Siddhartha's Intent Australia

15/10/2026

Keep growing no matter the circumstances 🌿

“Whenever you are making a decision or living life, you should — not only verbally — say ‘this is my opinion’. You should actually really believe ‘this is just my opinion’. This is really practising relative truth and ultimate truth, and this will actually make you very resilient.”

🎤 Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
Resilience: Ke Garne? Kathmandu, Sep 2026

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14/10/2026

14/10/2026

14/10/2026

Join us for our October Text of the Month teaching on 𝘈 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘜𝘵𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘴: 𝘐𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺-𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘛𝘢̄𝘳𝘢̄𝘴, with KVP Managing Editor Dr. Albion M. Butters.

The Twenty-One Tārās are among the most widely practiced forms of the goddess and appear in several Tibetan Buddhist lineages. Two of most well-known traditions—the Atiśa, and the Longchen Nyingtik popularized by Jigme Lingpa—present the twenty-one Tārās somewhat differently in terms of their color, form, and attributes. Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo’s praise follows the Longchen Nyingtik iconographic tradition, but with the distinctive inclusion of two additional, lesser-known forms of the goddess at the start.

In this session, Albion will guide us through both traditions, tracing their shared ground and their differences.

Albion M. Butters holds a Ph.D. in the History of Religion from Columbia University and is a docent at the University of Turku, specializing in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. He serves as Managing Editor at Khyentse Vision Project and is editor of Studia Orientalia Electronica.

📅 24 Oct · 4:00 PM UTC
🔗 Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ00fKUmShKoLgY6N-o7sw

13/10/2026

11/10/2026

DJKR: When I saw your question, I asked Gemini whether AI will kill us, and Gemini said “no.” You won’t find anyone with less authority than me on computer science in general, let alone on AI. So my answer to your question has to be “I don’t know.” But if you are using the word “kill.....

11/10/2026

International day of the girl child
When girls are given the chance to learn, they change the world around them. 💜
Every girl deserves the opportunity to go to school, follow her dreams, and build a future she chooses.
Today we celebrate the girls we support—and the teachers, families, partners, and supporters who help make those futures possible.

10/10/2026

Longing for the unlongable 🕉️

“You want enlightenment, and enlightenment is the realisation of the truth, and the truth is shunyata. Now, this is complicated because, how do you long for something that is un-longable? In all the vehicles, the method usually is, even though this is un-longable, what we then do is we try to destroy what you usually long [for], which is the opposite of emptiness. So we defeat what you long [for] like gain, praise, position, power. We try to defeat that, destroy that. Usually that's how the method works because the logic is, we know by longing [for] those things we end up getting deeper and deeper into trouble and suffering. So, by diverting ourselves from that kind of longing, we free ourselves from problems.

“Now, in the Ta**ra, because Ta**ra is... there are many reasons why Ta**ra is supposedly superior and grander, and one of them is the infinite amount of methods: endless methods. So, in the Ta**ra, shunyata now has colour, shape, twenty-one numbers, eight numbers, five numbers. So, the ta***ic method is to make you long for that.

“Also the Ta**ra is so skilled in using the human habit and psychology, and uses that as a stepping stone for the path. So, as a sentient being, we have this longing for mother, longing for sister, longing for a protector. So this psychology or this habit is used as a stepping stone, and [the] infinite methods of Tara as the mother, Tara as the sister, Tara as the protector.”

—Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
Teachings on Tara, Sao Paulo, 2014

🎨🖌️ Alicja Artista

10/10/2026

Education, healing, and hope. 💜
Many of the girls we support have experienced significant challenges linked to poverty, including difficult and traumatic experiences in childhood.
We know that education is only one part of building a brighter future. To truly support girls to thrive, we must also support their emotional wellbeing, confidence, and sense of safety.
Through our programmes, including CATALYST, girls have access to counselling and support services that help them navigate challenges, build resilience, and continue moving forward.
On World Mental Health Day, we recognise that caring for girls means caring for the whole person — their education, their wellbeing, and their future.
Because when girls are supported to heal, learn, and grow, they have the opportunity to break cycles of poverty and create new futures for themselves and their communities.