Meditation
azw3 |eng | 2009-12-10 | Author:Kathleen McDonald & Lama Zopa Rinpoche

To do this practice, imagine the following: First imagine that the four elements that form your own body absorb into the four external elements of earth, water, fire, and air. ...
( Category: Death January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-03-27 | Author:Shrobe, Richard [Shrobe, Richard]

Notes 1 . See Seung Sahn, trans., The Blue Cliff Record (Cumberland, RI: Kwan Um School of Zen, 1983), 37. 2 Seung Sahn, The Whole World Is a Single Flower ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-06-10 | Author:Robina Courtin & Lama Thubten Yeshe & Ailsa Cameron

In the beginning you must meditate on the channels and chakras as described above until you become thoroughly familiar with them. TRAINING IN THE CHANNELS Another meditation we should do ...
( Category: Mysticism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1998-07-25 | Author:Alexander Berzin

We begin the first phase of this exercise by thinking of someone who recently upset us, for instance the relative used in the last three exercises. First, we picture our ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn & Richard Davidson & Jon Kabat-Zinn Phd & Richard Davidson Phd

Interlude Preceding Session 4 Between the morning and midafternoon sessions, HH Dalai Lama visited the president of the United States at the White House. In this interlude, moderated by Richard ...
( Category: Happiness Self-Help January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:

It commands the masterful ability to clearly distinguish the essential features of each and every worldly phenomenon, the wisdom of discernment, in essence Amitābha. This pacifies ordinary desire. Carrying out ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-12-15 | Author:Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

How to Follow the Teaching Often Western people are a bit strange and think the teaching is like something to take or to steal. As I have already said, they ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1994-01-18 | Author:Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

The study of emptiness in the sutras is the study of the Prajiidpdramitd. In the vajrayana or tantra teachings the realization of emptiness is accomplished by looking at mind itself. ...
( Category: Eastern January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-06-01 | Author:Thubten Yeshe & Robina Courtin & Geshe Lhundub Sopa

MEDITATION 3 CLARITY AND DIVINE PRIDE This time, I want you to actualize clarity and divine pride. Remember that clarity is an antidote to our ordinary vision, to mundane thoughts, ...
( Category: Mysticism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Rinpoche, Ve n. Khenpo Karthar [Rinpoche, Ve n. Khenpo Karthar]

Questions: Q: Is loving-kindness just an attitude? A: Yes, it is basically an attitude. If we have a kind and gentle attitude, that will bring about a very healthy and ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1976-05-25 | Author:Longchenpa & Herbert V. Guenther

The ideas within are like an enchanting apparition. Since all this has come about under certain conditions, and since it is untrue and deceptive, and Since it is merely a ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-08-29 | Author:Pema Chodron

Compassionate Abiding WHEN SOMETHING we find unpleasant occurs, our conditioning automatically clicks in and we have a strong reaction. There is a practice we can do right then to help ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-04-10 | Author:The Dalai Lama & Dakpo Tashi Namgyal & Lobsang Lhalungpa & Lhalungpa, Lobsang P. [Lhalungpa, Lobsang P.]

Here I have simply shown the appropriate synchronization of appearance and mind. However, it is said that perfect synchronization can be achieved only at the meditational stage of the great ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Tulku Rinpoche Urgyen

From this Dzogchen perspective, shamatha is the unchanging quality of innate steadiness, while the natural sense of being awake is the vipashyana aspect. Neither of these is produced or fabricated ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1992-09-25 | Author:Gen Lamrimpa & Hart Sprager & B. Alan Wallace

Q: Could you elaborate a little bit about distractions "punching holes in your meditation"? You hear a sound and that takes your mind away from the object. If a thought ...
( Category: Mysticism January 22,2015 )