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Volume 25, Number 2
Spring 2011
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 | Transmission and Integration
An Interview with Anne Carolyn Klein/Rigzin Drolma
Jeff Cox: How do Tibetan ritual practices transmit the power of the Vajrayana tradition?
Anne Rigzin Drolma: One way this is evident is in the practices themselves. In creating rituals, people like Longchenpa and Jigme Lingpa pulled together many human dimensions and incorporated them into the practices. In contrast
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|  | Zoning Out or Ruminating in Meditation?
Simple Visualizations for Getting Back on Track When we meditate, we may experience sleepiness or torpor or—conversely—agitated thoughts. Thrangu Rinpoche offers two visualization exercises to combat these states.
In the center of your body, at the level of the heart, you visualize a four-petaled white lotus, and resting on the center of that lotus flower, you visualize
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|  | If This Were Your Last Day...
adapted from Into the Heart of Life by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
We don't know when we are going to die. Every breath we take could be our last breath: we don't know. When we wake up in the morning, we should say, "How amazing that I didn't die during the night," and when we go to sleep at night, we should say, "How amazing that I lasted this whole day and I haven't died yet." Who knows when
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|  | Maintaining Sanity
adapted from Minding Closely by B. Alan Wallace
The practice of mindfulness is deceptively simple—but not easy to do properly. This method is a direct remedy for the broadly endemic mental imbalance that I call obsessive-compulsive delusional disorder (OCDD). Obsessive thoughts appear continuously, like water dripping from a leaky faucet. Thoughts arise even when there is nothing in particular to think about
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