In this eight-week course, we will explore the causes of suffering and dissatisfaction through the practice of insight meditation. By bringing our unchallenged beliefs and patterns into the light of awareness, we can see how our rigid ideas often blind us to the richness of our true nature. The wisdom that arises through insight meditation allows us to see our inner experience clearly. This leads to a sense of freedom, well-being, and confidence that is rooted in awareness itself and available to us each and every moment.
Tuesdays, June 15 to August 5, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
(In the Melbourne, Australia Timezone)
In the third level of the Joy of Living, Mingyur Rinpoche offers guidance on the practice of insight meditation, a profound form of meditation that uproots the causes of anxiety and suffering.
In this level, you will learn:
How to use insight meditation to break through the distorted ideas that create confusion and suffering
How to see beyond superficial thoughts and emotions to the basic goodness that lies within
How our rigid beliefs about ourselves and the world around us keep us locked in a cycle of dissatisfaction and anxiety
How to see things as they actually are, rather than the mistaken version of reality that we project onto the world
Each lesson includes experiential video teachings by Mingyur Rinpoche, as well as guided meditations and moderated discussions with Tergar Instructor Edwin Kelley.
This live, online course covers the same material as the in-person Joy of Living Level 3 weekend workshops, and all participants will receive a printable course and practice guide as well as opportunities to join ongoing weekly gatherings of the Tergar Australia Practice Group, and is currently open to practitioners anywhere, regardless of your current location.
Who can attend this course
This course is open to meditators who have previously attended Joy of Living 1 and 2 meditation workshops and meet the practice requirements.
Course Length:
8 consecutive Tuesdays from 6:00pm– 8:00pm (Melbourne, Australia Time)
Beginning June 17, concluding on August 5
Instructors: Edwin Kelley
Suggested Donations:
Standard Rate: $150.00 AUD
Sponsor Rate: $200.00 AUD
Concession Rate: $100.00 AUD
Repeater Rate: $125.00 AUD
Bursaries : Those who choose the sponsor level enable us to offer a number of bursaries will be available to ensure that, where possible, people with financial difficulties are not prevented from participating in this course.
We are also offering a number of complimentary places for First Nations people of Australia. Please contact melbourne@tergar.org for more information.
If your ability to pay makes it difficult for you to attend, please contact us at info@tergar.org.au for further options. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
Location
A Zoom link for the weekly meetings will be included in your confirmation email, sent once you complete registration. We will also send out a confirmation email with the Zoom link to attend the series sometime in the week before the first meeting.
Cancellation Policy
Registrations can be cancelled for a full refund at any time up to 24 hours prior to the start of the first event. Full or partial refunds cannot be made for any cancellations requested after this time unless under extenuating circumstances.
About your instructor, Edwin Kelley
Edwin Kelley attended his first meditation retreat near Perth, Australia in 1975. He later pursued a career as a public accountant and in 1992 went to Burma to undertake a six-month period of intensive meditation practice with meditation master Chanmyay Sayadaw. While practicing in Burma he ordained temporarily as a Buddhist monk.
In 1994 he was hired as Director of Operations by one of America’s best known meditation retreat centers, the Insight Meditation Society (IMS), in Barre, MA. Eighteen months later he was appointed Executive Director of IMS and served in that capacity until 2003 when he resigned to pursue further long-term intensive meditation practice.
Edwin first encountered Vajrayana Buddhism in Dharamsala, India in 1993 and became a student of Mingyur Rinpoche in 1998. He has a post graduate diploma in Buddhist Studies from the University of Sunderland in the UK.
In 2009, Edwin and his wife Myoshin, moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota to help establish the global Tergar Meditation Community, where he then served variably as Executive, and Co-Executive Director, and CFO, until retiring from his administrative role with Tergar International at the end of 2022. He now lives on the Sapphire Coast in southern NSW, Australia.