Sublime

Her spiritual practice was called Chöd (pronounced “chuh”), which means “to cut through.” She developed this form of meditation, unusual even in her time in Tibet, and it generated such amazing results that it became very popular, spreading to all the schools of Tibetan Buddhism and beyond.

You can follow in the footsteps of Milarepa. Regardless of the various mistakes you may have made in your life or the pain you currently carry, you can smile. You can renounce the aspects of yourself that continue to weigh you down or make you miserable. Through applying the basic technique of meditation practice, you can turn your mind toward the

He put more emphasis on posture and taught people to put very light attention on their out-breath. Later he said that the out-breath was as close as you could come to simply resting the mind in its natural open state and still have an object to which to return.

Shinzen Young, a Vipassana teacher I studied with online, describes this as “learning to live as the wave, instead of the particle.”

“small mind.” It can also be described as sem. In Tibetan there are several words for mind, but two that are particularly helpful to know are sem and rikpa. Sem is what we experience as discursive thoughts, a stream of chatter that’s always reinforcing an image of ourselves. Rikpa literally means “intelligence” or “brightness.” Behind all the plann