Meditation

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.

Working on ourselves entails listening to, pondering, and meditating on the teachings with analytical meditation and then with stabilizing meditation.

Conceptual thought has many varieties. Some are useful and some detrimental in meditation and daily life.

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

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

If we are aware of the ten mental factors that are involved with every single moment of our experience, we can mold situations in such a way that they optimize the experience.

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.

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

Complete instructions on how to structure a meditation session.