Teachings that Milarepa gave on nonattachment to children, friends, relatives and wealth.

Verses 8 through 37 Reaffirming Our Motivation and Review Look at all the people around you, whether they are close or distant, rich or poor, all of us are equal in wanting happiness and no suffering. The best way to accomplish this is the practice of Dharma. We have fully...

Verses 1 through 7 Taking Advantage of Being in a Holy Place As I explained yesterday, we are at a special place here where the Buddha manifested his enlightenment and where many enlightened beings have been. Nagarjuna and his two spiritual sons, for instance, and many...

A look at how we can train our own attitudes to radically transform the way in which we experience the good, the bad, and the really ugly parts of life.

A presentation of the Karma Kagyu explanation of how the mind works according to sutra.

All four noble truths are about what we do with our minds therefore most of the work that we do in the Dharma is basically with how our minds work.

Mind We’ve seen the general application and relevance of this topic, ways of knowing. There are additional general things that we also need to understand in order to be able to go further into the individual seven ways of knowing. The first of these is to understand what we...

The Five Aggregates So, now the Mahayana practice of the four close placements of mindfulness. The way that I’ll present this is the way that His Holiness the Dalai Lama explains it, based on various Tibetan commentaries to the Indian Prajnaparamita literature, which is where...

How We Pay Attention and How We Respond Reaction versus Response To develop balanced sensitivity and avoid the two extremes of insensitivity or oversensitivity, we have discussed the need to work on two factors: how we pay attention and how we respond. There is a difference...

Mindfulness practice becomes the most effective when it includes the full array of mental factors explained in the traditional Buddhist presentations of it.