Meditation

We need to exert effort to rid ourselves of all obstacles to concentration, such as flightiness and mental dullness, during whatever meditations we may be doing.

Our meditation practice requires us to first analyze and understand the Dharma in order to integrate it into ourselves.

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 six preparatory practices derive from Atisha. They are preparation for any meditation session or session of ngondro preliminary practice.

An explanation of the terse and profound verses of the Third Karmapa’s “Mahamudra Prayer.”

Mahamudra is a sophisticated Buddhist system of meditation and practice on the nature of the mind.

The Dalai Lama’s deep, line-by-line explanation of this root text for mahamudra meditation reveals its subtler points.

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

Work on shortcomings and potentials, to avoid depression at your life going nowhere.

Learn how to balance the intellectual, the emotional and the devotional approach we have toward the Dharma.