Does right livelihood mean having a noble profession? Is right action determined by intention or outcome? These teachings explore walking the eightfold path. Recorded during a 2010 class in Los Angeles. First Four ElementsDownload The Four Noble Truths are about finding a way to live without struggling with what we experience; why "struggle" … [Read more...] about Eightfold Path
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A Trackless Path II 13
Through practice you develop the ability to experience whatever arises in your life. When you have difficulty experiencing something it is often due to a problem with willingness, know-how, or capacity. The teachings from this retreat, recorded in Des Moins, NM during 2010, focus on how to increase these capabilities, the importance of intention … [Read more...] about A Trackless Path II 13
Ganges Mahamudra – class
A comprehensive commentary on Tilopa’s Mahamudra instructions to Naropa. Introduction DownloadIntroduction to text; historical context; Tilopa and Naropa; three doors to practice; Mahamudra as a way of experiencing; metaphors of space; letting experience be just as it is; meditation instruction for the next week: rest in experience of breathing, … [Read more...] about Ganges Mahamudra – class
A Trackless Path 2
How do you go deeper into body, beyond words, and rest? Once there, what's next? Recorded in Des Moines, NM, 2010. Primary Practice DownloadInstructions for primary practice; primary practice: how to come into experience as it arises right now; being in the experience, as opposed to observing experience; relationship to shamatha and … [Read more...] about A Trackless Path 2
Then and Now 6
In-depth series of teachings on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation and how practitioners in today’s world might approach traditional texts written hundreds of years ago. Spiritual Teachers (pt. 1) DownloadRecap of previous discussion on faith and belief from a perspective of how suffering is viewed in Christianity and Buddhism; students’s reports … [Read more...] about Then and Now 6
Then and Now 25
In-depth series of teachings on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation and how practitioners in today’s world might approach traditional texts written hundreds of years ago. Bodhisattva Vow, pt. 3DownloadParticipant’s experience with meditation on succumbing to despair and rejecting others; aspects of the bodhisattva vow associated with Dharmakirti; … [Read more...] about Then and Now 25