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Ongoing Audio Course: Meditation on the Graded Stages of the Path (Lam-rim)

We regularly add new recordings of Dr. Berzin's ongoing meditation course, which contains practical explanations, periods of silence for performing the meditiations and discussions with participants. Please note that these recordings are not listed here on the news page. For the latest recordings of this course, please go to: Meditation Practice on the Graded Stages of the Path .

• The Five Aggregates in the Context of the Four Hallmarks of the Dharma (Morelia, Mexico, April 2004) (video + audio + transcript)
• The Conventional Nature of the Mind (Morelia, Mexico, April 2004) (video + audio + transcript)
• Preliminaries for Meditation or Study for Stressed Practitioners (video + audio + transcript)
• A Practice Session of Analytical Meditation on the Precious Human Life (video)
• Rebirth: What Is It That Is Reborn? (video)
• Brief Explanation of the Differences among the Four Classes of Tantra (audio + transcript)
• Sensitivity Training to Quiet the Mind
  • Session One: The “Letting-Go" Method for Quieting the Mind (video)
  • Session Two: The “Writing on Water” Method for Quieting the Mind (video)
  • Session Three: The “Swell on the Ocean” Method for Quieting the Mind (video)
  • Session Four: Focusing on Someone We Like and on Someone We Don’t Like (video)
  • Session Five: The Mental Factors Involved with Maintaining a Quiet Mind (video)
  • Session Six: Focusing on Someone in Person and on Ourselves (video)
• European Buddhism: Challenges and Opportunities (short essay)
• Meditations for Recognizing the Five Aggregates
  • Session One: Why Are the Five Aggregates Important? (audio + transcript)
  • Session Two: Understanding Our Confusion about the Five Aggregates (audio + transcript)
  • Session Three: The Aggregate of Forms of Physical Phenomena (audio + transcript)
  • Session Four: The Aggregate of Feelings of a Level of Happiness (audio + transcript)
  • Session Five: The Aggregate of Distinguishing (audio + transcript)
  • Session Six: The Aggregate of Other Affecting Variables (audio + transcript)
  • Session Seven: The Aggregate of Other Affecting Variables (continued) and the Aggregate of Types of Consciousness (audio + transcript)
• Clarification Session on the Kalachakra Six-Session Guru-Yoga (video + audio)
• Training Our Attitudes in Daily Life: Nothing Special
  • Session One: Nothing Special about Ourselves or Our Feelings (video + audio + transcript)
  • Session Two: Addiction to Social Networks and Text Messaging (video + audio + transcript)
  • Session three: Nothing Special about the Transitory Things in Life and the Conceptual Framework for "Nothing Special" (video + audio + transcript)
• Elaboration of “Approaches to the Dharma – Intellectual, Emotional and Devotional” (video + audio)
• Dharma in Daily Life (transcript)
• Distinctive Features of the Four Traditions of Tibetan Buddhism (video)
• The Difference between Discerning (Analytical) Meditation and Stabilizing Meditation on Compassion (video + audio + transcript)
• Introduction to the Guhyasamaja System of Anuttarayoga Tantra (video + audio + transcript)
• The Six Preparatory Practices and Advice Concerning Ngondro Preliminary Practices
  • Session One: Personal Experience and Advice on Preliminary Practices and the example of Tsongkhapa (video + audio)
  • Session Two: The Six Preparatory Practices – Sweeping and Cleaning the Meditation Room (video + audio)
  • Session Three: Obtaining and Arranging Offerings (video + audio)
  • Session Four: A Proper Seat, Prostration, and the Posture for Sitting (video + audio)
  • Session Five: Advice Concerning Cleansing Negative Potentials and Building Up Positive Force (video + audio)
  • Session Six: Safe Direction (Refuge) and Bodhichitta (video + audio)
  • Session Seven: The Last Three Preparatory Practices and Questions on the Preliminary Practices (Ngondro) (video + audio)
• Introduction to the Chakrasamvara System of Anuttarayoga Tantra (video + audio + transcript)
• General Kriya Tantra Practice
  • Session Two: The Four Types of Mental Stability and Questions (audio + transcript)
  • Session One: Features of Tantra and the Six Deities Practice (audio + transcript)
• Elaboration of the Buddhist and the Scientific Understandings of the Nature of Time
  • Session One: The Nature of Time as a Temporal Interval (audio + transcript)
  • Session Two: Is There a Common-Denominator Temporal Interval? (audio + transcript)
  • Session Three: Time According to Western Science (audio + transcript)
  • Session Four: Past, Present, and Future in Buddhism (audio + transcript)
  • Session Five: The Relation between Objects of the Three Times (audio + transcript)
  • Session Six: Exploratory Analysis of What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? (audio + transcript)
• Introduction to Four Hundred Verses
  • Session One: Overcoming Incorrect Consideration with Respect to the Body (audio + transcript)
  • Session Two: Overcoming Incorrect Views Concerning the Conventional Truth of Things (audio + transcript)
  • Session Three: Background to Aryadeva’s Eights Chapters on Voidness, and Discussion of Chapter Nine (Refuting Static Functional Phenomena) (audio + transcript)
  • Session Four: Overcoming Incorrect Views Concerning the Deepest Truth (Voidness) of Things (audio + transcript)
• Overcoming the Compulsiveness of Karma with Ethical Self-Discipline
  • Session One: The First Level of Ethical Self-Discipline (audio + transcript)
  • Session Two: The Other Two Levels of Ethical Self-Discipline (audio + transcript)
  • Session Three: The Mechanism of Karma (audio + transcript)
  • Session Four: Overcoming Karma (audio + transcript)
• The Challenges for Buddhism in the Twenty-first Century (video + audio + transcript)
• Why I Began the Berzin Archives (video + audio + transcript)

• The Five Aggregates in the Context of the Four Hallmarks of the Dharma
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• The Conventional Nature of the Mind
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• Preliminaries for Meditation or Study for Stressed Practitioners
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• Brief Explanation of the Differences among the Four Classes of Tantra
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• Meditations for Recognizing the Five Aggregates
  • Session One: Why Are the Five Aggregates Important? (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Two: Understanding Our Confusion about the Five Aggregates (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Three: The Aggregate of Forms of Physical Phenomena (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Four: The Aggregate of Feelings of a Level of Happiness (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Five: The Aggregate of Distinguishing (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Six: The Aggregate of Other Affecting Variables (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Seven: The Aggregate of Other Affecting Variables (continued) and the Aggregate of Types of Consciousness (audio + transcript)
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• Clarification Session on the Kalachakra Six-Session Guru-Yoga
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• Training Our Attitudes in Daily Life: Nothing Special
  • Session One: Nothing Special about Ourselves or Our Feelings (video + audio + transcript)
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  • Session Two: Addiction to Social Networks and Text Messaging (video + audio + transcript)
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  • Session three: Nothing Special about the Transitory Things in Life and the Conceptual Framework for "Nothing Special" (video + audio + transcript)
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• Elaboration of “Approaches to the Dharma – Intellectual, Emotional and Devotional”
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• The Difference between Discerning (Analytical) Meditation and Stabilizing Meditation on Compassion
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• Introduction to the Guhyasamaja System of Anuttarayoga Tantra
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• The Six Preparatory Practices and Advice Concerning Ngondro Preliminary Practices
  • Session One: Personal Experience and Advice on Preliminary Practices and the example of Tsongkhapa (video + audio)
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  • Session Two: The Six Preparatory Practices – Sweeping and Cleaning the Meditation Room (video + audio)
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  • Session Three: Obtaining and Arranging Offerings (video + audio)
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  • Session Four: A Proper Seat, Prostration, and the Posture for Sitting (video + audio)
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  • Session Five: Advice Concerning Cleansing Negative Potentials and Building Up Positive Force (video + audio)
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  • Session Six: Safe Direction (Refuge) and Bodhichitta (video + audio)
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  • Session Seven: The Last Three Preparatory Practices and Questions on the Preliminary Practices (Ngondro) (video + audio)
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• Introduction to the Chakrasamvara System of Anuttarayoga Tantra
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• General Kriya Tantra Practice
  • Session Two: The Four Types of Mental Stability and Questions (audio + transcript)
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  • Session One: Features of Tantra and the Six Deities Practice (audio + transcript)
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• Elaboration of the Buddhist and the Scientific Understandings of the Nature of Time
  • Session One: The Nature of Time as a Temporal Interval (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Two: Is There a Common-Denominator Temporal Interval? (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Three: Time According to Western Science (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Four: Past, Present, and Future in Buddhism (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Five: The Relation between Objects of the Three Times (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Six: Exploratory Analysis of What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? (audio + transcript)
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• Introduction to Four Hundred Verses
  • Session One: Overcoming Incorrect Consideration with Respect to the Body (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Two: Overcoming Incorrect Views Concerning the Conventional Truth of Things (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Three: Background to Aryadeva’s Eights Chapters on Voidness, and Discussion of Chapter Nine (Refuting Static Functional Phenomena) (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Four: Overcoming Incorrect Views Concerning the Deepest Truth (Voidness) of Things (audio + transcript)
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• Overcoming the Compulsiveness of Karma with Ethical Self-Discipline
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  • Session Two: The Other Two Levels of Ethical Self-Discipline (audio + transcript)
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  • Session Three: The Mechanism of Karma (audio + transcript)
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• The Challenges for Buddhism in the Twenty-first Century
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• Why I Began the Berzin Archives
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• Equalizing Our Attitudes toward Ourselves: Overcoming Self-Hatred
  • Session One: Developing Equanimity toward What We’ve Done in Our Lives (video + audio + transcript)
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  • Session Four: Nine Perspectives for Developing a Positive Attitude toward Ourselves (video + audio + transcript)
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  • Session Five: Five Decisions for Developing a Positive Attitude toward Ourselves (video + audio + transcript)
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• Explanation of The Yoga of the Spiritual Master Inseparable from Avalokiteshvara
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  • Session Five: Questions and General Advice on Lam-rim and Tantra (video + audio)
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• Introduction to "Integrating the Various Aspects of One's Life"
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