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Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness

By: Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, Lama Shenpen Hookham - translator
Narrated by: Ken Cohen
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This new edition of Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche's classic teaching on progressive stages of meditation on emptiness was updated in 2016 by Lama Shenpen Hookham.

Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness is a series of meditation practices on Emptiness, a particular aspect of the Buddha's teachings. The idea is that by beginning with one's first rather coarse commonsense understanding, one progresses through increasingly subtle and more refined stages until one arrives at complete and perfect understanding. Each stage in the process prepares the mind for the next in so far as each step is fully integrated into one's understanding through the meditation process.

Concise but comprehensive, Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness lays out in a practical and systematic way the teachings of the Venerable Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, one of the most erudite scholars and accomplished yogis of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism of our day. Khenpo Rinpoche is especially well-known for his breadth of vision and the clarity of his Dharma expositions, uniting prodigious scholarship with great compassion.

Lama Shenpen Hookham, translator and arranger of Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness, has been a student of Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche since the 1970s. A prolific writer, translator, and teacher, she is the founding lama of the Awakened Heart Sangha, a worldwide spiritual community based in the UK.

©2016 Shenpen Hookham and The Marpa Foundation for the Study, Practice, and Support of the Buddha Dharma (P)2017 Ken Cohen Alternative & Complementary Medicine Buddhism Meditation Mindfulness

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What Dharma Teachers Are Saying About the 2016 Edition

“The Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness is a signature teaching and systematic method of instruction taught by my amazing guru, Khenchen Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. Profound and concise, it is a transformative way for sincere students at any level of study to connect with the experience of shunyata. Lama Shenpen Hookham's skillful presentation of Rinpoche's teaching on these progressive stages so many years ago has been a great and enduring gift to the dharma world. I am delighted by this revised edition, which will benefit all who take its pithy wisdom to heart” - Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

“Khenpo Rinpoche’s text, expertly translated and arranged by Lama Shenpen Hookham, is an eminently practical tool to familiarize ourselves with the notoriously difficult Buddhist notion of emptiness through a gradual approach and make it a personal experience in all its facets” - Karl Brunnholzl

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Can be a little hard to follow not knowing all terminology but I wouldn't trade anything for the clarity that I've gotten.

Just what I needed when I need it

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Rarely do we seekers come across this calibre of teaching every nuance one could anticipate through the process of purification of our conceptualisations.
Highly referenced, you could also try out other lineages of instructions to experience for your Self (no pun intended) the difference in Self-less-emptiness and true reality (which is none) but yet a knowing that cannot be conceptualised but experienced. And the ability to reactivate that experience at will, until on habitualises the highest state and the body and mind remains grounded there as do the Masters of these teachings.

I have only read once and these are instructions that can be practiced so will be listening again repeatedly.

For those of us who have noted that we all have Buddha's potential intrinsically may listen to the absolute levels and how to recognise them - an perhaps flash back to a moment where we glimpsed the absolute because the conditions were all in place.

Here, we can systemically recreate the right conditions of meditation on emptiness and absolute truth.

it is very well written and the narration excellent. I slow down speed to 60% to appreciate and learn the Tibetan words and better follow along the intricacies of these instructions.

A Rare Find

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While this audiobook may be deep in areas it is a sheer delight to listen to. I re listen, even make the speaker a tad slower as the teachings are somewhat a bit speedy for me. Great idea that slowing talk speed option. There is so much detail and explanation in this book. For those who want to get the most out of meditation this is a true gem.

Profound teaching

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The author gradually introduces you to emptiness in an easy to understand format which was much easier for me than other texts

Enlightening

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Good for contemplating emptiness, while meditating or being mindful in presence. It can help break down the conception of truly existing reality.

Good Contemplation

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