Question of the Week: what’s your advice on how to meditate?
Each week we will ask a question related to Buddhism. Please share your thoughts with us by leaving a comment. We welcome your response to earlier comments, or you can post new ideas. Comments are...
View ArticleSpring Offerings
We made it through an unusally long, snowy winter and must have burned up a significant amount of our collective bad weather karma. For all of us, I hope, the winter blues have dissapeared in today’s...
View ArticlePutting the teachings into practice
…once you have received the teachings, you have to take the medicine; you have to meditate and practice. If you understand the teachings but do not put them into practice through meditation, then you...
View ArticleGyumed Khensur Rinpoche Losang Jampa: On Guru Yoga
When you sustain the conviction that the guru’s mind is in the nature of the union of great bliss and emptiness, then your mind can also be experienced as the union of great bliss and emptiness. This...
View ArticleGyumed Khensur Rinpoche Losang Jampa Path to Bliss Recordings Now Available
In February 2012, Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Losang Jampa completed his commentary on “The Path of Well-Being for Those Traveling to Omniscience: Essential Guide to the Stages of the Path to...
View ArticleBook Review: Bodhisattva Attitude by Lama Zopa
Bodhisattvas want to be used by sentient beings. That is what the bodhisattvas’ attitude is. They actually accept it. The worldly mind things that being used by others is bad, it is the worst thing,...
View ArticleGyumed Khensur Rinpoche Losang Jampa: Meditation on the Breath
During his Mahamudra commentary, Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Losang Jampa explained the 8 point Vairochana posture. The first seven points describe the physical body posture. The 8th point is the...
View ArticleGyumed Khensur Rinpoche Losang Jampa: Dissolving the Guru at Your Heart
One of the practices common to the sutrayana and tantrayana traditions is visualizing your lama dissolving at your heart. Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Losang Jampa described the feeling: “When you dissolve...
View ArticleGyumed Khensur Rinpoche Losang Jampa: How Does the Self Appear
In order to understand emptiness we need to begin by analyzing how the sense of self appears to us in daily life. Khensur Rinpoche gave a few examples of how we typically describe finding our self: as...
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