Lama Jigme Gyatso
Why Traverse Enlightenment's Path? 17mar23
The great Buddhist teacher, Bodhidharma, cautioned that striving was suffering. What if the enlightenment the Buddha offered was simply...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Jan 6, 20232 min read
Metaphors, Confusion, and Meditation - 6jan23
It is a dark irony that the metaphors created by good hearted teachers, with the intention of benefitting their befuddled students have...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Jan 5, 20231 min read
Breathing, Duality, Meditation - 5jan23
Mindfulness and meditation (together) make up twenty-five percent of the Buddha’s eight-fold path. But how could that relate to the...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Jan 3, 20231 min read
HUMILIATION: the underlying fear - 3jan23
In the early 1980’s Rush sang, “…humiliation, the underlying fear…”. Wanna know a secret? Fear of scorn is baked into the cake of what it...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Jan 2, 20231 min read
Depression is NOT a Character Flaw - 2jan23
Not all meditation teachers are created equal. Some of them are wise, many are foolish, and some are downright cruel: convincing the...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Dec 31, 20221 min read
Depression, Loss, and Meditation - 31dec22
Depressive anxiety disorder is a thief, robbing us of time, and joy, and even hope; for who’s to say that it couldn’t return? It is...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Dec 29, 20221 min read
The Test of a Teacher - 29dec22
There are many meditation teachers: ordained, or not, affiliated, or independent, carbon copies, or self-styled, greedy, or generous,...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Dec 28, 20221 min read
Tao Te Ching, Comprehension, and Meditation - 28dec22
I am going to tell you a secret about the Tao Te Ching. It is its own best commentary. But don’t take my word for it, put it to the test....
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Dec 17, 20222 min read
Taoism for Meditators - 17dec22
Beware of stupid white men, crafting commentaries of commentaries, without ever having marinated in the eight-one chapters of the Tao Te...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Dec 11, 20221 min read
Clearing our Minds - 11dec22
When ten minuets of daily guided meditation fails to deliver the concentration or clarity we desire we must question the purpose and...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Dec 8, 20221 min read
Restlessness, Stress, and Meditation - 8dec22
Meditation that wrestles with mental stress and physical restlessness is NOT meditation, but rather its analog. Like those pale, red,...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Dec 6, 20221 min read
Panic Attack Solutions - 6dec22
Morpheus explained “…the mind cannot exist without the body…” nor can panic attacks. Our triggers are a stew: both physical and mental....
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Dec 4, 20221 min read
Decoding the Tao Te Ching - 4dec22
Have you read the Tao Te Ching? Was the author drunk, a stroke survivor, or was he incredibly wise? The basic thesis of its 81 chapters...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Nov 28, 20221 min read
Meditating while your Parents Argue - 28nov22
When we sit down to meditate, while parents argue within our hearing, how are we to accept that ugliness? Like a toddler in the surf,...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Nov 27, 20221 min read
Death of Self - 27nov22
It is ironic how that which was intended to accelerate the path of enlightenment has muddied waters and troubled hearts. For it has been...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Nov 20, 20221 min read
The Myth of the Monkey Mind - 20nov22
Elitist meditation teachers (not all of them villains, most of them fools) have convinced the unwashed masses that meditation consists of...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Nov 19, 20221 min read
Rigidity, Creativity, and Flow - 19nov22
Why is it that when neuroscientists hook meditation “masters” to their monitors they find that although these teachers access their...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Nov 18, 20221 min read
Medicine Buddha, Elitism, and Tantra - 18nov22
Ignore the elite or lazy minded! One needs no permission to invoke Medicine Buddha. Nor is he anything other than an architype of our...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Nov 14, 20221 min read
Slippery Thoughts - 14nov22
Actively striving to examine our thoughts is like taking a long hot bath when the bar of soap has gotten so soft, that when our fingers...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Nov 13, 20221 min read
Intrusive Thoughts - 13nov22
If your dark and violent thoughts are a threat to others go to https://www.pcrm.org/findadoctor to find a plant-based Psychiatrist. When...
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