Musings

 How to Lose Your Mind or The One and Only Path of Mahamudra by the peerless Lord Gampopa I bow to my excellent teachers. There are three po...

   Pragmatic Buddhism at Unfettered Mind is about effective methods of practice: effective ways to build skills and abilities,  effective wa...

  Today, I am going to consider the word visualize, or visualization. The Tibetan word is dmigs.pa (pron. mikpa). I've long suspected t...

 Newsletter, Nov. 6, 2007 Nagarjuna said that Buddha nature is empty.  In the Tibetan Kagyu tradition, Thrangu Rinpoche sees buddha nature a...

  Practice tip --  how  to  simplify  your life.      (newsletter 29, June 2012)     Question   I  wondered if you would ever consider writi...

The seventh point of Mind Training in Seven Points is called Guidelines. Where commitments (point six) are about avoiding emotional reaction...

The sixth point in Mind Training in Seven Points is about maintaining a connection with the practice of Mind Training. This practice element...