Death

How to Use the Five Forces in This Life The fourth of the seven points is the condensation of the practices for one lifetime – how to condense all the practices into the essentials for a lifetime. This process is divided into two stages: what we do during one lifetime, and...

Overview of the Initial Scope In the past few sessions, we’ve been speaking about reliance on a spiritual master and the precious human rebirth. Both these topics serve as a foundation for the subject matter that follows. It is possible that there are people of extremely sharp...

These teachings from “Advice of an Experienced Old Man” by Gungthang Rinpoche deal with the sufferings of old age and lay the ground for bodhichitta.

The way to avoid suffering is to hold ourselves back from acting out of ignorance, anger or greed.

Gungthang Rinpoche’s text warns us that before the Dharma practice of tomorrow takes place, the death of today may come sooner.

A detailed look at the methods we use in anuttarayoga tantra to purify ourselves of experiencing the true suffering of uncontrollably recurring death, bardo, and rebirth.

Vajrabhairava (Yamantaka), the forceful form of Manjushri, is a father anuttarayoga tantra practice emphasizing methods for overcoming obstacles. In the Gelug tradition, it is the container within which all protector deity practices, as well as the combined practice of...

Mara personifies everything that interferes with and puts to an end our spiritual practice.

Guhyasamaja is called the “King of Tantras” since its commentaries by the Indian Madhyamaka masters Nagarjuna, Aryadeva and Chandrakirti provide the full mechanism for unpacking the terse and purposely enigmatic language of the anuttarayoga root tantra texts. As a father...

Kalachakra practice includes a special way of meditating on voidness in which we meditate not just on the actual meaning of voidness, but we also try to simulate doing this with a blissful clear light mind.