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- The Wisdom Experience | Best Buddhist books, courses, & more Explore Books Courses Movies Reading Room Academic Series Lecture Series Videos Dharma Chats Podcast Journal Articles Authors Donate POPULAR CONTENT READ BUY The Jhanas VIEW The Illusory Body and Mind BUY Bearing the Unbearable VIEW Welcome to In-Depth TRENDING SEARCHES Analāyo Alan Wallace Poetry Dzogchen Malcolm Smith Zen Bhikkhu Bodhi Emptiness Theravada Mahamudra Mingyur Rinpoche Grief Dalai Lama Jhanas Type JOIN log in/join Log in Forgot password Join Lama Alan Wallace’s New Course Discover how to intuitively recognize your mind’s essential character under the guidance of this renowned teacher. Learn More May Newsletter We’re excited to share what’s new to the Wisdom Experience this May and hope these resources continue to provide you with moments of inspiration, adventure, and awakening all month long. START EXPLORING New & Featured MEDIA Books Courses Movies Reading Room Lecture Series Podcasts Videos Articles All Media Topics Academic & Translations Classics of Indian Buddhism Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism Teachings of the Buddha (Pali Canon) The American Institute of Buddhist Studies The Khenpo Appey Collection of Sakya Classics The Library of Tibetan Classics Children’s Books Mindfulness Theravada Jhana tradition Meditation Pali Canon Vipassana Tibetan Buddhism Bön Dalai Lama Gelug Kagyu & Mahāmudrā Library of Tibetan Classics Meditation Nyingma & Dzogchen Sakya Zen Classical Zen Dōgen Studies Koans Zen, Chan, & Sŏn All Topics Listen 2 Tim Olmsted: ⁠Spontaneous Teachers, Spontaneous Student (#185) Read 0 May 2024 Member Newsletter read Buy 58 The Jhanas Buy 16 Bearing the Unbearable Buy 40 The Blazing Inner Fire of Bliss and Emptiness read Buy 31 Abiding in Emptiness read Buy 57 Perseverance read Buy 16 Nāgārjuna’s Precious Garland read Buy 18 Saraha’s Spontaneous Songs read Buy 15 Ocean of Attainments read Buy 13 Footprints on the Journey read Buy 22 Buddha’s Words for Tough Times See More 5 Welcome to In-Depth See More 3 The Illusory Body and Mind See More 3 Choepa Karma Wangchuk Lhamo See More 0 Encountering the Mind’s Natural Luminosity Tim Olmsted: ⁠Spontaneous Teachers, Spontaneous Student (#185) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features Tim Olmsted . Tim is the founder and president of the Pema Chödrön Foundation and former director of Gampo Abbey. He began his Buddhist studies in 1977 under the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Boulder, Colorado. In 1981, after being moved by a visit from Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Tim and his family moved to Kathmandu to study with Tulku Urgyen and his sons. For 12 years, Tim lived in Nepal, working as a psychotherapist serving the international community. In 2000, he moved to Nova Scotia where he served for three years as the director of Gampo Abbey, the largest residential Buddhist monastery in North America. He spends much of his time traveling internationally, teaching meditation in his role as a senior instructor for Tergar International, a worldwide meditation community under the guidance of Tibetan meditation teacher, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. In this episode host, Daniel Aitken, and Tim discuss: His journey into the Dharma, including his life in Nepal and his time spent with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and his son; Perfect devotion vs the guru complex; The significance of community; and much more! Mentioned in this episode: Blazing Splendor: The Memoirs of the Dzogchen Yogi Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Tergar.org Vajrayana Online The Joy of Living an online meditation course and training with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Remember to subscribe to the Wisdom Podcast for more great conversations on Buddhism, meditation, and mindfulness. And please gi ve us a 5-star rating in Apple Podcasts if you enjoy our show—it’s a great support to us and helps other people find the podcast. Thank you! Listen 2 May 2024 Member Newsletter Read 0 The Jhanas Experience new levels of joy, calm, and clarity with this revised and enhanced edition of the bestselling Focused and Fearless . The Pāli word jhāna literally means to meditate.” It also refers to a traditional series of states of absorption, each deeper than the last, in which the mind is undistracted by sensation, thoughts, or moods. Shaila Catherine’s friendly, wise approach, blended with contemporary examples and pragmatic how to” instructions that anyone can try, will show meditators (and non-meditators) how to attain these extraordinary states with relative ease. But jhāna practice is about much more than just meditation or concentration; it offers a complete path toward bliss, fearlessness, and true awakening. From the introduction: Jhānas are states of happiness that can radically transform the heart, reshape the mind, imbue consciousness with enduring joy and ease, and provide an inner resource of tranquility that surpasses any conceivable sensory pleasure. Jhānas are states of deep rest, healing rejuvenation, and profound comfort that create a stable platform for transformative insight. In this approach to jhāna, we use the calming aspects of concentration to support the investigative aspects of insight meditation. The fruit of concentration is freedom of heart and mind. This new edition of the meditation classic clarifies crucial points and offers twenty-one additional exercises, making this a great book for both those new to jhāna practice and those looking to deepen their practice. Read Now Buy 58 Bearing the Unbearable In this journaling book, grief expert Joanne Cacciatore provides support and guidance, as writing prompts, for anyone experiencing traumatic loss and grief. This beautifully designed book offers 52 writing prompts for exploring grief and journaling about those whom we’ve lost. Writing about those we’ve lost can be part of a contemplative practice, alone or with therapists, family, friends, or with a grief support group. However you use this journal and its writing prompts, please take the time to write from the heart, really be with each prompt, dive deeply—and do so with a spirit of love and compassion for all beings, including yourself. A Note from Dr. Jo: This journal is an invitation. A passage. An open heart. Use the prompts throughout for deep contemplation. Write your experiences, feelings, memories of your beloved. Know that, wherever you are, you are not alone in this. We grievers, we rememberers, walk the same road, some ahead and some behind. But we walk together. Let this journal be the invisible thread that weaves together our hearts and souls and minds as we endure one more day—together, never alone. Let this journal be a space in which you remember and grieve and explore. You can also explore Dr. Jo’s books, Bearing the Unbearable and Grieving is Loving , her Cards for Bearing the Unbearable , as well her Wisdom Academy course, Bearing the Unbearable . Buy 16 The Blazing Inner Fire of Bliss and Emptiness The Blazing Inner Fire of Bliss and Emptiness presents lucid translations of a pair of detailed commentaries by the famed Tibetan tantric master Ngulchu Dharmabhadra (1772–1851), illuminating a set of extremely secret and restricted tantric practices of highest yoga tantra. The first of these commentaries details the practices of the Six Yogas of Naropa, one of the most celebrated and revered systems of completion-stage practice in Tibet. Dharmabhadra presents the Six Yogas by elaborating upon Lama Tsongkhapa ’s (1357–1419) masterpiece on the subject entitled Endowed with the Three Inspirations , which served as the basis for nearly all subsequent commentaries on the Six Yogas within the Gelug tradition. Ngulchu Dharmabhadra’s commentary is unique in that it presents the Six Yogas within the context of Vajrayogini practice, making this book a perfect companion piece to The Extremely Secret Dakini of Naropa (Wisdom Publications, 2020). Also contained in this book is Ngulchu Dharmabhadra’s lucid and concise commentary on the First Panchen Lama’s (1570–1662)...