Mind & Meditation
Various Instructors
GESHE YESHE THABKHE
PLACEMENT MEDITATION
Placement or concentrated meditation is the foundation of all meditations. The object of focus can vary according to the practitioner’s goals. The basic obstacles to placement meditation at the beginning stage are sinking and wandering. Various mindfulness techniques can help overcome these obstacles and strengthen the ability to focus.
GESHE LOBSANG NEGI
MIND AND MENTAL FACULTIES – HOW THE MIND WORKS
This session will explore how the mind functions and why the mind is capable of developing positive mental faculties through meditation.
OCTOBER 3 – JOSEPH LOIZZO
NATURE OF MIND AND ITS ENERGY
An exploration of the basic foundations of mind and energy needed to meditate. It is also a preparation for meditating on Mahamudra and Vajrayana meditations.
VENERABLE THUBTEN CHODRON
LAM RIM ANALYTICAL MEDITATION
This talk will explain the process of meditative analysis that leads to generating insight and focusing on that insight as an experiential conclusion. It includes generating positive emotions and focusing on them. Analytical meditation on Lam Rim (Stages of the Path to Enlightenment) covers the topics from precious human life up to the six transcendental activities of a bodhisattvas.
GLENN MULLIN
ULTIMATE NATURE OF MIND MEDITATION (EMPTINESS MEDITATION)
Meditation on the emptiness of mind itself is particularly powerful because it directly contradicts the subtle grasping at self.
ROBERT A.F. THURMAN
INTRODUCTION TO VAJRAYANA MEDITATION
Vajrayana meditation is a powerful practice that uses imagery, mantras, channels and chakras to accelerate and deepen the realizations from the previous five areas of meditation covered in this course.