Simple Guided Meditation on the Breath
A brief teaching on breath meditation including instructions and a guided meditation.
Mind Cannot Sit on a Couch
A short excerpt of a teaching during Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche’s spring 2013 trip to Vancouver, B.C.
What Is Meditation? Part 3: Pristine Mind Meditation
What is Meditation? [Part 3 of 3] In this video, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche discusses how Pristine Mind meditation is different from Calm Abiding meditation, sometimes known as Mindfulness or Shamata meditation. For a summary and links to Parts 1 and 2 of this...
What Is Meditation? Part 1: More Than Resting
What is Meditation? [Part 1 of 3] In this short talk, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche discusses the importance of understanding what we mean by meditation. For Part 2 click here.
Creating a True Comfort Zone
All distractions, preoccupations, fascinations, and forms of entertainment give us the feeling of creating a comfort zone. They are attempts to temporarily distract ourselves from an underlying feeling of loneliness, isolation, and emptiness. But when we always...