Mahamudra: How to Discover Our True Nature
Relish these direct, experiential meditation instructions from the author of the bestselling Introduction to Tantra.

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, with subtle awareness, 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.
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Mahamudra: How to Discover Our True Nature
Relish these direct, experiential meditation instructions from the author of the bestselling Introduction to Tantra.

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, with subtle awareness, 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.
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Mahamudra: How to Discover Our True Nature

Mahamudra: How to Discover Our True Nature

by Lama Yeshe
Mahamudra: How to Discover Our True Nature

Mahamudra: How to Discover Our True Nature

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Relish these direct, experiential meditation instructions from the author of the bestselling Introduction to Tantra.

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, with subtle awareness, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781614293958
Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA
Publication date: 09/25/2018
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935–84) was born in Tibet and educated at the great Sera Monastic University. He fled the Chinese occupation of his country in 1959. In the late 1960s, with his chief disciple Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, he began teaching Buddhism to Westerners at Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal. In 1975 they founded the international Buddhist organization the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), which now has more than 160 centers, projects, and services worldwide.


Ordained since the late 1970s, Ven. Robina Courtin has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s FPMT. Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism. Her life and work have been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface vii

Part 1 Preparing for Mahamudra

1 Mahamudra Is Beyond Words 3

2 The Lineage of Mahamudra 13

3 The Preliminary Practices 19

Part 2 Practicing Mahamudra

4 First, Bring Your Mind to a Neutral State 31

5 The Benefits of Samadhi Are Incredible 39

6 Before Meditating on Your Mind, Establish What It Is 47

7 Now, Meditate on Your Mind 53

8 Before Meditating on Mahamudra, Establish What Exists and What Doesn't 65

9 Now, Seek the Self and Find Mahamudra 73

10 Finally, Realize the Emptiness of All Phenomena 89

11 A Glimpse of Tantric Mahamudra 95

Part 3 Living with Mahamudra

12 Make Your Human Life Profound 103

Part 4 The Root Text

Highway of the Conquerors: The Mahamudra Root Text of the Precious Gen den Oral Tradition: by the First Panchen Lama Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen 115

Glossary 137

About the Author 151

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