Meditation

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

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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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Grateful mind, happy mind

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

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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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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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Thangka image of Drakpa Gyaltsen.
Parting from the Four Clingings

Parting from the Four Clingings

Verses describing what to practice and what to abandon along the path to awakening.

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Guided Meditations

Why do we lie?

Reflecting on the actions and mental states that drive us to distort the truth, and…

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Beyond blame

How to move beyond blaming others and ourselves, and how an understanding of causal dependence…

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What is karma?

A meditation for the Daily Dharma Gathering on the four general characteristics of karma.

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