Worship & Devotion
azw3, epub |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:Brown Ph.D., Daniel & Robert Thurman

TABLE 18: A COMPARISON OF SŪTRA AND MAHĀMUDRĀ STAGES OF CONCENTRATION 6. SPECIAL INSIGHT THROUGHOUT THE STAGES of concentration, the practitioner has gained considerable insight into the workings of the ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:Padmasambhava

5 The Natural Liberation of Awareness: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Meditative Stabilization In the third general topic, the transitional process of meditative stabilization—called the “natural liberation of ...
( Category: Sacred Writings January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Trizin, Sakya [Trizin, Sakya]

Creation of enlightenment mind The second part of the preliminary section of the teaching involves switching from the lower path to the higher path by generating enlightenment mind. Buddhists believe ...
( Category: Sacred Writings January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-12-10 | Author:Kathleen McDonald & Robina Courtin

2. Recall that all things are impermanent. By their nature they change from moment to moment and will inevitably perish. The object of your attachment will not always be attractive ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Rinpoche, Sogyal [Rinpoche, Sogyal]

July 5 In horror of death, I took to the mountains— Again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, Capturing the fortress of the deathless ...
( Category: Meditations January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Ascertaining the Entailment of Emptiness If the I is inherently established, it must be established as either the same entity as or a different entity from the mental and physical ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:His Holiness The Dalai Lama & Jeffrey Ph.d. Hopkins

AFFLICTIVE EMOTIONS ARE BASED ON A MISTAKE Impure states of mind such as desire and hatred are not part of the basic nature of the mind, and must be produced ...
( Category: Inspirational January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2002-01-08 | Author:The Dalai Lama His Holiness & Jeffrey Hopkins Ph.d. & Jeffrey Hopkins

PRACTICALINTENTION TOBECOMEENLIGHTENED When your aspiration to become enlightened is firm, you should implement it in deeds. These are called Bodhisattva deeds, and principal among them are the six perfections: 1.Giving ...
( Category: Inspirational January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-12-05 | Author:His Holiness The Dalai Lama & Jeffrey Ph.d. Hopkins

Sometimes the “I” will seem to exist in the context of the body. Sometimes it will seem to exist in the context of the mind. Sometimes it will seem to ...
( Category: Inspirational 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 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-10-10 | Author:Ailsa Cameron & Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Josh Bartok

This is how you integrate work and meditation so that work itself becomes meditation. Do your work with the good heart. WHETHER YOU WORK in a Dharma center, at home, ...
( Category: Inspirational January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:Thupten Jinpa Ph.d.

This training is the great counterbalance to happiness, and the great successor to misery; it is a charm that attracts misfortune, and a wish capping the useless ones.126 These are ...
( Category: Meditations January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Karma Chagme

- The emptiness of the mind is not a mere vacuity, or nothingness. Rather, while it is empty, it manifests as the embodiments and primordial wisdoms of a Buddha. It ...
( Category: Karma January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-14 | Author:Jonathan Landaw & Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche

The Fully Renounced Mind If all the main points of the Dharma were reduced to their essentials, they could be grouped into three categories commonly called the three principal aspects ...
( Category: Meditations January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-04-16 | Author:The Dalai Lama & Thupten Jinpa

In one of the writings of the Fifth Dalai Lama, there is actually some criticism of having these hosts of different figures in Lama Chopa. But I think there is ...
( Category: Karma January 22,2015 )