I’ve been asked to teach about the stages of the tantra path. This is an extremely intensive and difficult subject that will take a great deal of time. I would like to explain this very fully, but that would be very difficult. Thus, we will maybe cover only ten percent of the...

General Outline [The basic outline of the text is divided into three: The homage The promise to compose The actual presentation of the stages and paths of tantra. The actual presentation of the stages and paths of tantra is divided into two: The stages and paths of the three...

Progressing through the Stages The text presents the five paths and the ten stages in kriya tantra and states that, after having received the pure initiation and experienced the inartificial, unlabored type of bodhichitta attitude, with which we pledge to achieve Buddhahood...

Progressing through the Stages The text presents the five paths and the ten stages in kriya tantra and states that, after having received the pure initiation and experienced the inartificial, unlabored type of bodhichitta attitude, with which we pledge to achieve Buddhahood...

Kriya tantra (ritual tantra) is found in the Nyingma and Sarma classification schemes. It’s a practice with deity visualization that emphasizes cleanliness, vegetarianism and purification.

Kriya tantra (ritual tantra) is the first of the four tantra classes in the Sarma classification scheme and the first of the six tantra classes in the Nyingma scheme. It puts a great deal of emphasis on cleanliness, vegetarianism and purification.  Preliminaries ...

Once we have practiced for a while, trying to maintain this deep awareness of nondual profound and clear – the profound understanding of voidness and the clarity of the visualization – then we practice the four types of mental stability. Not necessarily that we practice all...

Background to the Text Today we are starting our new course on a letter that the great Tibetan master Tsongkhapa wrote to one of his friends. The actual title of the letter is A Brief Indication of the Graded Pathway Minds (or Graded Stages of the Path); but since that’s a...

Last week we began this wonderful letter that Tsongkhapa wrote to his friend and student, teacher — someone that he had a mutual teacher and student relationship with — the meditator Konchog-tsultrim, in which he explained in a very practical way how to meditate on sutra and...

Session Ten: How To Meditate We are studying this text, Letter of Practical Advice on Sutra and Tantra, which the great Tibetan master Tsongkhapa wrote to one of his disciples and friends, the meditator Konchog-tsultrim, with whom he also exchanged teachings back and forth....