Inside this issue...

FEATURE:
Vipashyana: The Mind of Meditation
With this issue, "Deep Insight", Bodhi presents the third installment in its year long consideration of the practice of meditation. Having established a stable shamatha practice, one next enters the practice of vipashyana, or insight meditation. Vipashyana goes beyond the stillness and clarity of shamatha, the essential ground for the arising of vipashyana, and is the vital spark that ignites the fire of wisdom. When realized, this experience eradicates mental afflictions, engenders confidence and serves as an actual remedy for our suffering. Here, we are introduced to this topic by several eminent masters of the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Our fourth and final issue in this series will continue to present the views and methods of vipashyana.

TEACHINGS:

AN INTRODUCTION TO DEEP INSIGHT
by H.H. the 17 Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje
If we can practice calm abiding well, we will be able to suppress the afflictions or set them at some distance. We can also diminish our suffering, sometimes even get rid of it for a while, but the practice of calm abiding will not totally remove it. Deep insight is the remedy that allows us to completely eliminate the afflictions and suffering. 14

PATH OF INSIGHT
by H.E. Gyaltsab Rinpoche
The mind attaches wrong concepts to the self, an illusory idea. This tendency to affirm an ego is imbedded in our mind. Therefore one should conclude in meditation that the self is not the five skandhas. And, the self is not the five senses either. Once one has gained this confidence in the illusory nature of the self, then this understanding is the beginning of vipashyana. 18

ALL THESE FORMS
A Teaching On Guru Rinpoche's Supplication That All Thoughts Be Self- Liberated
by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
When we let the appearances rest without fixating on them as being real, all of the thoughts of there being an actual object out there to perceive and an actual distinct subject perceiving it just dissolve. The thoughts that take the duality of perceived object and perceiving subject to be real dissolve. They are purified. When that happens, everything shines as luminous emptiness, clarity-emptiness. 22

THE ARROW AND THE TARGET
by The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
The whole process boils down to these two fundamental fixations: innate self-clinging and imputed self-clinging. In dealing with these two fixations, we must first recognize what is to be refuted and then refute it with reasoning. Otherwise, as we say in Tibetan, it is like shooting an arrow in the dark. If you shoot an arrow in the dark, you will miss your target and you might even hit an innocent person. 28

NO ROOTS, NO BRANCHES
by Ven. Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
When you arrive at this point of stillness and clarity, you can use your mind in any way you want, and can contemplate and think seriously and deeply. When your mind is peaceful and still, its capacity to analyze and penetrate the true meaning of life increases dramatically. 34

LOOKING AT THE MIND: THE AUTHENTIC DHARMA
by Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
The main point in practicing the dharma is to look at one's own mind. That is the authentic dharma. Why? The point is to remove suffering. The cause of samsara, of suffering, of fear and of all the difficulties encountered is within the mind. 40

SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT

Psychotherapy As An Expression Of The Spiritual Journey Based On The Experience Of Shunyata
by Edward Podvoll, MD
When trained psychotherapists began to experience the deeply personal insights of their meditation practice, it changed their lives. What they were learning turned Western psychology upside down, because they were exposed to a whole new way of seeing mental suffering and mental healing. 6

REGULARS

Teaching Schedule of Ven. Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche 4

Teaching Schedule of The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche 5

Seeds & Sprouts:
THE FOOLISH, TIMID RABBIT as told by Ellen C. Babbitt 10

The Lives of The Karmapas:
THE 4TH KARMAPA, ROLPE DORJE by The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche 17

POEM: HOW DARE YOU 48
by Karl Brunnholzl

Nalanda West Events Calendar 59

Bodhi Directory 64