Continuation of Instructions for Chenrezig Deity Practice  We imagine that in our own heart as Khasarpani and in the center of the stupa on the crown of our head, we have another smaller Khasarpani on the center of a thousand-petaled lotus, and in his heart as well we...

The appropriate relationships with our teachers depend on our aim, our level of development.

Review So far in our Seven Point Mind Training discussion, we’ve covered four out of the seven points. The first point focused on the preliminaries. The second point was about developing actual bodhichitta, which involves developing deepest bodhichitta and then relative...

This presentation is the basic explanation of karma of the Chittamatra, Sautrantika and Yogachara-Svatantrika Indian tenet systems, based on texts of Asanga and Vasubandhu.

A seminar on what karma actually means in terms of Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna’s presentations.

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

Shamatha emphasizes stabilizing meditation. Vipashyana emphasizes discerning meditation. A state of vipashyana is pervasive with being a state of the joined pair: stabilizing and discerning meditations.

The basis of the meditation on voidness is the identification and understanding of what is to be refuted: the truly established existence of persons and of all phenomena.

We have done the meditation on the close placement of mindfulness on the body and it might also be helpful to try the meditation of the close placement of mindfulness on the feelings in terms of the noble truth of the true origins of suffering. General View of Feelings as...

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...