Meditation

Recommended initial and concluding procedures for each training session as well as for each exercise.

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

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.

Complete instructions on how to structure a meditation session.

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

How to build up a feeling of love and extend it to all others.

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.

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.

The five aggregates perpetuate suffering and unsatisfactory happiness, yet the state of mind that will get rid of the source of our suffering is within the five aggregates.

This commentary by Dr. Berzin explains how to conduct mahamudra meditation on the conventional and deepest natures of the mind.