Meditation

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

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.

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

The Kadam traditons’s sutra-level guru-meditation can be very helpful for some of the problems that have caused unhealthy relationships to develop with spiritual teachers in the West.

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

The basis of the meditation on voidness is the identification and understanding of what is to be refuted: the truly established existence of persons and of all phenomena.