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Why Practice the Generation Stage?

By matt | Published: May 13, 2016

[From a teaching on Essence of Wisdom: Stages of the Path by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso. ] Why practice the generation stage? […] Why do we do it? What does it do? Why do we need it? Do we need it? We need the practice of the generation stage because we […]

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Preliminaries More Profound Than the Main Practice

By matt | Published: March 18, 2016

[From a teaching on Essence of Wisdom: Stages of the Path, Part 8 by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] They [the preliminary or ngondro practices] are so important that it has been said, “The preliminaries are more profound than the main practice.” Well, why is this? It’s because if you do the […]

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The Mind is Everywhere

By matt | Published: March 18, 2016

[From a teaching on Secret Path of Unity by Bardor Tulku Rinpoche. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] What we are attempting to do in the practice of meditation is search for and discover our mind. So as explained here in our text [Secret Path of Unity by Sonam Zangpo], we search for the mind externally, […]

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