Gathering disciples and meditative stability
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience 
May 29, 2015 Part of a series of teachings on The Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience, a lamrim text by Panchen Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen, the first Panchen Lama.
- The four ways of gathering disciples and their purpose
- If the ways to gather disciples are done in a sincere way, with a proper motivation, one can really benefit others
- Developing the far-reaching practice of meditative stability
- How to create the conducive external and internal conditions to develop serenity
- Meditative posture
- Visualization of the Buddha as the object of meditation
Easy Path 52: Gathering disciples and meditative stability (download)
Venerable Thubten Chodron
Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.
