Meditation

Listening to teachings on our precious human life and then thinking about them in order to recognize and appreciate what we have precedes stabilizing and discerning meditation on it.

A guideline to the basic approaches, skills, procedures and orders of the practices that will lead to our progress.

Buddhist methods for developing compassion, the beneficial state of mind wishing for others to be free of their suffering.

Dzogchen explains the Buddhist path from the point of view of its final steps and resultant state. Learn the unique features of this system of meditation on the nature of the mind and how they contrast with those of mahamudra, Chan (Zen), anuttarayoga tantra and vipassana.

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.

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

Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey explains the Fourth Panchen Lama’s text that forms the basis for the Gelug/Kagyu tradition of mahamudra meditation on the nature of the mind.

Extend your love for all others to be happy, to overcome feeling isolated and alone.

Tsongkhapa explains the factors required for effective meditation in both sutra and tantra practice and how both practices are necessary for cognizing voidness (emptiness) with a joined state of shamatha and vipashyana.