Relish these direct, experiential meditation instructions from the author of the bestselling Introduction to Tantra .
Her life and work have been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom..
Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism.
Robina Courtin has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche\'s FPMT.
Ordained since the late 1970s, Ven.
In 1975 they founded the international Buddhist organization the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), which now has more than 160 centers, projects, and services worldwide.
In the late 1960s, with his chief disciple Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, he began teaching Buddhism to Westerners at Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal.
He fled the Chinese occupation of his country in 1959.
About the Author: Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935-84) was born in Tibet and educated at the great Sera Monastic University.
He gets us to go beyond ego\'s addiction to a limited sense of self and to taste the lightness and expansiveness of our own True nature.
As always, Lama Yeshe\'s words are direct, funny, and incredibly encouraging.
Mahamudra is only experience." He relies on the First Panchen Lama\'s well-known Root Text of Genden Mahamudra, which in a few short pages provides the pith instructions for, first, overcoming distraction and resting in meditative stillness on the clarity of one\'s own mind, and then, with subtle awareness, penetrating its ultimate nature, its emptiness.
Lama Yeshe tells us that mahamudra is "the universal reality of emptiness, of nonduality" and its unique characteristic is its emphasis on meditation: "With mahamudra meditation there is no doctrine, no theology, no philosophy, no God, no Buddha.
Relish these direct, experiential meditation instructions from the author of the bestselling Introduction to Tantra
