Join us for an upcoming Buddhist-style ted talk series featuring a remarkable lineup of experts in the areas of medicine, energy healing, and unconventional parenting. Get ready to elevate your mind and soul as you engage with our diverse panel of speakers - a Buddhist monastic, a palliative care specialist and energy healer, and an unconventional parenting consultant. Through their life-changing experiences, prepare to be inspired and transformed. This is your chance to elevate your life and become a better version of yourself. 

Don't miss out on this opportunity to gain new insights. Join us as we explore through the lens of the green Buddha virtue of Peace. Get ready to elevate your mind, soul, and life. See you there! 

Discover the transformative power of energy healing from Dr Roger Cole as he offers you practical tools and techniques to balance your energy systems, leading to physical, emotional, and spiritual healing and growth. Gain invaluable insights on end-of-life care and coping mechanisms from our palliative care specialist, as they share their experiences and knowledge of how to approach death and dying with acceptance, compassion, and purpose. 

Unconventional parenting consultant Freya Dawson will help you navigate the challenges of parenting with respect and noncoercion that foster healthy communication and relationships with your children. From the practical advice and guidance on common parenting challenges, you will get clarity, presence and energy to become a peaceful conscious parent, ultimately creating a loving and nurturing environment for your family. 

 Learn directly from Venerable Juefang on ways to apply Buddhism into your daily practice to bring more balance into your life.

This is your chance to join the Q & A and learn from the most innovative and thought-provoking leaders in health, spirituality, and parenting. Join us for a captivating afternoon of storytelling, wit, wisdom and self-discovery. Don't miss out on this rare combination of speakers. 

Find out from each speaker when they: 

• Made unconventional choices and stayed true to their path 
• Used a meditative practice to support their journey 
• Used compassion as a spiritual practice 
• Transformed negative experiences into positive action

Benefits 

• Give a few hours one afternoon to nurture your spiritual self. 
• Useful ideas that can be applied to family, friends and colleagues. 
• Find a peaceful path to parenting. 
• Be in community with like-minded people.

Meet the speakers and their topic. 

Join Venerable Juefang will share traditional Buddhist insights into mindfulness and meditation, where you will learn how to cultivate inner peace and compassion, unlocking your full potential to live a more fulfilling life. There may be unrealistic expectations on Buddhists to avoid, bypass or just ‘let go’ of conflict without resolving the cause of the conflict. So, what happens when Buddhists are placed in situations of conflict? How should we meet conflict should it arise in our personal and professional life? Ven. Juefang is the General Manager of the Hsing Yun Education Foundation and received her PhD in education studies from Peking University, China and her MA in Buddhist studies from Fo Guang University, Taiwan. 

Join Dr Roger Cole, a compassionate palliative medicine specialist, and energy worker, for an inspiring talk series based on his life-changing journey towards a state of unlimited love and oneness with everything and everyone. After attending a workshop in 1984 from renowned psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Roger released suppressed childhood grief and loss, go on to experience a sense of unlimited love and a state of being at one with everything and everyone. It lasted for three weeks. He found himself learning the art of channelling energy and meditation at The Garden of Peace in Stanwell Tops. While studying Helen Schucman's 'A Course in Miracles', Roger discovered a blissful and serene state that lasted for a year.

Despite being torn between becoming an energy worker and healer or following orthodox medicine, Roger chose the latter to develop his healing qualities through empathy, love, and compassion in his chosen field of Palliative Medicine. His intention was to relieve suffering and promote quality of life, and his approach was a combination of modern medicine and spiritual practice. He has over 35 years of training in compassion, kindness, meditation, and loving intentions, and he believes that diseases can be cured, or outcomes improved, through developing positive thoughts and elevated feelings with a clearly defined intention to heal. 

In addition to his medical career, Roger has also developed a disciplined lifestyle through daily meditation practice, which he learned and taught Raja Yoga meditation after becoming a student of the Brahma Kumaris. With Maree's gifted partnership, Roger has founded Quantum Health Solutions to offer events and workshops nationally and internationally to raise consciousness, promote meditation, positive thinking, healing, and well-being.   

Join Freya Dawson, a mother of two spirited boys, who understands the struggles that come with parenting. Her commitment to being a conscious and peaceful parent was put to the test when Freya found myself on a roller coaster of emotions, triggered by her children's behaviour. But, through this journey, she discovered a spiritual path to better parenting. 

In this talk, Freya will share how she navigated the challenges of parenting without the use of coercion, and discuss issues such as diet, expression of emotions, learning, gaming, and screen time, and offer tips on how to address them peacefully. Freya will also share the unconventional choices she made, such as home educating her children and adopting a cooperative family problem-solving approach. Freya learned to connect with the peace and joy within herself and to listen to her children in Presence. Freya used self-inquiry to unlearn beliefs that were bringing stress and conflict into my life. 

Freya’s commitment to respectful relationships has deepened over time and includes self-respect and self-care. Through her book "Joyful Parenting," teaching courses on parenting and unschooling, and mentoring parents, Freya has helped many others find a peaceful parenting path. Join Freya at the Buddha V Talk series event to learn how to transform your parenting journey and cultivate more peace, joy, and freedom in your family. 

 
This month we take the journey through the lens of the Green Buddha with a focus on the virtue of Peace and Tranquility. Each talk offers an eclectic mix of guest speakers covering a range of contemporary issues through the lens of the 5 Buddha Virtues - Courage, Health, Wisdom, Beauty and Peace, and each series is matched to one of the five Buddhas seen in the Main Shrine. This Temple-led celebration of universal human values offers a unique road mpa as we navigate our ways through challenging times. All people are welcome. 

See more of our speakers HERE

How do you benefit?

You will be armed with new insights & a fresh road map to your 'inner white Buddha'. Be part of the Q & A discussions. Make oral history together as we record "Oh My Buddha". Join us for a delicious vegetarian lunch at the Tea House at the Temple or the Nan Tien Arts Cafe, Nan Tien Institute (Nolan Street entrance).

What makes us different from other talks?

Our 5 monthly talk series are from diverse speakers exploring universal human values, inside the tranquil Buddhist temple.  Our costs are low, for people are more important than profits.

Who are the 5 Buddhas?

The Main Shrine is the most important building in a Buddhist temple. It contains 5 large Buddha statues representing the 5 virtues of the Buddha - Courage, Health, Wealth, Beauty, Peace - when combined, provide a path to enlightenment. Each Buddha wears a different coloured robe and signals a different hand gesture to represent a specific virtue. 

Who are we?

Nan Tien Temple is a non-profit charity organisation serving the community since 1995. We are a temple, monastery, hub, haven and a model offering educational and cultural programs. All ticket sales are used to continue our work in creating a more peaceful and compassionate world. 

Why we support the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals?

Nan Tien Temple and the Hsing Yun Education Foundation are committed to serving the community and play a vital part in achieving the UN's global goals namely in good health and well-being for all people,  peace, justice and sustainable communities (Goals 3, 11, 16, 17).

With metta.