Photo by Martin Ehrensvärd.“Just looking at the stupa stops your mind and makes you realize that the world is bigger than your internal monologue,” says Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. “It intrigues and relaxes your mind at the same time.”
Our habit is always to return to a small view of our experience. meditation trains us to return again and again to a larger view of our existence.
When it comes to contemplation practice, all we need is the power of our thoughts, says Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche on the three activities that are essential to training our minds — hearing, contemplating, and meditating.
Normally, when we talk about meditation, we’re talking about formal meditation, meaning that our meditation session has a definite beginning and end.
When we study the Buddhist dharma, we are not supposed to blindly accept what we are told. Instead, we should study our experience. It’s not easy to believe the truth, even if we have heard it many times, even if we want to believe it. We have to look at our own experience and discover […]
What is the nature of this thing we experience as the mind? According to the Buddhist understanding, we say that mind is clear, knowing and unbiased.
Photo by Liz Highleyman.
“When we take refuge in the Buddha, we mean the qualities of the Buddha that are inherent within us. We are taking refuge in our own intrinsic enlightenment.”
Psychologically, we are migrators. Going from one thing to another is what makes us happy. So do you think that all stops when you die?
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