Reminders before Trying Mahamudra Meditation on the Conventional Nature of the Mind  We were talking about these mental factors or subsidiary awarenesses that are very much involved in any meditation practice – alertness, mindfulness, attention, concentration – and we saw...

Our relationship with our teacher needs to be based on a firm conviction in our teacher’s good qualities.

Tsongkhapa explains the factors required for effective meditation in both sutra and tantra practice and how both practices are necessary for cognizing voidness (emptiness) with a joined state of shamatha and vipashyana.