Musings

  The first instruction in  Mind-Training in Seven Points  is: Do groundwork first. Tibetan instructions such as "Do groundwork first...

Practice Tip: How to Lose Your Mind Part 7 The third section of Gampopa’s text is titled Refining Thatness. Of course, thatness cannot be re...

  The third section of Gampopa’s instructions for mahamudra is about refining how thatness arises. The first of the four instructions in thi...

  I continue to find this little text by Gampopa quite amazing. To do it justice, I am constantly polishing the translation while I write th...

  Translation is just hard, particularly when the two languages are in unrelated language families. Something felt off with my previous tran...