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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Jan 10, 20231 min read
Ego, Liberation, and Meditation - 10jan23
EGO: it is NOT a Sanskrit, nor a Pali word. It comes from the Greek, and was popularized in the west by a Viennese physician, more than a...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Jan 9, 20231 min read
Death, Rebirth, and Meditation
So many people, frightened by fundamentalist’s tales of death and unfortunate rebirths, long for safety and hunger for reassurance. And,...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Jan 8, 20231 min read
Meditation, Duration, and Depth - 8jan23
Having forged the habit of daily meditation, deepening its profundity is easy. Starting with FREQUENCY: meditate once every twelve hours...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
Jan 7, 20231 min read
Impulsiveness, Centeredness, and Meditation
Not all forms of spontaneity are created equal. SCATTERED spontaneity is quite often the result of our aversion, craving, and clinging...
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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 4, 20231 min read
Motivation, Goals, and Meditation - 4jan23
When practiced effectively meditation could function as an instrument of evolution: changing us in ways subtle and coarse, slow or...
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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
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Death, Grief, and Depression - 1jan23
Don’t repeat my grave-side mistake. At nineteen I ignorantly thought that the spiritual path was intended to shield us from painful...
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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 30, 20221 min read
Ego, Illusion, and Meditation - 30dec22
Viewing No-self as literal results in either confusion or pseudo-intellectual contrivance. However viewing Anatta as a tool of the...
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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 27, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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 24, 20222 min read
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 22, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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 19, 20222 min read
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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