Meditation

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.

Instructions for following the guided meditations.

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.

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

Learn how to balance the intellectual, the emotional and the devotional approach we have toward the Dharma.

Our meditation practice requires us to first analyze and understand the Dharma in order to integrate it into ourselves.

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.

Gungthang Rinpoche’s text warns us that before the Dharma practice of tomorrow takes place, the death of today may come sooner.

Conceptual thought has many varieties. Some are useful and some detrimental in meditation and daily life.

Shamatha (a stilled and settled state of mind) and vipashyana (an exceptionally perceptive state of mind) are levels of meditative concentration taught in all forms of Buddhism.