Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path
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This outline of the lamrim meditations is intended to be used to supplement the audio recordings on Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path. The outline can also be used on its own as a study guide. Click above to view PDF.
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There are two principal forms of meditation: The former is done to develop single-pointed concentration and the latter to develop understanding and insight. When meditating on the gradual path to enlightenment , we first do checking meditation. Here, we investigate a topic taught by the buddha A person who has purified all defilements and developed all good qualities.
We think about the topic logically and relate it to our personal experience by making examples from our life. When we have a deep feeling or strong experience of the meaning of that meditation, we focus on just that experience with stabilizing meditation , concentrating on it single-pointedly so that it becomes part of us. For an expanded explanation of how to do checking meditation and its role in our overall practice, see Transforming Adversity into Joy and Courage, by geshe A learned master comparable to a Ph.
Since most Westerners have not been raised Buddhist and have not lived in a Buddhist culture, some initial reflections on basic Buddhist approaches are helpful.
The first three meditations help us understand how our mind operates in daily life and how our mental processes—our thoughts and feelings—influence our experiences. Determine to be aware of how you interpret events and to cultivate beneficial and realistic ways of looking at them. Based on a superimposition or exaggeration of the positive qualities of a person, object, idea, etc.
Attachment differs from positive aspiration. For example, being attached to money is different from having a positive aspiration to learn the Dharma In the most general sense, Dharma refers to the teachings of the Buddha. Most specifically, it refers to the realizations of the path and the resultant cessations of suffering and its causes.
See attachment not as your friend bringing you happiness, but as a thief destroying your peace of mind. Recognizing the disadvantages of attachment helps to let go of it. Thinking of the object of your attachment, apply an antidote to attachment.
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Each of the four points below is a separate antidote. You can use an example from your life for each point.
The mind is that part of us that experiences, feels, perceives, thinks, and so forth. When we do this, our Dharma practice becomes so tasty! We don't get bored practicing. It becomes very exciting and fascinating. Chodron on the importance of lamrim "Ven. Chodron is well known for her many clear writings.
As the CD shows, she also has a clear, gentle, and calm voice, which makes the selected meditations on the Stages of the Path a delight and also very positive to listen to. If the graduated path, as the lamrim approach is also called, has proven helpful to countless generations of monastics, it is even more important to modern Western lay practitioners who are dealing with a good many more challenges and distractions. I can recommend without reservation both Ven. Yes, this wonderful page book is accompanied by a fourteen-hour MP3 CD with no less than 46 meditations!
Guided Meditations On The Stages Of The Path
How often have we heard a teacher describe the teachings of the lam-rim and gone away wondering how to put them into practice—and here is a way to actually experience them. Soon the rhythm of meditating becomes as habitual and essential as the morning cuppa. Are you working with distractions?
Dealing with mental afflictions? Distinctly possible under this gentle, kindly guidance. The questions Chodron presents throughout the book and MP3 CD are the types of questions you might want to tape to your bathroom mirror, and she provides enough of them that you could easily start your day contemplating a different question for months.
This is not the sort of book that requires a sequential reading; it is superbly organized to provide quick and easy access to any of the concepts you are currently working with, and there is plenty for those at each stage of the path.
Guided meditations on the lamrim
Even if you are not strictly a student of Tibetan Buddhism, there are enough core spiritual and ethical concepts covered in this book as to make it a worthwhile read for anyone. Find your local bookstore at booksellers. Also by Thubten Chodron. Subscribe to Read More to find out about similar books.
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The meditation teachings of lamrim (also known as the “stages of the path”) present a This audio program presents over fourteen hours of guided meditations. The lamrim (stages of the path) presentation of Buddhist teachings has become a core topic of study at many Buddhist centers in the West.