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One Heart- One Mind the Newsletter of the Association of Engaged Buddhists FEBRUARY 2012 One Heart- One Mind The Newsletter of the Association of Engaged Buddhists SANGHA LODGE: 20 Victoria St Lewisham NSW 2049! Ph/Fax: (02) 9590 3617 E: offi[email protected] W: www.engagedbuddhists.org.au Meditation & Dhamma Teaching Dana Days Association News A Visit to Chuckseosa 7.30pm every Monday night. Dana Days are held on the first Sunday of each New(ish) Committee Temple • Join with others in sitting practice. month. Attendees bring food to offer to the Temple in Korea Sangha and to share with each other. This is a Planning Meeting Page 6 7.30pm every Wed night. great way to show respect for the Sangha and • Meditation evenings include a Dhamma Zen Open Circle enjoy a delicious meal with others in the lay talk followed by around half an hour of community. guided sitting practice. Beginners or more Innovations at experienced meditators are equally Vejjasala Please note that we must start promptly at welcome. 10:30am in order for the Sangha to finish A Generous Gift • There is no charge for the teachings eating by noon. The Next Dana Day will be although donations are welcome as this is Sunday 3rd March Page 3 Sangha Lodge’s only means of support. Association. Sadly there have also been am and I know where I belong. A sense of a number of deaths and funerals early in belongingness, a, sense of finding oneself, The Year of the year. We will be having a special not in terms of ego identity in the usual Vesak celebration at Vejjasala this year sense of finding oneself, but in a different with the possibility of staying over if way. One begins to realize there is so much the Snake... you wish. Keep an eye on the newsletter in there, within oneself. So many resources, and e mail notices sent by the lovely talents, creativity, richness - it is all in there, May it be a year filled with good things and Molly. but unexplored. So the mystic says I can especially good health for you and your own up to everything that I am. And that is I would like to pay heartfelt tribute to a family, friends and all sentient beings. This where the peace of the mystic originates dear Dhamma teacher who passed away year the Association is offering our regular from, Knowing that he or she is not a self last year and who has had an programmes and many new things as well divided being...continued Pg. 3 association with Sangha Lodge and as the possibility of retreats at our centre for myself for many many years. The Most wholeness & healing, Vejjasala at Wingello. Venerable Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche This year we are making an effort to re- died at 12.10am on 24th July 2012 in enliven our Dhamma Exploration Melbourne. I offer this wonderful piece programme by holding a special form of of Rinpoche’s teaching for your Dhamma exploration called “Dhamma contemplation first: Bites” which will be held every two Mysticism is about finding oneself in such a months on a Saturday from 1pm until way that one is not only not alienated from 3pm and features a shared lunch. So oneself, but one does not feel alienated from please look out for the notices for these others and from the world at large. A mystic events. The year has begun in a very is someone who feels at home. This imagery busy fashion already with many is used by all kinds of mystics both in the hospice / hospital patients being East and in the West. Finding ones home. supported through the work of the This means the feeling that, I know who I One Heart-One Mind! 1 FEBRUARY 2013 Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX ...Continued from Page 1 Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche drew thousands of through the Himalayan mountains to seek Australians to the considered life of refuge in another country. Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX in Ordinary contemplation on the nature of mind. A Mind magazine, "The meaning of pioneer of ''integrated Buddhism'', he Life in exile, in Bhutan, India and Sikkim, mysticism", Summer 1997. exemplified the tradition that meditation is a was tough. In an overcrowded camp, path not only to calming the mind but to exposed to unfamiliar food and climate, his This passage so beautifully addresses mother died. the difficulty that so many people in the inner transformation of the self. West struggle with; that of avoiding For a young reincarnate lama, the He was born in 1955 in a remote pastoral making my spiritual life one in which I region of Tibet, at a time when China's expectations of an entire civilisation fell am splendidly isolated from others, People's Liberation Army was violently upon his shoulders. He fulfilled all solely about myself and utterly self- consolidating its power. At an early age he expectations and trained rigorously in absorbed. It bears re-reading and deep was recognised as the ninth in the lineage of Buddhist philosophy and meditative reflection. the Traleg Kyabgons, and was installed as techniques. Rinpoche was a very special being who abbot of Thrangu monastery in Qinghai There were 20 years of intensive study and had a most lively and generous province. practice at Rumtek monastery, Darjeeling, understanding of Dhamma and was Aerial bombardment of monasteries forced and the Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies tireless in his efforts at offering and him to trek across Tibet, to distant Lhasa, for in Varanasi. Later, in Bhutan, under the explaining the teaching of the Buddha to safety at the monastery of the Karmapa, head guidance of a Jesuit priest, Father William people in Australia and around the of the Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhism. Mackey, he learnt English. In the 1970s, as world. This too became exposed to the political Australians began exploring Buddhism, he violence of the times, leaving him no choice translated for His Holiness Karmapa, in Gabrielle Lafitte has written a beautiful exile in Sikkim. obituary which follows: but to flee south, leading a large group 2! One Heart-One Mind FEBRUARY 2013 In 1980 he migrated to Australia, where for Many invitations to teach worldwide were He was generous to a fault with his time the next 32 years he encouraged Buddhist accepted by Rinpoche but more were and resources. He was also a great practice to take root. He was a monk until he declined. By choice he always spent most of reader and was constantly exploring the was 25 and after that retained his position as each year in Australia, concerned more with spiritual life in his reading. Dr. Don was lineage holder. In 1986, he married Felicity the quality of his students' meditative a man with a lively intellect and a really Lodro. practice and philosophical understanding thoughtful human being. He also loved than with quantity of followers. to listen to classical music and had his Rinpoche was keenly interested in sound equipment in a special space in contemporary psychology, philosophy, As the body of practitioners grew, it became his home so he might truly enter the joy comparative religion, interfaith dialogue and possible to establish a contemplative retreat and spiritual benefits of music. I shall the hopes and fears of Australians. Within a centre in bushland above Healesville, miss him greatly and offer him a deep year of his arrival he had presented at an Victoria, for more intensive practice. bow of gratitude. international transpersonal psychology conference for health professionals in He also established centres in Auckland and Dr. Don’s loving wife Lena will miss Victoria. at Chatham in upstate New York. him deeply after so many years of marriage. We send her and the whole As a postgraduate in the religious studies Rinpoche is survived by Felicity, students Kal Kingi and Ani Jangchub, and a family our condolences and great loving department of La Trobe University and in kindness and compassion. May they what became an enormous personal library, community dedicated to continuing his work. take great comfort and joy in knowing he studied all religious traditions in depth; how loved Dr. Don was by all who knew early Buddhism in the original Sanskrit and Gabriel Lafitte him. My he come quickly to the Pali; and the Hindu doctrines critiqued by complete freedom of heart and mind Rinpoche’s passing reminds us to be early Buddhism. which is Nibbana!!! really grateful to our teachers and what He taught in centres throughout Australia they offer us. Sadhu to Dr. Don and Venereable Traleg and made North Carlton the base of Kagyu Rinpopche for their great example, love Last year also marked the passing of Dr. E-Vam Buddhist Institute (E-Vam and life. Institute). In more recent years he Don Wijeratne a most wonderful, skilful established the Yeshe Nyima Centre in and humble human being who was my May you all receive the blessing of the Parramatta. His non-sectarian approach is doctor for years and years. Dr. Don Dhamma. reflected in his centres showcasing the full passed away on September 27, 2012 spectrum of Buddhist approaches to the With gratitude and much metta, Dr. Don, as he was so fondly known by mind, art, therapy, healing and yoga, and he his patients had practised in Balmain Bhante Tejadhammo committed himself to creating opportunities since the 1970’s. He was the beloved for interfaith and interdisciplinary dialogue. husband of Lena. Loving father and He taught a wide range of texts, drawn from father-in-law of Kamani and Ruwan, the array of approaches and entry points that Chanaka and Sharmila.
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