All ‘Buddhist Meditation’ posts
Buddhist meditation is a uniquely powerful method for realising the true nature of our mind. Here you can read articles relating to Buddhist meditation, including guided meditations with our great meditation masters, and meditation tips to help establish a daily habit of meditation.
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
meditation
This article in the New Zealand Press by a member of the New Zealand Diamond Way sangha gives an excellent description of Buddhist meditation. Enjoy!
Watching our minds
BY NIKI JIMENEZ
There are many concepts and ideas about meditation.
One can only do it sitting down in quiet surroundings. It is a state of mind with no thoughts, or a sense of peace combined with white light. Most of all, we think that it is something separate and special from our everyday activities.
Meditation means to effortlessly remain in that which is. Without expectation or fear, we experience each moment as fresh and full of potential. (more…)
Tags: Meditation, New Zealand
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Saturday, October 30th, 2010
An interesting piece that appeared earlier this month in the British Psychological Society’s Research Blog. Reproduced here expecially for those of us working on our Ngondro practice!
How to form a habit
This has nothing to do with nuns’ clothing. Habits are those behaviours that have become automatic, triggered by a cue in the environment rather than by conscious will. Health psychologists are interested for obvious reasons – they want to assist people in breaking unhealthy habits, while helping them adopt healthy ones. Remarkably, although there are plenty of habit-formation theories, before now, no-one had actually studied habits systematically as they are formed.
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Tags: habit, Ngondro
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
Lama Gendun Rinpoche (1918-1997) was the meditation master and the spiritual leader of the Four Dhagpos. He spent over thirty years of his life in solitary retreat in Tibet and India. Lama Gendun Rinpoche was one of the last great masters of the old generation of Tibetan Lamas. Everything he taught, had been experienced first hand during his numerous retreats in caves in the Himalayas and in India. He represented the quintessence of the fully realized yogi and the perfectly pure monk. It is said that he practiced prostrations every day of his life, even in his 70s.
Prostrations are done in connection with the first of the Four Foundational Practices (Tib. Ngondro): “Taking Refuge and Developing the Enlightened Attitude.” We hope that these teachings are inspiring for those who are doing this practice. Please note that the information here is not a substitute for the full oral explanations on the practice, which can be received from experienced friends in your nearest Karma Kagyu Diamond Way Buddhist Centre. (more…)
Tags: Gendun Rinpoche, Ngondro, prostrations
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
This interview was conducted by Stefan Watzlawek and Melanie Zaremba on May 24, 2006, in Houston, Texas and appeared in Volume 20 of the Magazine Buddhism Today published in 2007 and is also held on the Buddhachannel.tv online portal. It concerns the main practice taught in Diamond Way Buddhist Centres worldwide, the “Guru Yoga” Meditation on the 16th Karmapa.
16th Karmapa wearing the Black Crown
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Tags: 16th Karmapa, 16th Karmapa meditation, advice, Buddhism, Buddhism Today Magazine, Foundatational Practices, Lama Ole Nydahl, Meditation, practice
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
Prepared by Dr. Peter Malinowski
Dr. Peter Malinowski
Dr. Peter Malinowski is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the School of Natural Sciences & Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University. He is also a close student of Lama Ole Nydahl, a founding member of the Liverpool Diamond Way Buddhist Centre, travelling teacher, trustee of Diamond Way Buddhism UK, and has been instrumental in the establishment of Diamond Way Buddhism in the UK, particularly in the North of England, since 2001. In this brief article he presents an overview of contemporary research into the psychological and physiological effects of Buddhist meditation.
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Tags: brain, Buddhist, Buddhist Meditation, health, Liverpool, Meditation, Peter Malinowski, physiology, psychology, Science, scientific, well being
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
London Buddhist Centre (Diamond Way) has been offering meditation classes for beginners and experienced practitioners alike since 1997. In this blog post you can find out more about its development and regular activity.
London Buddhist Centre - Press the buzzer!
Our London Buddhist Centre was established in 1997 when Steve James moved to London. Steve was the first British student of Lama Ole Nydahl who was based permanently in the UK. After meeting Lama Ole Nydahl in Japan in 1993, Steve was inspired to start a Diamond Way Buddhist meditation group in Cambridge where he was studying medicine.
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Tags: Buddhism, Buddhist, class, courses, London, meditate, Meditation, Tibetan
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