Lama Jigme Gyatso
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 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 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 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 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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