The bodhisattva vow is a commitment to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. This altruistic practice sets the tone for each day.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
The good news is that right here, right now, we have agency: we can purify negative karma and build on positive karma.| 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
Om mani padme hum, translated as ‘jewel in the lotus,’ is a compassion mantra containing the essence of all dharma within its 6 syllables.| 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
Understanding Hinayana and Mahayana, the major Buddhist schools of thought, helps us differentiate between the primary branches of Buddhism.| Mindworks
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