Lama Jigme Gyatso
Demystifying Zen 19mar23
Let us wrest zazen from the grasp of the elitist and the superstitious. Our warm up is the Heart Sutra and our cool down is the...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Mar 13, 2023
- 2 min
Open Eyed Meditation 13mar23
Perhaps you are like me, and also were raised where contemplatives in magazines, movies, and art work were depicted as sitting with their...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Mar 8, 2023
- 2 min
Observation: Repression or Meditation 8mar23
Repressing our thoughts, memories, and feelings during meditation is never a good thing. It is easy to do. And we don’t even have to do...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Mar 7, 2023
- 2 min
Mechanics of Mindfulness 7mar23
I love Kung Fu Hustle, have you seen it? In the final reel of the film the protagonist has found his inner martial arts master and as...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Mar 1, 2023
- 2 min
Ego-death, Mindfulness, and Meditation (1mar23)
“Ego-death” is a popular term in the literature extoling the benefits of DMT, but what does it mean? Like many compound metaphors it is...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Feb 11, 2023
- 1 min
Concentration, Distraction, and Mindfulness - 11feb23
Let’s contrast concentration with mindfulness. Numerous authors have recorded their misadventures, squandering months in earnest...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Feb 4, 2023
- 1 min
Concentration, Suppression, and Mindfulness - 4feb23
Every thought suppressed is an opportunity for insight, lost! But how do contemplatives find themselves in this predicament?...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Jan 31, 2023
- 1 min
Mindfulness and Meditation Clarified - 31jan23
Pseudo-spiritual hacks mercilessly juggle the terms mindfulness and meditation confusing everyone. Neuroscience could offer some great...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Jan 20, 2023
- 1 min
Meditation and Gilded Cages - 20jan23
Obsessive compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder could be torture. So it is utterly understandable that those who suffer...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Jan 18, 2023
- 1 min
Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Meditation
The Buddha dropped a hint in the Anapanasati Sutta first with the phrase, “…true knowledge and liberation…” and then with “…coalescence...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Jan 17, 2023
- 1 min
Mindfulness, Impermanence, and Meditation - 17jan23
In junior high my companions would regale each other with tales of Bruce Lee. Each story a more fanciful departure from the truth. The...
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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 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 7, 2022
- 1 min
The Metronome of Breath - 7dec22
Breathing could be quite like a metronome; especially when it unfolds naturally and spontaneously. Due to one of evolution’s happy...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Nov 20, 2022
- 1 min
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
- Sep 8, 2022
- 2 min
Love of Silence
The merciless sun beat down upon the solitary retreat center. To the teacher’s delight an anemic breeze drifted in through the...
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Lama Jigme Gyatso
- Aug 11, 2022
- 2 min
Running Meditation
There are brave men and women who put themselves in harm’s way, so we don’t have to. And many of these military folk must run on a daily...
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