Meditation

Learn different Buddhist meditation techniques and all the tools you need to establish a daily meditation practice.

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2015

Calming the mind

How to focus and calm the mind: give up attachment to sense objects, overcome hindrances,…

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2015

Concentration and the six perfections

How to meditate on the breath and on the Buddha, and comments on Nagarjuna's commentary…

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Guided Meditations

Love your neighbor

A meditation on extending a sense of care and affection to people whom we find…

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Guided Meditations

Mind is the source of happiness and suffering

Creating emotional space from situations we find disturbing so as to transform our negative emotions.

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Guided Meditations

Grateful mind, happy mind

Skillful ways to transform the dissatisfied mind into one that is content and happy.

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Guided Meditations

Forgiving ourselves

Overcoming low self-esteem and self-criticism to realize our full potential.

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Mindfulness

The mindfulness craze

Clarifying how the classical Buddhist presentation of mindfulness differs from how mindfulness is taught for…

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Guided Meditations

Compassion burnout

Identifying the near enemy of compassion--the feeling of burnout that happens when the self-centered thought…

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Guided Meditations

Purification: The four opponent powers

A psychological tool for self-forgiveness and making amends for our negative actions of body, speech,…

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Heather leading meditation.
Preliminary Practices

The Vajrasattva ngondro

A student offers thoughts on completing the Vajrasattva ngondro.

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