Posts Tagged ‘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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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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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye (1813-1899) was one of the most prominent Buddhist masters in the 19th century and holder of the Karma Kagyu lineage.
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye (1813-1899)
“In the Mantra approach, with its many methods and few austerities, a person of sharp faculties and high intelligence may gather the two accumulations during all activities and never do even a trace of anything meaningless.”
– Jamgon Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye, The Outline of Essential Points – Published as “Creation & completion: essential points of tantric meditation” (Wisdom Publications, 2005)
Tags: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Kagyu Lineage, mantra, Meditation
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
Outside our Brighton Buddhist Centre
Brighton Buddhist centre: On Saturday 20th March 2010 our new centre opened its doors to the public. A converted shop in Baker Street is now home to the new Buddhist centre. It is located in an up-and-coming area of Brighton. In order to celebrate the move to the new premises the members of our Brighton Buddhist centre organised an open day for the locals to meet their new neighbours.
On the day, many interested local people came along for a chat and a cup of tea. Some also took part in guided (more…)
Tags: 16th Karmapa, Buddha, Buddhist, Kagyu Lineage, Karma, Karol Sleczek, Lama Ole Nydahl, meditate, Meditation, Ngondro, open day, Tibetan
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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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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
In our second retrospective post, we would like to share some inspiring impressions of H.H. 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje’s second visit to the UK at the invitation of Diamond Way Buddhism UK, in June 2007.
Reports of other visits of the 17th Karmapa to London can be found here (2005) and here (2009).
Poster for 17th Karmapa in London August 2007
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Tags: Black Hat, Bodhisattva Promise, Buddha, Buddhism, Buddhist Refuge, Chinese, Compassion, Daily Mirror, Dharma, e-blessing, Empowerment, Kagyu Lineage, London, Meditation, Metro, MySpace, non-political, The Times, Trinley Thaye Dorje, White Tara, Wisdom, yidam
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
In this post we recollect Lama Ole Nydahl’s first visit to Edinburgh. Martin Dahms, who comments later in the post, was one of the founders of the original Edinburgh Diamond Way Buddhist Group which was active between 2000 and 2003.
Edinburgh Skyline
On Tuesday 28 March 2000, Lama Ole Nydahl gave a talk at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens lecture theatre, entitled “Basis, Way and Goal in Diamond Way Buddhism”. The talk was an introduction to Diamond Way Buddhism, in which Lama Ole pointed to the Buddha nature as the basis for our development, gave an overview of the methods the Buddha taught to remove the veils which prevent us from experiencing this potential, and explained how the goal – enlightenment – is the full development of mind’s inherent qualities. The lecture was attended by several friends who travelled from London, elsewhere in the UK and abroad, as well as many locals, including inquisitive members of what Lama Ole wryly described in his lecture as a nearby “Presbyterian Buddhist Centre”!
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Tags: Arthur's Seat, Blessing, Buddha, Edinburgh, Enlightenment, Holyrood Park, Kagyu Lineage, Karma, Martin Dhams, Meditation, presbytarian buddhist centre, skyline
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
We would like to share some inspiring impressions of H.H. 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje‘s first two visits to the UK, which happened before this blog was established. Gyalwa Karmapa’s first historic visit was in August 2005, when he stayed for four days in London at the invitation of Diamond Way Buddhism UK. He was joined by Lama Jigme Rinpoche, Lama Ole and Hannah Nydahl and other distinguished lamas who were part of the travelling entourage of the 16th Karmapa in the UK during the 1970s.
Reports of other visits of the 17th Karmapa to London can be found here (2007) and here (2009).
Flyer 1 for 2005 course (front)
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Tags: Black Crown, Black Hat, Blessing, bodhisattva, Bodhisattva Promise, Buddhist Refuge, Dhagpo, Empowerment, Guru Yoga, Kagyu, Lama Jigme Rinpoche, London, Marpa, Meditation, Metro, Rumtek Monastery, St Ethelburga's, The Times
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