Meditation

Vajrasattva practice is a tantric meditation done for the purification of negative karmic potentials. On an ultimate level, Vajrasattva practice is non-conceptual meditation on voidness.

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

Rejoice at being free to work on improving yourself, to get over self-pity.

Take others’ feelings seriously, to care about how you treat them.

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

How to get started with meditation? For most people, with meditation focusing on the breath and then generating love.

Stay mindful of your breath, to calm down and become more positive.

Learn the difference between doing a shamatha meditation on compassion and a vipashyana meditation on compassion – between doing the analytical one and the stabilizing one.

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

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.