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. So now we have an interesting inference. For...

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. The...

A commentary by Serkong Rinpoche focusing on mahamudra as a meditation on the mind’s void nature.

The Dalai Lama’s deep, line-by-line explanation of this root text for mahamudra meditation reveals its subtler points.

Buddha-family traits are factors that everybody has, which, when fully developed, enable everyone to become a Buddha. In this sense, we all belong to this one family.

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.

Dzogchen meditation emphasizes non-conceptuality, but to recognize and rest in such a state, we first need to understand the various levels of mental activity and what conceptualization means.

An explanation of the terse and profound verses of the Third Karmapa’s “Mahamudra Prayer.”

In an age of addiction to constant distractions, focusing on the breath and quieting down our thoughts would be a good start before engaging in the preparatory practices.