Buddhist Studies

I’m often asked, “do I really need to meditate everyday? Why?” Think about it: mindlessness is natural to us. It is easy to space out and be distracted. Try to look at an object [...]

In this audio program, which is excerpted from my audio learning course (available through Soundstrue.com) Dream Yoga: The Tibetan Path of Awakening through Lucid Dreaming, I offer meditation [...]

One of the biggest problems we have in life is loss of perspective, and how that results in unnecessary suffering. I’m paying more attention to how often my mind contracts around an issue, and [...]

The Takpo Kagyu chant is the invocation for the practice of mahamudra in the Kagyu tradition. Kagyu is one of the four lineages in Tibetan Buddhism. The principal teaching of the Kagyu is [...]

  The Four Dharmas of Gampopa is an important set of teachings that were made available to us by the great master, Lord Gampopa. He was one of the great fathers of the Kagyu Lineage of [...]

There are a number of chants that are recited in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. These offer a rich condensation of the essential teachings of Buddhism.  The liturgies themselves are dense, and [...]

Sooner or later a meditator will encounter a meditative experience - which is a time of rejoicing, and a time for concern. Meditative absorption, as coveted as it may be, is not the point of the [...]

Waking up hurts. And if we don’t understand why, we will run from the pain and abandon the path. There are countless people who have become spiritual dropouts, or who are lost in detours because [...]

Running into difficulties in meditation, or the spiritual path altogether, is completely normal – and to be expected. If you don’t have difficulties, you’re probably not meditating correctly. [...]

The four reminders, or four thoughts that turn the mind, are an important preparation for death because they turn the mind from constantly looking outward to finally looking within. As with [...]