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Main Course B

  • Jan 10
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Main Course B brings together students from diverse walks of life, cultural and educational backgrounds. Each semester comprises 20 sessions of 2 to 4 hours of weekly meditation (Sanzen-kai) within Mahayana Buddhism and the Soto Zen approach to Buddhist discipline. Its scope of study is larger than that of Main Course A with teaching being more explicit, detailed and performance oriented.


Join us on Sunday mornings in Heidelberg West, or Thursday evenings in Braybrook.


Location

Sundays: St Pius Primary School, Heidelberg West.

Thursdays: Quang Ming Temple Braybook.



Attendance

You can participate based on a committment, or on a casual basis. To commit, please register.


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Main Course C

  • Jan 9
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This is a yearly program based on three 7- day retreats in April, August and November.

Main Course C ushers students into intensive practice, study and ryo training at Bendoho retreats, a form of Zen monastic community practice, emphasizing Zen Master Dogen’s method of practices and teachings within his major work Shobogenzo, The Treasure House of the Eye of True Teaching.


For more information see Main Course C page.


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December 2025, Issue 102

  • Dec 18, 2025
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Editorial


Theme: Sangha and Lineage – The Flow of Wisdom


In Buddhism, wisdom is not a private possession but a shared illumination,

transmitted through Sangha and Lineage. It arises where practice, relationship, and understanding converge — not as doctrine but as living experience. Within the Sangha, we

learn from each other’s sincerity; through Lineage, we receive the distilled wisdom of those who walked before us.


Wisdom manifests not only as insight but as the way we live together — in

kindness, restraint, and compassion. The Buddha’s wisdom flows through

the ancestors to us, and through us to future generations. When we sit, listen, and serve together, the boundaries between teacher and student, past and present, quietly

dissolve. In this timeless flow, wisdom reveals itself — as community, as continuity, as the heart of the Buddha Way.


— Editorial Team

and Ekai Korematsu, Editor


Read this Myoju (file on Google Drive)

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