Deity Meditation

Teachings from annual weeklong and three-month deity meditation retreats.

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Face of a sculpture of Tara.
Green Tara

Green Tara sadhana with the Eight Dangers

An alternate text of the Green Tara sadhana including the Protection from the Eight Dangers…

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Manjushri

Meeting Manjushri

Commentary on the Homage to Manjushri. How considering the qualities of wisdom can inspire our…

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015

The rarity of retreat

Appreciating the rarity and preciousness of having interest and opportunity to do retreat, and dropping…

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015

What is retreat?

The meaning of retreat is not finding the perfect external environment, but retreating from the…

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015

The motivation for doing retreat

The importance of setting a Dharma motivation to help us cultivate joyous effort and use…

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015

Entering Manjushri retreat

Teachings on the Manjushri practice and a question and answer session with the one-month Manjushri…

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015

Cultivating wisdom

Advice on how to cultivate wisdom to counteract our wrong views while on retreat.

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015

How to practice between sessions

Seeing our afflictions as mere mind moments that have a similar "flavor" to which we…

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015

What is dhih?

An explanation of the meaning and purpose of the seed syllables. What to contemplate as…

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015

The four maras

Explaining the four maras that Yamantaka destroys: the afflictions, polluted aggregates, death, and the son…

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015

Our two-year-old mind

How to work with the self-centered mind that creeps up on us in the middle…

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