4. Mahamudra: How to Discover Our True Nature - Sunday Session 3a

Venerable Robina Courtin teaches on "Mahamudra: How to Discover Our True Nature.", a book of Lama Yeshe's teachings edited by Venerable Robina. The original teachings by Lama Yeshe were given in Bendigo, Australia in 1981; hosted by Atisha Centre.

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.” (http://bit.ly/MahamudraFPMTShop)

Lama Yeshe’s famous teaching style is fully present in this book, according to the book’s editor, Ven. Robina Courtin: “His words are not only experiential but also direct, funny, deceptively simple, and incredibly encouraging—enlightenment seems possible.” (from the FPMT website http://bit.ly/Mahamudra1)

9 round breathing meditation (5:28)

How our mind shapes our physical world (13:22)

The two truths: conventional and ultimate truth (21:30)

"There's nothing wrong with your heart dear, it's just your behaviour!"(24:59)

It's bad enough that things appear to us as self-existent...the killer is that we believe it! (34:55)

Generally, there are three levels of Dependant Arising (38:23)

Most of the time we are not even getting things accurate *conventionally* (41:23)

Defining what *is* existent (43:13)

Grasping at a fantasy "I"; an analysis (46:49)

How to avoid falling into "the abyss of the great mistake!" (59:02)

Getting on the right track; the two truths go together, they don't contradict.(1:01:16)

*** May anyone who sees, hears, thinks of, remembers or has anything to do with even a moment of these teachings, create the causes for enlightenment within their mindstream. The merit created through the uploading and accessing, viewing, listening to or remembering of these teachings is dedicated to the long life and continued teaching of all teachers of the Mahayana, to the immediate rebirth of Judy and all those beings who have recently died into Amitabha’s pure realm, to the benefit of the people whose names were added to the dedication list during the weekend course and to all beings in all the six realms.