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Meditation
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The Seven-Limb Prayer in Guru-Yoga
Introduction to the Seven-Part Practice We need to realize that guru-yoga, a type of meditation practice, is one of the preliminaries. It’s a ngondro (sngon-’gro) practice. Ngondro means preliminary practices, and there are special preliminary practices that are shared in...
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Theory and Practice of Guru-Yoga
Karma Kagyu Mahamudra: Shamatha and Vipashyana
Review We've spoke about how on any spiritual journey, like going on a caravan, we need to make preparation for the various things that we’re going to bring with us on our journey. And so what’s usually referred to as the preliminary practices are the preparation – it’s the...
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Commentary on “Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Ignorance” – Dr. Berzin
Obstacles Preventing Positive Connections with Others
Review In our first session, we had a basic introduction to the topic. We saw that when we speak about refuge in Buddhism, we are not speaking about some passive act of turning to some higher power to protect us, but rather, we are taking certain measures to prevent our own...
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Refuge: Putting a Safe Direction & Meaning in Our Lives
Exercises Focusing the Mental Factors on Ourselves and Others
Background We are continuing our discussion of how to adjust our mental factors within the context of developing balanced sensitivity. His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaks of the different aspects of Buddhism, and he differentiates Buddhist science from Buddhist religion and...
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Working with Mental Factors in Daily Life
The Aggregate of Forms
The Aggregates Only Include Nonstatic Phenomena As mentioned, the five aggregates are a convenient scheme to help us organize and understand our experience. Each aggregate is a collection of various similar factors that make up each moment of our experience, and they include...
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Meditations for Recognizing the Five Aggregates
A Proper Seat, Prostration and Sitting Posture
The third preparatory practice is to arrange a proper seat, sit in the eightfold posture, and in a positive frame of mind take safe direction, or refuge, and reaffirm our bodhichitta aim. Arranging a Proper Seat According to the text, it is best (if you can do it) to have...
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The Six Preparatory Practices before Meditation
Developing Mirror-Like Buddha Wisdom
We have been discussing the five types of deep awareness in relationship with the five skandhas or aggregate factors that make up our experience and the five types of disturbing emotions. There are many other systems with which we can correlate this structure of the five types...
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Meditations for Recognizing the Five Buddha Wisdoms
Integrating Our Life: Inspiration & Focus on Our Mothers
Finding Inspiration We have looked at the framework from which these teachings about integrating our life derive, and there are just a few more points I want to add before I open it up for questions. This is concerning the term “inspiration.” We have the Sanskrit word...
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Exercises for Integrating the Aspects of Our Life
The Fifth Dalai Lama’s Guidelines for Guru-Yoga
Review of the Qualities of a Spiritual Teacher A guru is a great teacher, a great spiritual master or mentor, someone who is not only able to teach from knowledge of the texts but is also able to teach us by his or her own example. A living example of what Buddha has taught, a...
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Theory and Practice of Guru-Yoga
Mahamudra: Meditation on Mental Activity
Shamatha and Vipashyana All these points we have been discussing are relevant for understanding mahamudra meditation. Mahamudra meditation has two basic stages: the practices for attaining shamatha and the practices for attaining vipashyana. Shamatha is a serenely stilled...
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Mahamudra and the Four Noble Truths
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