Working for the Benefit of Others Brings Meaning to Our Lives A core practice of the seven points of mind training, or lojong, is exchanging oneself for others. This practice has many beneficial aspects. To begin with, our general tendency is to cherish ourselves and live a self-centered life. This translates as “whatever I like, […]| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
Mahayana Buddhism describes three types of motivation, or 3 vehicles, which transport us from where we are right now to where we’d like to be.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
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In Mahayana Buddhism, the bodhisattva is someone who has taken a vow to put others first. Our meditation can be infused with the desire to help others.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
Starting Your Meditation With The 7-Branch Mahayana Prayer| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
Starting Your Meditation With The 7-Branch Mahayana Prayer| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
The Heart Sutra is perhaps the most well-known sutra of Mahayana Buddhism, describing the heart of the teachings of the Perfection of Wisdom.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
The classic mind training verse ‘drive all blames into one’ teaches us to look for the one single source of our suffering, our own mind.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
According to the Buddha’s teachings of the two truths, there is a difference between how we and awakened beings experience the world.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
Compassion and bodhicitta are related, but there is a difference. Understanding how bodhicitta evolves can help us encourage the process.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
Tonglen means ‘giving and taking.’ This beautiful meditation practice is a mind training exercise for cultivating and expanding compassion.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
Emptiness in Buddhism is the teaching that things are empty of self-existence. All that we perceive is dependent on us, the perceiver.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
