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 2011

The nine mental abidings

Showing how one progressively develops deeper and more subtle concentration to meditative stabilization.

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2011

The five faults and eight antidotes

Explanation of Maitreya's teaching on cultivating serenity through overcoming the obstacles.

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2011

Meditation and hindrances

Explanation of the meditation posture, the preliminary practices, and mandala offering. Beginning of teachings on…

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2011

Mindfulness and introspective awareness

A teaching on the three higher trainings from subtle to gross levels. Explaining the two…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2011

The eight Mahayana precepts

A discussion of the eight Mahayana precepts and what constitutes a complete transgression of each.

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Abbey statue of Samantabhadra.
Texts to Recite and Contemplate

La Reyna de las Plegarias

Una introducción, y texto completo a esta inspiradora plegaria que puede llenar de optimismo nuestra…

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Kevin kneeling in respect to Venerable Chodron.
The Eight Mahayana Precepts

The eight Mahayana precepts ceremony

There are many benefits to taking the eight Mahayana precepts, particularly on full and new…

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Woman meditating with a vague image of buddha in the background.
Meditation

Six preparatory practices for meditation

Practices to do before we sit down to meditate in order to clear and focus…

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