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Meditation
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Steps of Dzogchen Meditation
Recognizing the Alaya for Habits In dzogchen meditation, we first access and recognize the alaya for habits, then effulgent rigpa, and then essence rigpa. How to recognize the alaya for habits? The alaya for habits gives rise to seeing and hearing, as well as to imagining and...
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How to Meditate on Dzogchen
Starting a Meditation Session on Mahamudra
Review of the Preparatory Practices We have been looking at this text by the Fourth Panchen Lama called A Root Text for the Precious Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra, and we saw that after his salutation verses, and his presentation of what the subject matter of this text...
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Commentary on “Root Text for Mahamudra” – Dr. Berzin
Listening to the Dharma Teachings
What Meditation Does Meditation is a method for transforming and improving our lives. How? Well, our lives are affected by our personality and moods, which are affected by our living and economic situation, the people we spend our time with and so on. If we have any experience...
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How to Study Buddhism: Listening, Thinking and Meditating
Exercises for Adjusting the Ten Innate Mental Factors
Questions and Answers Let’s start our session with some questions. Karma I wonder if this statement is right or not: Every perception that we have through our six senses, along with the mental factors, is our karma, our past accumulated karma. Are perceptions which I perceive...
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Working with Mental Factors in Daily Life
Thai & Burmese Theravada Traditions of Mindfulness
The Thai Theravada System of Four Close Placements of Mindfulness Many people nowadays practice so-called “mindfulness meditation.” Mindfulness meditation is one adaptation of the Theravada practice of the four close placements of mindfulness. The Pali term for the close...
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Meditation on the 16 Aspects of the 4 Noble Truths
Preliminaries to Meditating
An Environment Conducive for Meditation To actually engage in meditation, we need circumstances conducive for it. There are many lists of factors that will be conducive for meditation, but these are usually discussed or presented within the context of doing a meditation...
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Meditation: Main Points
Guru & Avalokiteshvara: The Four Immeasurables
In our discussion of this practice, The Yoga of the Spiritual Master Inseparable from Avalokiteshvara, we have discussed taking safe direction and reaffirming our bodhichitta motivation, and now we are up to the four immeasurable attitudes, which is a very essential part of...
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Commentary on "The Guru Inseparable from Avalokiteshvara" – Dr. Berzin
Exercises & Further Points Concerning Negative Influences
Review Throughout our lives we have the thought of ourselves in terms of “me” and “my life.” We’ve experienced this the entire span of our lives, not just one year of it, and because we’re not some rigid, solid blob that can’t be affected by anything, we’ve been influenced by...
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Work-Life Balance: How to Get More Satisfaction in Life
Obtaining and Arranging Offerings
The second preparatory practice is taking care about obtaining offerings without hypocrisy and setting them up in a beautiful arrangement. Different Types of Offering When Atisha went to Tibet, he recommended that people make water offerings. People were poor, obviously,...
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The Six Preparatory Practices before Meditation
Starting a Meditation Session & Precious Human Rebirth
Reaffirming the Motivation We need to have a proper motivation for listening to the teachings; otherwise we will miss an opportunity to build up a great deal of positive force and to incorporate this teaching in our mental continuum. We try not to be motivated by wanting...
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Commentary on “Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun” – The Dalai Lama
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