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Benefits of Meditation
/buddhism-and-meditation/benefits-of-meditation/Gradually, as we practice meditation, our distracting thoughts subside and we begin to feel more peaceful and relaxed. Read more
Karma
/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/choje-akong-tulku-rinpoche/karma/By Akong Tulku Rinpoche Are the doctrines of karma and reincarnation an essential part of Buddhism?The understanding of karma is part of Buddhism. Read more
The Paramita of Diligence
/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/chamgon-khentin-tai-situpa/the-paramita-of-diligence/By Khentin Tai Situ Rinpoche The three aspects of diligence arethe armour-like diligence; the diligence of working with effort, applying our knowledge to our way of life and; the diligence of never being satiated with our accumulation of the positive. Read more
The Paramita of Meditation
/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/chamgon-khentin-tai-situpa/the-paramita-of-meditation/By Khentin Tai Situ Rinpoche The first aspect of meditation is the development of an inner awareness that acquaints one with the mind as it really is, beneath its superficial layer of obscuration. Read more
Seeing for Ourselves: Ignorance and the Obscurations
/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/rob-nairn/seeing-for-ourselves/We have been observing the mind and seeing how intention is overridden; how we form an intention to focus on the meditation support and how another force then overrides it. Read more
Helping the Dead
/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/rob-nairn/helping-the-dead/I go every year to Samye Ling, the big Tibetan Buddhist centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland, which is where my teachers live. Read more
The Revolution of Tantra
/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/dharmacharya-ken-holmes/the-revolution-of-tantra/Opinions vary about how and when tantric Buddhism first appeared. Read more
Meditation Questions and Answers
/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/dharmacharya-ken-holmes/meditation-questions-and-answers/By Ken Holmes What Meditation Is a way of making the mind more awake, clear and wise a way of discerning truth from illusion a way of facing up to oneself: overcoming the problems and developing the good things a means for replacing self-centred illusions with natural compassion a limitless possibility, for which the Buddha taught hundreds of techniques sometimes difficult, but always aimed at bringing lasting benefits as a reward a lifetime's [or many lifetimes'] work What Meditation Is Not a sort of trance. Read more