Posted Date :01,September 2023
Date 07 Sep,2023
Venue : In person at Jamyang Leeds in the first floor Gompa and also online
Time : Thursday 6pm to 7:30pm; Friday 10am to 4pm; Saturday 10am to 4pm
MAHAMUDRA: HOW TO DISCOVER OUR TRUE NATURE
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. 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 by using a subtle wisdom, penetrating its ultimate nature, its emptiness.
As always, Lama Yeshe’s words are direct, funny, and incredibly encouraging. 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.