9th One-Week Meditation Retreat, Hong Kong, June 2019
I honestly hope and aspire to one day be able to practise the greater vehicle, mahamudra, dzogchen and other secret mantra practices. But in this life, if I am able to have an authentic practice of the lower vehicle I would be absolutely delighted and think I am doing something amazing. Actually, it’s what I […]
Namo Buddha Seminar, 16 April 2019
I know you all love your mahamudra and dzogchen, don’t you? There’s probably not one of you in this room who have not had an introduction to the nature of mind. So I have a question for you: Who introduced the nature of mind to you? Who introduced mahamudra to you? I’m sure immediately the […]
Kagyu Samye Ling Zimbabwe, 10 September 2017
Meditation is to leave the mind just as it is, relaxed and easy, without thinking too much. But we find this incredibly difficult to do. As soon as we sit down and relax, we feel we have a bit of free time and start thinking and making plans. It is for this reason that when […]
Kagyu Samye Ling Zimbabwe, 11 September 2017
When it comes to meditation we should keep things simple right from the start. We shouldn’t have too many ideas within, nor too much clutter and stuff we think we need without. If we don’t keep things simple, we might find ourselves in a situation where we want to meditate but, lacking some ‘vital’ item, […]
Meditation Retreat, Kagyu Samye Ling, UK, 9 October 2016
When it comes to meditation, we have to rely on our own experience. If we just take what somebody else says, take their experience of meditation and attempt to replicate it, things are not going to go very well. Like that, we will never come to know meditation for ourselves. To give an example: let’s […]
The texts do teach about objectless or non-referential meditation, and having the mind naturally settled, but this meditation is taught only for those who are advanced, who have high levels of meditation. We are simply not able to do that yet because we are not clear about the mind, and that being the case, we […]
Before we start to meditate, we first need to look at our motivation, or the way we are thinking. We shouldn’t be looking to feel good, peaceful and happy; we shouldn't be thinking about these at all. If we are, then right from the start, our very first thoughts regarding what we are about to […]
Study, contemplation, and meditation are the steps that have to be followed in order to make progress in Dharma. As Kagyupas we have our own unique way of going about this, which is epitomised by Milarepa when he said, “I do not study the black words printed on paper but study the mind’s perceptions of […]
