Sunlight on Shadows


Meditations from the Book


PRINTABLE MEDITATIONS

Click on the title of a meditation in the list below to open a printable PDF of that meditation.


 

1: Reflecting On Our Lives

2: I, Me, Mine

3: A Daily Practice of Pure Motivation

4: Reviewing Teachings on Pure Motivation

5: Just Like Me

6: Cultivating Bodhicitta

7: Practicing Pure Motivation

8: Practicing Bodhicitta in Daily Life

9: Mirror of the Mind

10: Creating Merit

11: The Effects of Gathering or Depleting Merit

12: Dedication of Merit

13: Alternating Contemplation with Rest

14: The Benefits of Formal and Informal Practice

15: The Four Powers of Purification

16: The Causes of Happiness and Sorrow

17: Impermanence

18: The Rate of Change

19: Transforming Fear

20: Alternating the Investigation of Emotions with Rest

21: Alternating Exploring the Nature of Emotions with Rest

22: Alternating Meditation with Prayer to Transform Our Emotions

23: Examining the Nature of Fear

24: The Consequences of Anger

25: Exploring the Nature of Anger

26: Transforming Judgment and Aversion through Alternating Meditation

27: Cultivating the Four Immeasurable Qualities

28: Practicing the Four Immeasurable Qualities in Daily Life

29: Alternating Meditation on Loving Kindness

30: Transforming Fear with Love

31: Alternating Meditation on Compassion

32: Expanding Alternating Meditation on Compassion

33: Generating Compassion for Those We Feel Aversion Toward

34: Tonglen Meditation

35: A Concise Tonglen Practice

36: Tonglen Meditation in the ICU

37: A Concise Alternating Tonglen Practice

38: Transforming Mind’s Poisons through Tonglen

39: Rejoicing Meditation

40: Rejoicing Meditation in Daily Life

41: Recognizing All Beings as our Mother

42: Combining Three Equanimity Meditations

43: Trying to Find Our True Nature

44: Meditation on the Movie of Our Life

45: Meditating with Metaphors for Illusion

46: Daily Life Practice

47: Meditation on Boundaries with Bodhicitta

48: Finding Rest within the Three Spheres

49: Watching Ourselves in our Own Movie


STUDY & PRACTICE GROUPS

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