Stillness, Insight, and Emptiness: Buddhist Meditation from the Ground Up

by Dudjom Dorjee

Meditation is the key to meaningful Buddhist practice, but establishing a solid foundation requires skill and sustained effort. In simple and inviting language, this book shows how to develop a successful meditation practice.

In Tibetan Buddhism, developing a consistent and sustained meditation practice is the first step toward discerning the true nature of reality as taught by the Buddha. Lama Dudjom Dorjee encapsulates the Buddha's teaching in terms that are accessible and encouraging for beginning meditators, covering topics from establishing a proper meditation posture to realizing the luminous and spacious qualities of the mind.

Chapters discuss
•The life of the Buddha
•The first turning of the wheel of dharma
•The four noble truths and the eightfold path
•Proper meditation posture
•The nine stages of shamatha, or resting the mind
•Common obstacles to shamatha and their antidotes
•Benefits of developing shamatha
•The subsequent stages of practice, including insight/vipashyana meditation and mahamudra

Genres: Buddhism

152 pages, Paperback

First published October 8, 2013

About the author

Lama Dudjom Dorjee is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher. He came to the United States at the request of the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa. Since 1998 he has been the resident teacher of Karma Thegsum Choling in Dallas.

Reviews

[Everett Grandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Never leaving HOME

One may walkabout of consciousness as well as form and never leave home insightfulness is this realization a movement of that which is immovable and core of being, emptiness

[Pete · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredibly helpful during a very dark and stressful period of my life..will take these lessons to heart and reference often.

[Nick · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best book I've read which encapsulates the reasons for a dharma practice and how to proceed with that practice. Concise, well written, and complete. Lama Dudjom Dorjee lays it all out there for everyone to read and understand. A great book and one which I will refer to frequently during my practices and self reflection.