Meditation

Buddha-family traits are factors that everybody has, which, when fully developed, enable everyone to become a Buddha. In this sense, we all belong to this one family.

Although there are several variations in ways to practice the four close placements of mindfulness, here we examine the Theravada methods as taught by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu.

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.

Meditation on death and impermanence is an essential Buddhist practice. It gives us a sense of urgency and strong motivation to practice the Dharma.

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

A commentary by Serkong Rinpoche focusing on mahamudra as a meditation on the mind’s void nature.

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.

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

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.”