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Obstacles
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Blocks in Opening Oneself to a Spiritual Teacher
Paranoia and Vulnerability One of the most important aspects of healthy disciple-mentor relationships is for disciples to receive inspiration from their mentors. This can only occur if they are open to their mentors' uplifting positive influence. Some disciples, however, are...
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Unhealthy Relationships with Spiritual Teachers
Other-Voidness: Clear-Light Mind or Rigpa
Review We have been speaking about self-voidness and other-voidness and, so far, we are restricting our discussion to the Gelug assertions, although Gelug does not use the terms self-voidness and other-voidness for its own assertions. Some non-Gelug masters, however, do use...
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Main Points of Self-Voidness and Other-Voidness
Right View and Intention
Discriminating awareness is to discriminate between what’s correct and incorrect, what’s helpful and harmful. For this, we have the last two of the eightfold path: right view and right intention (right motivating thought). Right view concerns what we believe to be true, based...
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A Full Buddhist Life: The Eightfold Path
Mahamudra: Meditation on Mind’s Conventional Nature
Sutra and Tantra Mahamudra There are various traditions of mahamudra: there’s the sutra tradition and the tantra tradition. The sutra traditions involve the various methods for meditating on voidness, which is the absence of all fantasized, impossible ways of existing. The...
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Commentary on “Root Text for Mahamudra” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
Dealing with Others
Verses 7 through 10 Verse 7: Ridding Ourselves of Distractions to Our Meditation Let me rid myself of all material burdens and adorn myself with an arya’s gems. So, let me rid myself of all bustling activities and live in seclusion. Living in Seclusion to Avoid Becoming...
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Commentary on “A Bodhisattva’s Garland of Gems” – Dr. Berzin
Experiences and Realizations in Mahamudra Meditation
The methods for cultivating boon experiences and stable realizations is divided into two sections: The methods for cultivating boon experiencesThe methods for cultivating stable realizations. Prayer to Cultivate Boon Experiences Properly Verse 20 is a prayer to be able to...
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Commentary on “The Mahamudra Prayer” – Beru Khyentse Rinpoche
Enhancing Mahamudra Meditation
Combining Mahamudra with Other Sutra and Tantra Practices and with the Four Types of Behavior As for the third part, the concluding material, there are also the actions for enhancing your progress. When, without meandering, you have totally immersed yourself in the mental...
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Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Ignorance
Mahamudra Meditation on the Conventional Nature of Mind
Preliminaries for Shamatha Meditation The text continues with a full discussion of the sutra tradition of mahamudra, And so for this (sutra tradition of mahamudra), out of the two methods, namely seeking a meditative state on top of having gained a correct view (of voidness)...
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Commentary on “A Root Text for Mahamudra” – The Dalai Lama
Generational Issues in the Student-Teacher Relationship
Stages in the Contemporary Life Cycle In New Passages, Sheehy explained that the stages of the human life cycle vary according to socioeconomic class and the conditions of the times. Using this thesis, she discovered a new paradigm for the adult life cycle of contemporary,...
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Unhealthy Relationships with Spiritual Teachers
Uttaratantra: Last Two Causes That Purify Buddha-Nature
Questions about the Clear Light Mind If the clear light mind is not influenced by causes and circumstances and it's not independently existing, then by what is it influenced? When we speak of clear light mind as being an unaffected or unconditioned phenomenon, we need to...
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Commentary on “Uttaratantra” – The Dalai Lama
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