Meditation

The Balanced Sensitivity program and its exercises aim to serve as a bridge between traditional Buddhist thinking and methods and the emotional problems we all experience and conceptualize in a Western way.

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.

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

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.

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

The Gelug presentation of meditations on the different Indian Buddhist tenet systems concerning the selflessness of persons and phenomena.

A guideline to the basic approaches, skills, procedures and orders of the practices that will lead to our progress.

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.

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