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This lecture gives an outline of Tibetan meditation, in the context of the five stages common to all Buddhist meditation systems, and concludes with a description of the Green Tara visualisation practice.
Talk given in 1968.
This talk is part of the series An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism.
| 1. | Buddhist meditation (5:55) | |
| 2. | The withdrawl of the mind from the senses (4:03) | |
| 3. | Suppression of the hindrances to meditation (10:06) | |
| 4. | Elimination of discursive thought (4:38) | |
| 5. | Development of higher states of awareness (2:27) | |
| 6. | The arising of Insight (3:17) | |
| 7. | What Tantric meditation is (4:19) | |
| 8. | What is transmitted? (5:39) | |
| 9. | Initiations (3:48) | |
| 10. | Acquisition of the three kayas (4:17) | |
| 11. | Correspondences between: initiations, body, speech, and mind, and the three kayas; (1:50) | |
| 12. | Initiations and four yogas (4:31) | |
| 13. | The unorganised nature of the material (3:13) | |
| 14. | Introduction to the Green Tara practice (4:59) | |
| 15. | Going for Refuge (3:51) | |
| 16. | Brahma Viharas (2:09) | |
| 17. | Meditation on shunyata (1:49) | |
| 18. | Visualisation of the 'seed syllable' (1:57) | |
| 19. | Green Tara herself (5:53) | |
| 20. | The mantra (2:15) | |
| 21. | Dissolving (1:51) | |
| 22. | Tara and the voidness (shunyata) (2:05) | |
| 23. | Dedication of merits (0:49) | |
| 24. | Simplifying the practice (3:30) | |
| 25. | Integrating practice into daily life (3:10) |
Total running time: 1:32:21
