How to Meditate on the Lam Rim - with Sangye Khadro

A weekend retreat to deepen your meditation by diving into the practices of the lamrim--the stages of the path to enlightenment.

The Lam Rim (“Stages of the Path”) contains the most important points we need to learn about, understand, and meditate on in order to actualize our Buddha nature, our potential for enlightenment, for the benefit of all beings.

Guided by the person who literally wrote the book on meditation (the international best-seller ‘How to Meditate’), this weekend you’ll learn how to take the next step in our meditation practice: the transformative meditations on the stages to enlightenment.

The whole purpose of meditation is to transform our mind in a constructive way. For this to happen, we need to become so thoroughly familiar with all the meditations that form the path that, with practice, they gradually become our natural way of thinking and living our life.

Venerable Sangye Khadro will explain and take us through meditations on these lamrim topics, such as:

• impermanence
• refuge
• karma
• the four noble truths
• bodhichitta
• wisdom

The weekend retreat offers practical advice, support, and step-by-step guidance on how to meditate on the stages of the path to enlightenment that will transform the practice of new meditators and seasoned practitioners alike. Please see this short video of Sangye Khadro introducing the book this retreat will be based on.

About Venerable Sangye Khadro:

Originally from California, Kathleen McDonald began studying Buddhism with Tibetan lamas in Dharamsala, India, in 1973. She became a nun in Nepal the following year and received the name Sangye Khadro. She received full (bhikshuni) ordination in 1988. At the request of her teachers, she began teaching in 1980, and since then has been teaching Buddhism and meditation in various countries around the world, occasionally taking time off for personal retreats. She served as resident teacher in Buddha House, Australia, for two years and in Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore for eleven years. From 2008 to 2013 she followed the Masters Program at Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Since then she served for seven years as a faculty member of the Human Spirit Psychoanalytic-Buddhist Training Program in Israel, and for a year and a half as the resident teacher at the Center for Wisdom and Compassion in Copenhagen, Denmark. She currently resides at Sravasti Abbey in Washington State, USA, and teaches online.

She is the author of the following books:

• Wholesome Fear
• Awakening the Kind Heart
• How to Meditate
• How to Meditate on the Lam Rim