This site is about the practice of mahamudra. Mahamudra is simultaneously the name for
- a genre of meditation practices,
- the name for a body of teaching, and
- a term for buddhahood, the attainment of the highest or deepest mystical understanding in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism.
For more about mahamudra, see “About Mahamudra”
Meditation Practice
The meditation practice on this site is a series of guided meditations on mahamudra developed by Donna McLaughlin.
The guided meditations fall into three sections:
- Resting or Calm Abiding: Establishing a base of attention, the ability to abide calmly in attention without being distracted by thoughts, feelings, and sensations
- Insight or Higher Seeing: Developing the ability to see into the nature of mind, whether mind is moving or resting, clear or confused, and
- Building Skills and Developing Capacity: Ways to build and broaden your ability to be clear and present in whatever life throws at you.
Click here to read more about the guided meditations and how to practice them.
A Body of Teaching
Mahamudra has been taught for centuries starting in India, Tibet, and China. It is now taught in virtually every country in the world. The essence of all these teachings is contained in a prayer written in the 13th century in Tibet, Aspirations for Mahamudra.
This prayer provides support for your practice of mahamudra. The translation and commentary on it presented here are by Ken McLeod.
Click here to read more about the prayer and its author
Click here to view or download the full prayer
Buddhahood
Of the many, many descriptions of buddhahood, the simplest is that it is the end of confusion and reactivity, confusion about what we are and the tendency to react emotionally to what arises in life. This is precisely the aim and purpose of mahamudra practice.
Rights and permissions
Donna McLaughlin retains all rights to the content on this website while freely allowing people to distribute individual pieces in their entirety with attribution but not for commercial gain as specified in the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Please share how and where you are using these materials with Donna via her email address donna@unfetteredmind.org