Meditation

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

Rejoice at being free to work on improving yourself, to get over self-pity.

Accept the inevitability of death, to make a difference while you still can.

Listening to, thinking about and meditating on the teachings are the necessary steps on the path to improving ourselves through the Buddhist methods.

To reach enlightenment and benefit all others, we need to regard everyone as equal and instead of cherishing only ourselves, cherish all others as our primary concern.

Listening to teachings on our precious human life and then thinking about them in order to recognize and appreciate what we have precedes stabilizing and discerning meditation on it.

Complete instructions on how to structure a meditation session.

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

Learn the difference between doing a shamatha meditation on compassion and a vipashyana meditation on compassion – between doing the analytical one and the stabilizing one.

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