Meditation in Action

Meditation in Action

Are you looking to cultivate a calm and clear mind amidst the pressures of your daily life?

This course is intended for those who want to realise the benefits of meditation, wisdom and compassion, here and now in their daily life, to find more joy and spontaneity in every moment.

Meditation in Action will present these themes:

• Week 1: Opening our hearts
• Week 2: Spaciousness, mindfulness and awareness
• Week 3: Thriving with change
• Week 4: How to make everything spiritual
• Week 5: Living in tune with reality
• Week 6: Taking charge of your life

Meditation in Action is a 6-week course:

• with one session per week every Saturday morning from 10:30 am to 12 noon,
• from 29 June to 3 August,
• held online on Zoom and in person at Rigpa Brisbane.

Learn and practice the ancient art of meditation, working with your heart and mind, to cultivate your awareness and spaciousness.

About Bodhi

At Bodhi, we explore together, how each moment can be an opportunity to develop that peace and clarity, for our own wellbeing and that of others.

Bodhi offers a comprehensive meditation, compassion and wisdom program combining the essence of 2500 years of Buddhist mind training with the insights of modern science. Our aim is to contribute to greater mental clarity and compassionate and connected co-existence in the world.

This Bodhi project was created by experienced meditation practitioners and teachers as members of the Rigpa world-wide community.

Each Bodhi event offers:

• Inspiring short stories from the Buddha's life
• Guided contemplations
• Creative group discussions
• Time for reflection and contemplation
• Different meditation methods
• Answers to your personal questions
• Practical tips for integrating your meditation practice into daily life

If you’re not in eastern Australia here’s the time conversions:
Adelaide: 10.00am Saturday
Perth 8.30am Saturday
USA East Coast 8.30pm Friday
USA West Coast 5.30pm Friday
Europe (CET) 2.30am Saturday 



About Jan van der Breggen

Jan began his path of meditation at 17 years old, touched by the tenderness of the human experience and filled with questions about what reality was all about. Thirty years later, Jan continues to be moved by the vast profundity of the Buddhist path and its vision of the inherent wisdom, loving kindness and strength that lies in the minds of each and every one of us.

Jan completed Rigpa’s three-year retreat, is a Senior teacher, and, in 2017, he was selected to participate in the Milinda program, a 10-year, international Buddhist teacher training program under the guidance of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.

Jan grew up in the Netherlands and has lived in Brisbane, Australia, since 1998, where he obtained a postgraduate degree in information technology. He makes a living as a data and analytics professional for a large financial service provider. Jan was instrumental in founding Rigpa Brisbane in 1999, where he has served as a Dharma instructor for over 20 years.

About Jane Gray

Jane is a meditation instructor and non-executive director with health, education and charitable organisations in Australia.

Jane has been studying and practicing Buddhism since 2000. From 2006-2013 she trained in the authentic Buddhist teachings on meditation, mind, compassion and wisdom through the Institute of Wisdom and Compassion in France. This program was led by Sogyal Rinpoche and offered through Rigpa’s Home Retreat program.

Up until 2020, Jane was a senior executive in the Australian public health system, focusing on initiatives to cultivate more compassion and spiritual care and improve patient and family experience in the health system. 

Jane lives on the east coast of Australia with her husband Walter, also a student of the dharma. They have two adult children. She chairs the Rigpa Board in Australia and contributes to Rigpa’s worldwide governance.

About Daniella Vedelago

Daniella met the dharma in 2003, attending a public talk by Sogyal Rinpoche in her home town of Brisbane, Australia. Since then she has followed the Rigpa path of study and practice including the home retreat intensive programme. From 2011 you would often find her at Rigpa’s main retreat centre, Lerab Ling, enjoying the rich feast of teachings, empowerments and practice that happen there every summer. More recently she has been spending time in India following group vajrayana practices and pilgrimage to sacred sites.