Deity Meditation
Teachings from annual weeklong and three-month deity meditation retreats.
All Posts in Deity Meditation
Venerable Thubten Chodron Amitabha practice: Mantra recitation and visualization
Explanation of the visualization and purification during the mantra recitation. Continuation of the disadvantages of…
View Post Amitabha practice: Aspiration prayer
Explanation of the aspiration section of the Amitabha practice. Making kindness our default mode in…
View Post Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death, part 1
An explanation of the prayer for the time of death. Through practice and familiarity with…
View Post Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death, part 2
Continued explanation of the prayer for the time of death from the Amitabha sadhana. Meditating…
View Post Refuge and the five lay precepts
Using the analogy of the Three Jewels as doctor, medicine and nurses for taking refuge.…
View Post
How arrogance plays out in our lives
The first verse of the First Dalai Lama's poem on the "Eight Dangers."
View Post
Types of arrogance and ignorance
Seven types of arrogance, and the second of the eight dangers, the elephant of ignorance.
View Post
Jealousy: Its definition and antidotes
How jealousy can relate to our view of oppression and the antidotes to overcoming jealousy.
View Post
Love, compassion, and bodhicitta
Cultivating equanimity as the basis for genuine love, compassion, and bodhicitta.
View Post
The robbers of wrong views
How wrong views about the law of karma and the nature of reality create create…
View Post
Obstacles to generosity
The "shackles of miserliness" and the "flood of attachment" that we seek Tara's protection from.
View Post