The purpose of the guided meditations is to lead you step-by-step through the development of calm abiding, insight, and living the practice and help you identify and resolve difficulties you may encounter.
Each guided meditation has:
- a set of instructions,
- a written guide for the meditation,
- A recorded guided meditation
- questions to consider after meditation,
- suggestions for living the practice in your daily life.
These recordings include periods of silence. These pauses allow you to sit quietly without stopping and starting the recording. After the recording, continue meditating without any guidance.
Beginning of meditation session
Main Training
- Relaxation and Ease
- Calm Abiding
- Calm Abiding: General Instructions
- Resting Mind
- Resting Mind in Experience
- Resting Mind in Awareness
- Insight
- Looking at the Resting Mind
- Looking at the Moving Mind
- Looking at the Resting Mind and the Moving Mind
- Looking at Experience
- Building Skills and Developing Capacity
- Developing Capacity: General Instructions
- Developing Capacity 1: Developing Capacity to Rest the Mind
- Developing Capacity 2: Know it is Mind
- Developing Capacity 3: What is Experience?
- Developing Capacity 4: What is the Experience of Not Knowing?
- Developing Capacity 5: Mirror and its Reflections
- Developing Capacity 6: Non-meditation
- Developing Capacity 7: Sensory Field
- Developing Capacity 8: Resting Free
- Developing Capacity 9: Free of Manipulation, Control, and Fabrication
- Developing Capacity 10: Vastness/Nature of Mind
- Developing Capacity 11: The Observer
- Developing Capacity 12: Temporary Experiences
- Developing Capacity 13: Mind’s Miraculous Manifestations
- Developing Capacity 14: Removing Doubt from Meditation
- Developing Capacity 15: Not Suppressing Thoughts
- Developing Capacity 16: Doing Nothing
- Developing Capacity 17: Preparing for Death
Closing meditation session
As part of the closing of a meditation session, do consider reading, reciting, or chanting The Aspirations of Mahamudra (the whole prayer). If you do this on a regular basis, you will find that you absorb the whole framework for mahamudra practice and it will support your practice and understanding naturally.