The Test of a Teacher - 29dec22
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There are many meditation teachers: ordained, or not, affiliated, or independent, carbon copies, or self-styled, greedy, or generous,...
Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 28, 2022
- 1 min
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 27, 2022
- 1 min
Breathing, Bliss, and Meditation - 27dec22a
Let us conclude with a simple call to action In the Tibetan tradition Lamas are supported not by monasteries but by students as such the...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 26, 2022
- 2 min
Control, Anxiety, and Meditation - 26dec22
“If it’s to be it’s up to me…” said (or thought) all who are victims of their own controlling tendencies; but neither Lao Tzu, nor...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 25, 2022
- 2 min
Insults, Flow-state, and Meditation
Most of us don’t have eidetic recall, until it comes to insults and the hurt they inflict. Our brain replays them time and again, often...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 24, 2022
- 2 min
Interrupting Anxiety with Contemplation
Generalized anxiety disorder is a pain in the ass, and NOT in the fun tingly way. Our under-brains evolved an amygdala and the ability to...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 23, 2022
- 2 min
Of Visions, Meaning, and Meditation - 23dec22
Our mind could be likened to a supercomputer, so vast and creative that parts of it sometimes communicate to other parts of it in...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 22, 2022
- 2 min
Turmoil's Antidote: self-talk or contemplation - 22dec22
Turmoil can sneak into our meditation and steal our peace. What are we to do about it? Purveyors of cognitive behavioral therapy...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
Self-esteem and Meditation - 21dec22
Enduring low self-esteem could sometimes feel like there is a small goblin nesting in our skull. Clever: he has access to all our...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 20, 2022
- 2 min
Anger, Non-duality, and Meditation - 20dec22
Rage can creep up on us during meditation. It is strong, energetic, and defies being shaken off. It has mass, and adhesion, and it...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 19, 2022
- 2 min
Fear and Meditation - 19dec22
Fear saved our ancestor’s lives many times over. But in our world (safe and sanitized) it often does more harm than good. After a...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 18, 2022
- 2 min
Love and Meditation - 18dec22
Love can tear out your still-beating heart and eat it before your dimming eyes. Unsurprisingly so many of us have wondered whether the...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 17, 2022
- 2 min
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 16, 2022
- 2 min
Accountability, Debauchery, and Meditation - 16dec22
The toughest thing about mastering meditation is making a habit of it. Fortunately neuroscience can offer some clues. We are wired for...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 15, 2022
- 2 min
Of Memories and Meditation - 15dec22
Memories of events long forgotten surfacing during effective meditation are nothing new. But what of similar memories surfacing during...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 14, 2022
- 2 min
Mindfulness or Emptiness?
Some Zen students are advised to simply watch their thoughts while others are admonished “there is NO thinker of the thoughts.” Well,...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 13, 2022
- 2 min
The Secret of No Self - 13dec22
It’s not fair! So many good hearted people have been given so much bad advice about the (so called) mystery of NO self. Let’s begin by...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 12, 2022
- 1 min
Cultivating Intuition - 12dec22
Discerning intuition from dread or desire (slavering and craven) could be dicey work. There are two toxic extremes: SCATTERED-spontaneity...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Dec 11, 2022
- 1 min
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 10, 2022
- 1 min
PTSD, Hate, and Villainy - 10dec22
There are experiences that belong in memory but which trauma chains to the present (where they can do the most harm) convincing us that...
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