Meditation

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

Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey explains the Fourth Panchen Lama’s text that forms the basis for the Gelug/Kagyu tradition of mahamudra meditation on the nature of the mind.

Recommended initial and concluding procedures for each training session as well as for each exercise.

Tsongkhapa explains the factors required for effective meditation in both sutra and tantra practice and how both practices are necessary for cognizing voidness (emptiness) with a joined state of shamatha and vipashyana.

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

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.

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.

It is useful to not look at the mind as a “thing” but as mental activity, occurring moment to moment and which ​​can be non-conceptual or conceptual.

Vajrasattva practice is a tantric meditation done for the purification of negative karmic potentials. On an ultimate level, Vajrasattva practice is non-conceptual meditation on voidness.

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.