Meditation
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Vajrasattva practice: Overview and the power of reli...
What it means to purify nonvirtue and why it's important. Overview of the Vajrasattva practice.…
View PostMore advice for beginner meditators
Helpful advice on dealing with critical thoughts, thoughts about the past or future, balancing concentration…
View PostAdvice for beginner meditators
A listing of teachings and videos for those new to Buddhist meditation.
View PostBalance in body, speech, and mind
A review of the five hindrances and sharing of Master Zhiyi's advice on cultivating balance…
View PostOvercoming hindrances to concentration
How to work with the hindrances of lethargy and sleepiness, agitation and remorse, and deluded…
View PostGetting unstuck from attachment and anger
How to work with sensual desire and malice that are hindrances to cultivating concentration.
View PostCriteria for developing serenity
Teachings from a text by Chinese Master Zhiyi on the levels of conditions we need…
View PostThe prerequisites for concentration
An overview of the causes and conditions we need to cultivate as the foundation for…
View PostOvercoming three kinds of doubt
The types of doubt and how to overcome them, and how to relate to a…
View PostObstacles to generosity
The "shackles of miserliness" and the "flood of attachment" that we seek Tara's protection from.
View PostThe robbers of wrong views
How wrong views about the law of karma and the nature of reality create create…
View PostLove, compassion, and bodhicitta
Cultivating equanimity as the basis for genuine love, compassion, and bodhicitta.
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