meaning actions may fail to bring lasting benefit. In fact, without wisdom and selflessness, it becomes difficult not only to benefit others but even to fulfill one’s own spiritual aims. མུར་འབར་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ། KPG

20/08/2025

No matter how much time passes—even if a hundred eons go by—
Every action we do will eventually bear its result.
Not a single deed is ever lost.
When the right conditions come together, the effects will ripen.
Buddha Shakyamuni, The Hundred Deeds, 1.72 (first occurrence)

If one understands the connection between cause and effect properly,
There is no need to experience great suffering—either in this life or in the future.
Why is that?
Because when we clearly recognize which actions lead to suffering,
We can avoid creating those causes.

And even if we happen to create a cause of suffering,
If we acknowledge it quickly and purify it,
We will still be able to enjoy peace in this life, and even greater happiness in future lives.

A person who lives this way is called wise.
Such a person is like a precious jewel among human beings. མུར་འབར་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་ནས་སོ། ། KPG

19/08/2025

When we touch fire with our hand, it burns us—whether we believe it's hot or not. This is simply the nature of fire: it is hot by its very nature. In the same way, when we engage in non-virtuous actions, suffering follows. When we engage in virtuous actions, happiness arises. This is the essential law of cause and effect.

Cause and result never occur at the same time—the cause comes first, and the result appears later. Sometimes the result arises quickly; other times, it may take a long time to manifest. There are many variations in timing, but the principle remains unchanged.

If you seek happiness, you must create the causes of happiness. If you wish to avoid suffering, you must abandon the causes of suffering.

Understanding which actions lead to happiness and which lead to suffering requires discernment—guided by wisdom, truth, and the natural law of reality.

KPG

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