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E-Vam Institute, 673 Lygon Street, Princes Hill (2026)

09/06/2026

In this excerpt from How to Live a Fulfilling Life: A Buddhist Perspective, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX explores how understanding interdependence transforms the way we relate to others.

This teaching is from the final session of E-Vam Institute’s Meditation & Teachings Series — a retreat-like day of meditation, reflection, and audio teachings by Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX.

How We Relate to Ultimate Reality
Saturday 13 June
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
In person at E-Vam Institute & Online

The session explores how our view of reality shapes the way we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. It includes teachings on change, causes and conditions, emptiness, interdependence, interconnectedness, and how understanding the interdependent nature of all things can bring greater belongingness and ease.

Bookings:
https://evaminstitute.org/event/meditation-and-teachings-series-how-to-live-a-fulfilling-life-a-buddhist-perspective/

The teachings are drawn from How To Do Life: A Buddhist Perspective by Traleg Kyabgon, published by Shogam Publications.

Book:
https://www.shogam.com/project/how-to-do-life-a-buddhist-perspective/

08/06/2026

In this excerpt, Do Tulku Rinpoche speaks about the destructive force of anger, and how it can take hold before we even realise what is happening.

Rather than waiting until anger has already overwhelmed us, Rinpoche points to the importance of recognising what feeds it: the discomfort, frustration and resistance that arise when things do not go the way we want.

To work with anger, we need to recognise its cause, cut off its fuel, and learn to protect a joyful mind —

Online | Mondays
8 June & 22 June
7:30–9pm AEST
Bookings:https://evaminstitute.org/event/the-way-of-the-bodhisattva-with-do-tulku-rinpoche-on-vigilant-introspection-3/

04/06/2026

Winter Zen Teachings
with Ekai Korematsu Roshi

Learning the Way Through Body and Mind

“You cannot realize the Buddha’s Way
if you do not aim to practice the Way,
and it will be ever more distant from you
if you do not aim to study it.”
— Zen Master Dōgen

In the 2026 Winter Zen Lectures, Ekai Korematsu Roshi explores Dōgen Zenji’s profound fascicle, Shōbōgenzō Shinjin Gakudō — Learning the Way Through Body and Mind.

Across four 90-minute sessions, participants will examine Dōgen’s teaching that the Buddha Way is realised not through abstract thought alone, but through wholehearted practice expressed in body, mind and everyday activity.

Fridays 3, 10, 17 & 24 July 2026
7:30pm – 9pm

At E-Vam Institute or online via Zoom
Bookings: https://evaminstitute.org/event/winter-zen-teachings-with-ekai-korematsu-roshi-learning-the-way-through-body-and-mind/

31/05/2026

In this excerpt, Do Tulku Rinpoche explores the concluding verses of the chapter on Vigilant Introspection from Shantideva’s The Way of the Bodhisattva.

Vigilant introspection is the awareness that guards the mind from carelessness, distraction and harm. In this teaching, Rinpoche reminds us that it is not enough simply to read or understand the instructions: like medicine, the teachings need to be taken up and put into practice.

Having now completed the chapter on Vigilant Introspection, this week Do Tulku Rinpoche begins
Shantideva’s chapter on Patience — making this a wonderful time to join the series.

The chapter on Patience explores how to work skilfully with anger, frustration and the difficulties that arise when we do not get what we want, meet what we do not want, or find our wishes obstructed.

So come what may, I’ll not upset
My cheerful happiness of mind.
Dejection never brings me what I want;
My virtue will be warped and marred by it.

If there’s a remedy when trouble strikes,
What reason is there for dejection?
And if there is no help for it,
What use is there in being glum?

— Shantideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva

Join Do Tulku Rinpoche for three online teachings on Shantideva’s treasured Buddhist classic, The Way of the Bodhisattva.

Online | Mondays
1 June, 8 June & 22 June
7:30–9pm AEST
Bookings:
https://evaminstitute.org/event/the-way-of-the-bodhisattva-with-do-tulku-rinpoche-on-vigilant-introspection-3/

20/05/2026

Join Do Tulku Rinpoche for four online teachings on Shantideva’s treasured Buddhist classic, The Way of the Bodhisattva.

In this series, Rinpoche will continue his annual teachings on this profound Mahayana text, bringing its wisdom to life in a way that is accessible, practical, and deeply relevant to everyday experience.
Focusing on Vigilant Introspection and Patience, these teachings explore how we can work skilfully with anger, frustration, and the difficulties that arise when life does not go the way we want.

“If there’s a remedy when trouble strikes,
What reason is there for dejection?”

Online | Mondays
25 May, 1 June, 8 June & 22 June
7:30–9pm AEST

Bookings: https://evaminstitute.org/.../the-way-of-the-bodhisattva.../

18/05/2026

Join Do Tulku Rinpoche for four online teachings on Shantideva’s treasured Buddhist classic, The Way of the Bodhisattva.

In this series, Rinpoche will continue his annual teachings on this profound Mahayana text, bringing its wisdom to life in a way that is accessible, practical, and deeply relevant to everyday experience.
Focusing on Vigilant Introspection and Patience, these teachings explore how we can work skilfully with anger, frustration, and the difficulties that arise when life does not go the way we want.

“If there’s a remedy when trouble strikes,
What reason is there for dejection?”
Online | Mondays
25 May, 1 June, 8 June & 22 June
7:30–9pm AEST
Bookings: https://evaminstitute.org/event/the-way-of-the-bodhisattva-with-do-tulku-rinpoche-on-vigilant-introspection-3/

15/05/2026

Teachings By Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX

The Importance of Positive Thoughts and Our Relationship with Others
This Saturday 16 May

How do our thoughts shape the world we experience? And how do they affect the way we relate to others?

In this session, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche explores the Buddhist insight that we become what we think — and how negativity and egoic thought can distort our self-image, emotions, speech, actions, and experience of the world.

The teachings explore:
• how actively cultivating positive thoughts and wholesome emotions helps free us from these patterns and opens a clearer, more authentic, and fulfilling way of living
• how loneliness and a “poverty-stricken mentality” keep us looking outside ourselves for fulfilment, yet leave us dissatisfied
• how becoming more enriched within allows relationships to move beyond need, demand, and transaction into something more open and authentic
• how love, compassion, and genuine care open us to real “communication or communion” — and why, as Rinpoche says, “caring for others is what truly ennobles us”

The Meditation & Teachings Series offers an immersive retreat-like day of meditation, reflection, and Buddhist teachings, with meditation practice, audio teachings by Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX, and guidance and support for newcomers. Reflection questions are also available to support engagement with the teachings.

Future Meditation and Teaching sessions:
16 May 2026
13 June 2026

Join us in person at E-Vam Institute Melbourne or online.
https://evaminstitute.org/event/meditation-and-teachings-series-how-to-live-a-fulfilling-life-a-buddhist-perspective/

13/05/2026

Teachings By Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX

The Importance of Positive Thoughts and Our Relationship with Others
This Saturday 16 May

How do our thoughts shape the world we experience? And how do they affect the way we relate to others?

In this session, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche explores the Buddhist insight that we become what we think — and how negativity and egoic thought can distort our self-image, emotions, speech, actions, and experience of the world.

The teachings explore:
• how actively cultivating positive thoughts and wholesome emotions helps free us from these patterns and opens a clearer, more authentic, and fulfilling way of living
• how loneliness and a “poverty-stricken mentality” keep us looking outside ourselves for fulfilment, yet leave us dissatisfied
• how becoming more enriched within allows relationships to move beyond need, demand, and transaction into something more open and authentic
• how love, compassion, and genuine care open us to real “communication or communion” — and why, as Rinpoche says, “caring for others is what truly ennobles us”

The Meditation & Teachings Series offers an immersive retreat-like day of meditation, reflection, and Buddhist teachings, with meditation practice, audio teachings by Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX, and guidance and support for newcomers. Reflection questions are also available to support engagement with the teachings.

Future Meditation and Teaching sessions:
16 May 2026
13 June 2026

Join us in person at E-Vam Institute Melbourne or online.
https://evaminstitute.org/event/meditation-and-teachings-series-how-to-live-a-fulfilling-life-a-buddhist-perspective/

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12/05/2026

The Importance of Positive Thoughts and Our Relationship with Others

This Saturday 16 May

How do our thoughts shape the world we experience? And how do they affect the way we relate to others?

In this session, listen to Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche as he explores the Buddhist insight that we become what we think and this in turn effects others. Also, how negativity and egoic thought can distort our self-image, emotions, speech, actions, and experience of the world.

The teachings explore:
• how actively cultivating positive thoughts and wholesome emotions helps free us from these patterns and opens a clearer, more authentic, and fulfilling way of living
• how loneliness and a “poverty-stricken mentality” keep us looking outside ourselves for fulfilment, yet leave us dissatisfied
• how becoming more enriched within allows relationships to move beyond need, demand, and transaction into something more open and authentic
• how love, compassion, and genuine care open us to real “communication or communion” — and why, as Rinpoche says, “caring for others is what truly ennobles us”

The Meditation & Teachings Series offers an immersive retreat-like day of meditation, reflection, and Buddhist teachings, with meditation practice, audio teachings by Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX, and guidance and support for newcomers. Reflection questions are also available to support engagement with the teachings.

Future Meditation and Teaching sessions:
16 May 2026
13 June 2026

Join us in person at E-Vam Institute Melbourne or online.

Event link: https://evaminstitute.org/event/meditation-and-teachings-series-how-to-live-a-fulfilling-life-a-buddhist-perspective/.

23/04/2026

Learn authentic Buddhist practices you can integrate into daily life.

Meditation, wisdom, and compassion training for under 35s.
New monthly format. Shared vegan lunch included.

E-Vam Institute
Inner Melbourne | $20
https://evaminstitute.org/event/under-35-urban-retreat/

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