Meditation practice is divided into two sections: Brief explanationDetailed explanation. Prayer to Practice Mahamudra Meditation Properly Verse 15 gives a brief explanation of mahamudra meditation practice with a prayer to be able to practice mahamudra meditation...

Mind Is Nonstatic Let’s go on to the close placement of mindfulness or mental glue now holding onto or focusing on the mind, meaning specifically primary consciousness – the five types of sense consciousness (eye, ear, nose, tongue and body consciousness) and mental...

The Fourth Noble Truth — True Pathway Minds The fourth close placement of mindfulness is on phenomena in terms of the four aspects of the fourth noble truth. “Phenomena” in this context refers to the mental factors and specifically the factor of discriminating awareness....

Review — The Emotional State for Taking Refuge In the previous session, we spoke about the importance and necessity of putting a positive direction in our life. We saw that refuge is a direction in which we protect ourselves from difficulties. We went through a whole list...

Detailed explanation of the Mahayana meditation of four close placements of mindfulness in terms of the sixteen aspects of the four noble truths.

Review True sufferings and the true origins of sufferings are the first two noble truths. These are the things that we need to rid ourselves of. There are four aspects that are associated with each of these and, to work with them in meditation, it is necessary to have a clear...

The Great Compassion of Bodhichitta When we think of the most kind and compassionate Buddha Shakyamuni, we think of his great qualities and his amazing deeds, and specifically of all the teachings he gave purely to benefit all others. Among all these teachings, when we think...

Review Let’s continue our ongoing discussion of how we stop uncontrollably recurring rebirth such that it never recurs. To stop it, we need to realize that there isn’t some impossible “me” undergoing rebirth through the twelve links of dependent arising: experiencing true...

Analyzing Voidness with Examples from Daily Life  There was a very loud buzzing sound, and I thought that it was the fluorescent light, but then Andrey turned off the water cooler over there, and the sound was no longer being produced. Now, we have an interesting...

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.