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Activating Bodhichitta and a Meditation on Compassion
By: Dalai Lama XIV
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There is no more powerful mind than bodhicitta. There is no more joyous mind than bodhicitta. For the accomplishment of one's own ultimate purpose, the awakening mind is supreme, and to accomplish the purpose of all other living beings there is nothing superior to bodhicitta. The awakening mind is the unsurpassable way to collect merit. To purify obstacles bodhicitta is supreme. For protection from interferences bodhicitta is supreme. It is the unique, all-encompassing method. Every kind of ordinary and supra-mundane power can be accomplished through bodhicitta. Thus, it is absolutely precious.
Even though we personally may find difficulty in immediate and thorough generation of such a mind, we should at least direct our thoughts towards it. To train our mind in such an ultimately altruistic manner from the very beginning of our practice of Dharma is vitally important.
A MEDITATION ON COMPASSION
The Inseparability of the Spiritual Master and Avalokitdhvara: A Source of all Powerful Attainments"
All beings wish to be happy and free from misery. Although scientific development, modern weapons and abundant material progress may alleviate the temporary effects of dissatisfaction, such external means can never totally eradicate its fundamental cause. The true solution is to cultivate deep human compassion, love and respect for others. By cultivating such altruistic and beneficial attributes, the cause of suffering, self-cherishing, will gradually diminish. This, in turn, will promote unity and harmony among human beings of all nations.
Although compassion is cultivated in one's own mind, the embodiment of it is the deity known as Avalokiteshvara (Tib. Chan-ra-zig). The various aspects that are visualized in meditation practices and represented in images and paintings are merely the interpretative forms of Avalokitephvara, whereas the actual definitive form is compassion itself.
"The Inseparability of the Spiritual Master and Avalokitdhvara: a Source of all Powerful Attainments" sadhana was composed by the XIV Dalai Lama when he was nineteen years of age and was first printed in Tibet in the Wood-Horse year (1954).
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Art of Meditation; the Breath
By: Vessantara
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Aryasura’s Aspiration and Meditation on Compassion
By: Aryasura
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The first work is a translation of an ancient Sanskrit prayer, no longer extant in that language, composed in the Ist century A. D. by one of the most renowned Mahayana Indian poet, Aryashura. It is supplemented by a rare commentary by the second Dalai Lama, Gendun Gyatso. The second section by His Holiness the present Dalai Lama includes a reprint of "The Inseparability of the Spiritual Master and Avalokitesheara" and a translation of an inspiring discourse on the generation of compassion and bodhicitta-the essential practices of Mahayana Buddhism.
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Attention Revolution, Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind
By: Allan Wallace
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Meditation offers, in addition to its many other benefits, a method for achieving previously inconceivable levels of concentration. Author B. Alan Wallace has nearly thirty years' practice in attention-enhancing meditation, including a retreat he performed under the guidance of the Dalai Lama. An active participant in the much-publicized dialogues between Buddhists and scientists, Alan is uniquely qualified to speak intelligently to both camps, and The Attention Revolution is the definitive presentation of his knowledge.
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Awakening the Mind: Basic Buddhist Meditations
By: Wangchen, Namgyal Geshe
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-Awakening the Mind is an introduction to profound meditation methods that for millennia have helped people transcend their deepest problems. Based on the teachings of the great Tibetan saint Tsong Khapa, the techniques explained here by Geshe Wangchen counteract depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and all other forms of mental suffering. These methods for cultivating inner peace and wisdom show us how to awaken our mind to its fullest potential.
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Baby Buddhas, A Guide for Teaching Meditation to Children
By: Lisa Desmond
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Balancing the Mind, A Tibetan Approach to Refining Attention
By: Allan Wallace
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For centuries Tibetan Buddhist contemplatives have directly explored consciousness through carefully honed rigorous techniques of meditation. B. Allan Wallace explains the methods and experiences of Tibetan practitioners and compares these with investigations of consciousness by Western scientists and philosophers. Balancing the Mind includes a translation of the classic discussion by fifeenth-century Tibetan contemplative Tsongkhapa of methods for developing exceptionally high degrees of attentional stability and clarity.
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Bardo Guidebook
By: Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
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Drawing from his infinite knowledge of the innermost Vajrayana teachings, the Tibetan master Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche presents in The Bardo Guidebook straightforward, direct instructions on how to deal with the four bardos.
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Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation
By: Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith
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Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith combine clear explanations of the Buddha's teachings on freedom and happiness with their personal stories highlighting some of the challenges and insights of practice. The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation offers advice about going on retreat and help in choosing a teacher and a sangha (practice community), as well as suggestions for further reading and information on various Insight Meditation or Vipassana centers and resources. Here is an enormously practical book that covers every aspect of the teachings a beginner needs to get started.
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Beginning Mindfulness; Learning the Way of Awareness
By: Weiss, Andrew
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Knowing that most people do not stop their lives to engage in spiritual practice, Buddhist teacher Andrew Weiss has always taught the direct application of practice to daily life. While also teaching sitting and walking meditation, he emphasizes mindfulness -- the practice of seeing every action as an opportunity to awaken meditative inquiry. Over the years, Andrew has honed his teachings into an effective ten-week course with progressive steps and home-play assignments.
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Bridge of Quiescence
By: Wallace, B. Allen
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For centuries, Tibetan Buddhist contemplatives have directly explored consciousness through carefully honed, rigorous techniques of meditation.
Professor Wallace explains the methods and experiences of those Tibetan practitioners and compares these with investigations of consciousness by Western scientists and philosophers. "
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Buddha, The Body, and The Reason Why, Why Meditate?
By: Robert Leshin & Joanna Falco
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In a worldwide journey that ended in India, Robert Leshin began his study of the Buddha's teachings. Though his use of Vipassana meditation, Leshin learned the secrets to the body's inner language. Giving examples drawn from his own life experiences, he offers the reader an opportunity for inner peace that begins with his approach to self-awareness. He calls it "Body Talk".
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Buddhist Meditation
By: Edward Conze
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Meditational practices constitute the very core of Buddhist approach to life, meditation is the heartbeat of the religion. The ultimate aim of Buddhist meditation is Enlightenment, or the state of Nirvana. The Nirvana leads to detachment of soul from the body, making it imperceptible to worldly pains and pleasures, and bringing in a sense of selflessness.
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Buddhist Meditation An Anthology of Texts from the Pali Canon
By: Sarah Shaw
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Meditative practice lies at the heart of the Buddhist tradition. This introductory anthology gives a representative sample of the various kinds of meditations described in the earliest body of Buddhist scripture, the Pali canon. It provides a broad introduction to their traditional context and practice and supplies explanation, context and doctrinal background to the subject of meditation. The main themes of the book are the diversity and flexibility of the way that the Buddha teaches meditation from the evidence of the canon. Covering fundamental features of Buddhist practice such as posture, lay meditation, and meditative technique and providing comments both from the principal early commentators on Buddhist practice, Upatissa and Buddhaghosa, and from reputable modern meditation teachers in a number of Theravadin traditions, this is the first book on Pali Buddhism which introduces the reader to the wide range of the canon. It should be of interest to students and scholars of Buddhism as well as Buddhist practitioners.
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Calm and Clear
By: Lama Mipham, Tarthang Tulku
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In search for the nature of reality, "The Wheel of Analytic Meditation" employs a traditional Buddhist analysis of the body and mind to dissolve conditioned concepts and unexamined assumptions which inhibit deep understanding. "Instructions on Vision in the Middle Way" is a continuation text which is intended to lead the serious student step-by-step in the practice of meditation.
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Chandrakirti's Sevenfold Reasoning: Meditation on the Selflessness of Persons
By: Chandrakirti, Wilson, Joe
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Meditation on the Selflessness of Persons
This explanation of Chandrakirti's presentation of the Sevenfold Reasoning is based on that found in the-Clear Exposition of the Presentation of Tenets, a Beautiful Ornament for the Meru of the Subduer's Teaching composed by Jang-kya. In this small volume, Joe Wilson includes an explanation of the context of the Sevenfold Reasoning in Buddhist philosophy as a whole.
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Cultivating a Daily Meditation
By: Dalai Lama XIV
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During April 1985 and then again in October 1986 His Holiness the Dalai Lama delivered a series of discourses-on Buddhist view meditation and action. The discourses and ensuing discussions were recorded at the time, and later prepared into an edited text of the encounter the result of which is this book. In his discourses His Holiness touches upon all the essential points of the Buddhadharma, and provides a clear and simple method to cultivate a daily practice of meditation.
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Dawning of Clear Light: A Western Approach to Tibetan Dark Retreat Meditation
By: Lowenthal, Martin
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Retreats in darkness have been used by all the great spiritual traditions for thousands of years as a method for tapping deep clarity, accessing sacred wisdom, connecting with the Divine, and training to transform the mind/body system into a manifestation of wisdom. In dark retreat, the practitioner lives in complete darkness - eating, sleeping, meditating, and simply existing in a world without external light.
Traditionally, in Tibet, dark retreats were performed by monks as part of their training with the support of their monastery and their fellow monks.
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Diamond Mind: The Psychology of Meditation
By: Nairn, Rob
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If meditation were easier, Rob Nairn writes, more people would hang in there and become enlightened. Rob's training in both Buddhism and psychology make especially well qualified to help us to do that. With clarity and humor, he helps us understand how we generate the clouds of anxiety, desire, and anger that obscure our inherent happiness.
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Dzog Chen Meditation
By: Khamtrul Rinpoche
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The present book is an English translation of rdor sems thugs kyi sgrub pa'i khrid yig rab gsal snang wa. This is an explanation of the complete rdzogs chen meditation practice: being Lo chen Dharma - sri's guide through a Gter bdag gling pa treasure text, a text first taught by the second Buddha Padmasambhava to his inner circle of thirty extraordinary women with wisdom.
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Essence of Ambrosia, A Guide to Buddhist Contemplations
By: Taranatha, Willa Baker tr.
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Essence of Ambrosia is a guide to Buddhist meditation, composed by the prolific and eclectic Tibetan scholar and practitioner Taranatha (1575-1634). Following the lead of Atisha, Taranatha expounds a graduated approach (known as lam rim) to cognitive and meditative development designed to address the needs of three types of person: the person of lesser, average and greater capacity.
Taranatha's innovative contribution to this genre is to instruct the student in "contemplation sessions", that specifically guide a beginning Buddhist practitioner through the traditional practices of meditation, beginning with devotional reflection up to the apex of Buddhist meditation, insight (vipassana) meditation. The result is a remarkably accessible and concise insider's guide to the Mahayana Buddhist path.
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Essential Practice
By: Thrangu Rinpoche
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The great Indian master Kamalashila's 'Stages of Meditation in the Middle Way School' opens the door of philosophy and practice to meditators at all levels. With brevity, it covers all the main topics one needs to know from developing compassion, through numerous methods of meditation, to the ultimate realization of full awakening.
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Experience of Insight, A Simple & Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
By: Joseph Goldstein
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Here is a modern classic of unusually clear, practical instruction for the practice of Buddhist meditation, how one relates with the breath, feelings, thoughts, sense perceptions, consciousness, and everyday activities. Basic Buddhist topics such as the nature of karma, the four noble truths, the factors of enlightenment, dependent origination, and devotion are discussed.
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Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration and Meditation
By: Levey, Joel & Michelle
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Ancient Skills for Modern Minds
"The Fine Arts" is a skillful blend of time-proven antidotes to the stress of modern life. In this book, Joe and Mich'l Levey condense four decades of self-mastery. They lead the student from simple self regulation of stress responses to the heights of self knowledge, spiritual and transpersonal awareness.
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Focused and Fearless: A Meditator's Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity
By: Catherine Shaila
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Now ordinary meditators (and non-meditators) can understand how to attain non-ordinary states with relative ease. Blended with contemporary examples, pragmatic exercises, and "how to" instructions that anyone can try, Focused and Fearless provides a wealth of tools to cultivate non-distracted attention in daily life and on retreat. Shaila Catherine has a friendly, wise approach to rarely-talked-about meditative states that lead to liberating insight.
Focused and Fearless is about much more than merely meditation or concentration. It offers a complete path towards bliss, fearlessness, and true awakening.
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Foundation of Buddhist Meditation
By: Kalu Rinpoche
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In this book (reprinted from a pamphlet), the four teachings which motivate religious practice and the attributes of the Three Jewels are explianed. If one completely understands the significance of all these things, one will turn away from the cycle of existence and strive to practice freedom, will believe in action and results (karma) and will either obtain Buddhahood in this life or will become free of this cycle, etc. Moreover when many positive qualities are cultivated, one will consolidate a basis for the holy Dharma. So, please, don't just penetrate the significance of all three things, but, in addition, strive at Dharma practice." ~Kalu Rinpoche, from the Introduction
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Four Foundations of Mindfulness
By: Silananda, U
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Practitioners of other meditation forms such as dzogchen, mahamudra and zazen will find that this work on the oldest form of Buddhist meditation provides new insight into their own practices. The general reader will benefit from its clear language and constant reminders of how each day presents us with opportunities to learn at every moment.
Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Venerable U Silananda, Wisdom Publications, 232 pages $14.
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Gesture of Balance
By: Tarthang Tulku
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Since its publication in 1977, Gesture of Balance has become one of the most widely-read books on meditation available today. In clear, direct language it relates the profound insights of an ancient wisdom tradition to our present situation, showing us how to develop our inner resources and awaken body, mind, and senses to new horizons of experience.
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Guide to Shamata Meditation
By: Thrangu Rinpoche
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This book is a teaching given by Thrangu Rinpoche on how to practice shamata and insight meditation. Since Rinpoche is from Kagyu lineage of Buddhism, he presents meditation from the Vajrayana perspective. This style of meditation is extremely effective and has produced thousands of enlightened individuals over the centuries.
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Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path
By: Thubten Chodron
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The meditation teachings of lamrim, says Buddhist teacher Thubten Chodron, are like ready-made clothes that are easy to wear--they're systematized so that we can "wear" them right away, so we can learn and practice them in an organized fashion.
These systematic teachings are the subject of this book and the accompanying CD. The lamrim presents a step-by-step method to tame the mind.
The first section of Guided Meditations discusses how to establish a daily practice; how to set up an altar, and how to approach the two kinds of meditation--stabilizing and analytical. The second presents the meditations. The third supplies an overview, instructions for working with distractions, antidotes to mental afflictions, advice for newcomers, and suggestions on how to deepen Dharma practice.
The accompanying mp3 CD contains over 15 hours of guided meditations. Individuals who live far from Buddhist teachers or Dharma centers will appreciate the personal guidance offered with these meditations, enabling them to begin and continue a daily meditation practice.
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Heart of Buddhist Meditation
By: Thera, Nyanaponika
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he Heart of Buddhist Meditation is a work of unique importance in the literature about meditation. It is written with great depth, extraordinary knowledge, deep humanity, and in a style that is simple and direct. [...] Although written from the Buddhist thinking, it is of equal value to the non-buddhist reader.
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Heart of Mindfulness
By: Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
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[...] Teachings on Shamata Meditation
In the sutras, the Buddha explained that in taming the mind we must bring ourselves to a place of solitude. or to a situation of solitude. This does not necessarily mean going to some deserted place in the wilderness. Solitude, in this sense, is more like security. [...]
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How to Meditate
By: McDonald, Kathleen
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What is meditation? Why practice it? Which technique is best for me? How do I do it? The answers to these often asked questions are contained in this down to earth book compiled and written by Kathleen McDonald, a Western Buddhist nun with solid experience in both the practice and teaching of meditation.
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Insight Meditation
By: Goldstein, Joseph
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The Practice of Freedom
Insight meditation is the heart of the Buddha's teaching - a practice of awareness that leads us beyond the confines of our ordinary psychology to the freedom and clarity of our essential nature.
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Introduction to Mahamudra Meditation
By: Thrangu Rinpoche
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This a quite extraordinary teaching by Thrangu Rinpoche on the path and stages of Mahamudra meditation.
He covers the foundation practices, shamata, vipashyana, creation and completion and Mahamudra along with detailed explanations of posture, technique and practice. Included are some excellent question and answer discussions and teachings on bringing obstacles on the path.
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