"How the Lamas Practice” with Venerable Drimay

"The whole of a person’s daily routine can be broken up into full-day periods, and each can be divided into what happens during meditation sessions and what happens outside these sessions. Thus, any action of your body, speech, and mind occurs either during the meditation session or between sessions. If you make both of these periods fruitful, the whole day becomes fruitful. Extend this over a period of months, years, and so on, and your whole life becomes meaningful. This is crucial."

- Liberation in the Palm of your Hand, Day Four

Message from the instructor:

This is Discovering Buddhism course 8, which is officially called “Establishing a Daily Practice,” but I have gathered that students from past years are not actually doing this as a daily practice. Either they don’t have a daily practice or they are not doing these particular practices. So I have nicknamed this course “How the Lamas Practice.” Whatever your daily (or occasional) practice is, it will be enhanced by understanding the key points of a meditation session as passed down to us by the masters of our lineage.

In this course we will go over:

• setting up your practice space
• generating the kind of motivation that will get you to buddhahood
• connecting with the masters of the lineage
• going through mental exercises that purify obstacles and enhance positive psychological energy
• directing the mind to various points of the stages of the path (lam-rim)
• and related topics