Meditation

An introduction to meditation.

Vajrasattva practice is a tantric meditation done for the purification of negative karmic potentials. On an ultimate level, Vajrasattva practice is non-conceptual meditation on voidness.

Dzogchen meditation emphasizes non-conceptuality, but to recognize and rest in such a state, we first need to understand the various levels of mental activity and what conceptualization means.

How to get started with meditation? For most people, with meditation focusing on the breath and then generating love.

Tsongkhapa explains the factors required for effective meditation in both sutra and tantra practice and how both practices are necessary for cognizing voidness (emptiness) with a joined state of shamatha and vipashyana.

This commentary by Dr. Berzin explains how to conduct mahamudra meditation on the conventional and deepest natures of the mind.

Guru-yoga is done with visualizations, where we imagine that our own qualities of body, speech, and mind become joined with the good qualities of our spiritual teacher and uplifted by them.

The Kadam traditons’s sutra-level guru-meditation can be very helpful for some of the problems that have caused unhealthy relationships to develop with spiritual teachers in the West.

The five aggregates perpetuate suffering and unsatisfactory happiness, yet the state of mind that will get rid of the source of our suffering is within the five aggregates.

How to build up a feeling of love and extend it to all others.