Discovering the Buddha within
Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa’s new teaching and practice program
INFORMATION on the PROGRAM
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Inner Peace
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The first level focuses on calming the mind and developing insight and wisdom through some simple yet profound study, meditations, and contemplations derived from the Shravakayana teachings of the Buddha. Awareness meditations and precise knowledge will allow students to discover inner peace, accept and let go of worldly concerns without grasping at or rejecting them, and develop a stable aspiration for genuine freedom. Guided meditations and question-and-answer sessions will help students learn how to start a daily meditation practice at home.
In this level students will
1. Learn the essence of meditation and develop and nurture awareness and inner peace using breath, body, feelings, thoughts, emotions, and phenomena as a support for meditation.
2. Learn the basics of Buddhism through knowledge and advanced insight meditation
- They understand the shortcomings of one’s life and the world, the origins and cessation of suffering, and the means to reach that cessation, along with understanding refuge-the starting point of the path to an everlasting state of well-being, rich with innate goodness and radiant pure qualities.
- They develop advanced insight meditation mainly based on experiential observation of the natural flow of everything as being impermanent.
Awakened Heart
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Through meditations on loving kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity, and so forth, students will learn to awaken their hearts and discover their innate goodness, further enriching the calm state of mind and deepening their meditation through recognition of emptiness, which is the essence of the Mahayana.
In this level students will
1. Discover their inner goodness
- By discovering and cultivating love, compassion, appreciation or joy, and
- By developing their potential through six perfect states of mind, the six paramita
- By training their mind to transform defilements into love and compassion
2. Widen their motivation and outlook and gain deeper insight
- By learning about and meditating on bodhicitta, the awakening mind.
- By gaining an advanced insight that understands selflessness through direct experience.
Original Purity
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Meditations connected with buddha nature, which is the basis of Vajrayana, the last of Buddha’s teachings, will allow students to discover their enlightened nature, the primordial purity of the mind and the universe, and to experience pure perception of everyone and everything.
In this level students will
1. Discover the primordial purity of their own mind and the universe
- By discovering through advanced insight their own buddha nature and the original purity of everything.
2. Learn how to reveal that purity
- By appreciating and developing gratitude for one’s own enlightened mind, by meditating on guru yoga, and by learning about creation and completion stage meditations according to the Vajrayana.
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