Meditation

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Meditation

Objects for hindrances to cultivating serenity

The hindrances of dullness and excitement and the antidotes we can apply when these arise.

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Posture and objects for cultivating serenity

The eight-point Vairocana meditation position and what object to take as your mental object to…

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Cultivating special insight and serenity

The prerequisites to cultivate special insight and the preliminary practices condensed in the seven-limb prayer.

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The benefits of bodhicitta

How to develop bodhicitta with the equalizing and exchanging self and others method.

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Prerequisites for serenity

What is needed to meditate on serenity and insight? Both are needed equally to attain…

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Conventional and ultimate bodhicitta

An in-depth discussion of the two types of bodhicitta: conventional and ultimate.

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Developing great compassion

Review steps preceding the cultivation of compassion and specific instruction on how to cultivate compassion.

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Developing equanimity

How to meditate on equanimity as the prelude to developing loving kindness and compassion.

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Compassion

The three causes of omniscience: compassion, bodhicitta, and skillful means.

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Hearing, thinking, and meditating

Teaching on a text that was written in response to a debate in Tibet in…

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness of phenomena

Teaching on the last of the five hindrances and the seven awakening factors.

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