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, February 10 to April 7, 2026, 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 Myoshin 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.
If you are wishing to participate in the Path of Liberation Teachings for Mingyur Rinpoche's upcoming tour, and have not completed JOL, this will be the final opportunity to do so and meet the necessary prerequisites.
Course Length:
8 consecutive Tuesdays from 6:00pm– 8:00pm (Melbourne, Australia Time)
Beginning February 10, concluding on April 7
(No session March 24)
Instructors: Myoshin 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.
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, Myoshin Kelley
At a young age, Myoshin decided that school could not teach her what she wanted to know and decided that life would be her teacher. This led her to a lifelong journey of living in spiritual communities while exploring the inner terrain of being human.
Myoshin received dharma instruction from renowned Buddhist teachers Chanmyay Sayadaw, Sayadaw U Pandita, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, and Hogen Yamahata. She also developed a great love of retreats and at one point temporarily ordained as a nun in Myanmar.
Myoshin’s training as a meditation teacher began with Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in 1994. She was appointed the teacher in residence at the Forest Refuge, the long-term practice center at IMS, in 2003.
In 1998, Myoshin was introduced to Mingyur Rinpoche. Twelve years later she moved to Minneapolis to help Rinpoche and others with the formation of Tergar Meditation Community. For a decade she led the team to oversee the formation of Tergar meditation groups and the training of Tergar community leaders. As a Tergar instructor, Myoshin leads programs that experientially explore how the practice of meditation and the wisdom of an open heart support the path of awakening.
Nature has been a strong teacher and support for Myoshin throughout her life. She loves to do solitary retreats in nature as well as hike, bike, cross-country ski, and now swim in the ocean on the beautiful Sapphire Coast in Australia, where she lives with her husband Edwin.