What Meditation Does Meditation is a method for transforming and improving our lives. How? Well, our lives are affected by our personality and moods, which are affected by our living and economic situation, the people we spend our time with and so on. If we have any experience...

Harmony in a multireligious society comes from education about each other’s beliefs and customs and, from knowledge, comes respect.

An analysis of the pervasions among sets of ways of cognizing an object and among sets of forms of physical phenomena.

Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche’s long life prayer to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

According to the Sautrantika tenet system, there are seven ways of knowing an object. To understand the seven in more detail, we first need to know what a way of knowing (“lorig” in Tibetan) is.

The Ninth Karmapa presents a detailed, step-by-step explanation of the Karma Kagyu practice of mahamudra meditation on the nature of the 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)...

Promise to Compose The text continues, As for the methods that can lead you to know, face to face, the actual (deepest) nature of mind, I shall now set out the guideline teachings of my root guru, Sanggye Yeshe, who (as his name literally means) is (the embodiment of) the...

<span id="selection-marker-1" class="redactor-selection-marker"></span> The Essential Points concerning the Body and Mind As for the actual fundamental part, there are two (sections): a stilled and settled state of shamatha and an exceptionally perceptive state of...

Examining the Essential Nature of the Settled Mind The second (main section) is the exceptionally perceptive state of vipashyana. Have the essential points of your body posture be as before; but, in this case, as your way of gazing is extremely important, direct your eyes,...