An overview of the terminology concerning different levels and types of concentration.

Conceptual Cognition Furthermore, a conceptual cognition is a conceptually implying awareness that cognizes an audio (category) or meaning/object (category) as suitable to be associated (with each other). An audio category (sgra-spyi) is the category of the sound of a...

Questions and Answers Now we have time for questions, hopefully in regard to our discussion so far in terms of the aggregate of consciousness and the aggregate of forms of physical phenomena. Object Categories and Audio Categories Thank you for a very good lecture and...

A summary report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages, University of Hamburg, 18-20 July 2007.

One night, without distraction, I dreamed a vivid dream: I saw a large and beautiful drum filling the world with golden light and glowing like the sun. Beaming brightly to all places, it was seen from ten directions. Everywhere buddhas were seated on thrones of precious lapis...

Disturbing Emotions Are the Enemy Now for verse three of the Eight Verses of Mind Training: (3) Whatever I am doing, may I check the flow of my mind, and the moment that conceptions or disturbing emotions arise, since they debilitate myself and others, may I confront and...

The Motivation for Working with the Five Aggregates We began our discussion by exploring why we want to learn about the five aggregates that make up each moment of our experience. What is their importance?  It’s a very standard approach in Buddhism to first examine the...

The aggregate of karmic formations (Skt. samskaraskandha) contains two types of affecting variables.

Think before acting or speaking compulsively, to prevent later feeling regret.

Constructive Karmic Impulses A constructive karmic impulse is to refrain from doing, saying or thinking something destructive. Just as there are ten destructive actions specified as broad categories, likewise there are ten constructive ones, divided into three of body, four of...