Meditation

Brief Review Of the six far-reaching attitudes, generosity and so forth, we began discussing the sixth one, the far-reaching attitude of discriminating awareness. Prior to that were the verses concerning a combined state of a stilled and settled mind and an exceptionally...

Analyzing Voidness with Examples from Daily Life  There was a very loud buzzing sound, and I thought that it was the fluorescent light, but then Andrey turned off the water cooler over there, and the sound was no longer being produced. Now, we have an interesting...

The Fourth Noble Truth — True Pathway Minds The fourth close placement of mindfulness is on phenomena in terms of the four aspects of the fourth noble truth. “Phenomena” in this context refers to the mental factors and specifically the factor of discriminating awareness....

To deal with difficult experiences that arise in meditation and in retreat and to eliminate them, we need to know the causes of the problems.

Work on shortcomings and potentials, to avoid depression at your life going nowhere.

Imagine suffering like others are, to develop compassion for them to be free.

Apply the four noble truths, to resolve your problems relating to someone.

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

Shamatha emphasizes stabilizing meditation. Vipashyana emphasizes discerning meditation. A state of vipashyana is pervasive with being a state of the joined pair: stabilizing and discerning meditations.

Kriya tantra (ritual tantra) is found in the Nyingma and Sarma classification schemes. It’s a practice with deity visualization that emphasizes cleanliness, vegetarianism and purification.