Meditation

Extend your love for all others to be happy, to overcome feeling isolated and alone.

Detailed explanation of the Mahayana meditation of four close placements of mindfulness in terms of the sixteen aspects of the four noble truths.

Our topic for this seminar is the five Buddha wisdoms: the five types of deep awareness.

Conceptual thought has many varieties. Some are useful and some detrimental in meditation and daily life.

These sets of methods and exercises are an extension of the training program Balanced Sensitivity and help us integrate the various aspects of our lives harmoniously.

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

What has been listened to, what has been thought about and what has been meditated upon are types of conceptual cognition.

Shamatha emphasizes stabilizing meditation. Vipashyana emphasizes discerning meditation. A state of vipashyana is pervasive with being a state of the joined pair: stabilizing and discerning meditations.

Dzogchen explains the Buddhist path from the point of view of its final steps and resultant state. Learn the unique features of this system of meditation on the nature of the mind and how they contrast with those of mahamudra, Chan (Zen), anuttarayoga tantra and vipassana.

To deal with difficult experiences that arise in meditation and in retreat and to eliminate them, we need to know the causes of the problems.