Dharma Teachings By Lama Mark Webber

Lama Mark Webber gave teachings and instructions on a key point of Dharma practice; how to overcome afflictive emotions and thoughts through bodhicitta. Lama Mark began the retreat by explaining relative and ultimate bodhicitta (the mind of enlightenment). He taught classic Buddhist meditations on loving-kindness, relative and transcendent compassion, antidotes and paths, as taught in the Buddha's three cycles of Dharma. The Lama also gave the transmission, explanations and a session of Tonglen practice (sending and receiving), a profound bodhicitta meditation by the 12th century Tibetan Lama Chekawa Yeshe Dorje. Lama Mark read verses, with some commentary from Khunu Gyaltsen Rinpoche's (20th cent.) text, The Jewel Lamp; verses in praise of bodhicitta. He introduced participants to consider, reflect and meditate on being able to distinguish between the natural quality of unobstructed, natural and compassionate awareness-bodhicitta and the waves of turbulence, emotions and attachments that appear to obscure t

Lama Mark Webber gave teachings and instructions on a key point of Dharma practice; how to overcome afflictive emotions and thoughts through bodhicitta. Lama Mark began the retreat by explaining relative and ultimate bodhicitta (the mind of enlightenment). He taught classic Buddhist meditations on loving-kindness, relative and transcendent compassion, antidotes and paths, as taught in the Buddha's three cycles of Dharma. The Lama also gave the transmission, explanations and a session of Tonglen practice (sending and receiving), a profound bodhicitta meditation by the 12th century Tibetan Lama Chekawa Yeshe Dorje. Lama Mark read verses, with some commentary from Khunu Gyaltsen Rinpoche's (20th cent.) text, The Jewel Lamp; verses in praise of bodhicitta. He introduced participants to consider, reflect and meditate on being able to distinguish between the natural quality of unobstructed, natural and compassionate awareness-bodhicitta and the waves of turbulence, emotions and attachments that appear to obscure t

February 13th, 2018: The Preliminary Liberating Instructions - understanding the practices and contemplations At Glentui Meadows, Canterbury, New Zealand Near the end of the retreat, "Tranquility and Dzogchen" held in Canterbury, New Zealand, Lama Mark gave a reading transmission of The Preliminary Liberating Instructions of the Drikung Gonpo Yangzab lineage. In this two-part recording, Lama Mark gives instructions and explanations about the Common Foundations, Taking Refuge, Generating Bodhicitta, Mandala Offering and Guru Yoga. He kindly received this transmission and detailed explanations from Drikung Lho Ontul Rinpoche.

February 13th, 2018: The Preliminary Liberating Instructions - understanding the practices and contemplations At Glentui Meadows, Canterbury, New Zealand Near the end of the retreat, "Tranquility and Dzogchen" held in Canterbury, New Zealand, Lama Mark gave a reading transmission of The Preliminary Liberating Instructions of the Drikung Gonpo Yangzab lineage. In this two-part recording, Lama Mark gives instructions and explanations about the Common Foundations, Taking Refuge, Generating Bodhicitta, Mandala Offering and Guru Yoga. He kindly received this transmission and detailed explanations from Drikung Lho Ontul Rinpoche.

Following a reading transmission the previous week, Lama Mark Webber reads and gives commentary on a few pages of verses from Khunu Lama Gyaltsen's 1959 text called The Jewel Lamp, published by Wisdom as Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea: A Praise of Bodhicitta. It is 356 verses expressing the boundless scope of Bodhicitta. Then, Lama Mark read and gave commentary on ten points of advice of "the ten kinds of waste" from Gampopa's text called Precious Garland of the Sublime Path. Further into the class, Lama Mark describes the details and meaning of the Drikung Yangzab Dzogchen Refuge Tree from the perspective of the outer, inner, secret and suchness levels of Refuge and Bodhicitta. This led him to give essence advise - from the perspective of Vajrayana - regarding the vitality and importance of the generation and completion stage practices and their inseparability.

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

Generation and Completion Phases and the Five Fold Mahamudra in Tantric Practice. Dharma Centre of Canada, October 14, 2016. This is an excerpt from a talk Lama Mark gave concerning some essential points about the purpose of Generation and Completion Stages and the Five-Fold Mahamudra in Tantric practice. He talks about: grasping after identity and becoming; relating to the Guru; the four Buddha Activities; the five aggregates and five Buddha wisdoms; and many psychological aspects of Tantric practice. Given at the end of a week’s teaching that also included the Empowerment and group meditation of White Manjusri, the daily group practice of the Drikung Yangzab Amulet of the Sun and Moon and finishing with the Empowerment of Guru Rinpoche-in the form of Kalden Drenze.

January 12, 13, 2017 — Bodhicitta: its essence, generation and practice. Three Dharma talks at Pema Tamdrin Ling Buddhist Centre, Burnaby, British Columbia. Lama Mark Webber gave three talks on the nature, generation and practice of Bodhicitta. The main text used was the eight lines on generating Bodhicitta from the Preliminary Liberating Instructions of the Drikung Gonpo Yangzab lineage. The Lama’s emphasis was in explaining this profound prayer and contemplation, especially the meaning and importance of the phrase; luminously clear vajra essence (ösel dorje nyingpo).

January 12, 13, 2017 — Bodhicitta: its essence, generation and practice. Three Dharma talks at Pema Tamdrin Ling Buddhist Centre, Burnaby, British Columbia. Lama Mark Webber gave three talks on the nature, generation and practice of Bodhicitta. The main text used was the eight lines on generating Bodhicitta from the Preliminary Liberating Instructions of the Drikung Gonpo Yangzab lineage. The Lama’s emphasis was in explaining this profound prayer and contemplation, especially the meaning and importance of the phrase; luminously clear vajra essence (ösel dorje nyingpo).

January 12, 13, 2017 — Bodhicitta: its essence, generation and practice. Three Dharma talks at Pema Tamdrin Ling Buddhist Centre, Burnaby, British Columbia. Lama Mark Webber gave three talks on the nature, generation and practice of Bodhicitta. The main text used was the eight lines on generating Bodhicitta from the Preliminary Liberating Instructions of the Drikung Gonpo Yangzab lineage. The Lama’s emphasis was in explaining this profound prayer and contemplation, especially the meaning and importance of the phrase; luminously clear vajra essence (ösel dorje nyingpo).

Discovering Mind’s Nature: The Heart of Buddhism. A Dharma Talk given to the students in Religious Studies course Rels 223: Buddhism, at Queens University,Kingston, Ontario, October 17, 2016. By Lama Mark Webber Lama Mark Webber was requested by Dr. Ellen Goldberg to give a Dharma Talk to her students in Buddhism: Rels 223. In the class Lama Mark briefly talks about the importance of starting with a very high aspiration of Bodhicitta and Refuge, how he came to study, practice and teach the Dharma, and the foundations of the Path, including why and how we have anxiety, dis-ease, and suffer. Then he shows that all experience, happy or sad, is conceptually built and can only be experienced by mind. Lama Mark points out, by having the students look directly at their experience and the space of the mind, that mind’s innate nature is empty of all suffering, confusion, and clinging. It’s nature is unobstructed, unfixed, and pervaded by love and compassion. This inexpressible nature is emptiness (shunyata). He empha

Four talks on the 4 Noble Truths, the Heart Sutra, Emptiness and the 5 Skandhas.

Four talks on the 4 Noble Truths, the Heart Sutra, Emptiness and the 5 Skandhas.

Four talks on the 4 Noble Truths, the Heart Sutra, Emptiness and the 5 Skandhas.