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![]() Instructions for beginning the practices are available on the Internet in most of the major European languages, and we provide links to them on this page. On a separate page you can find a brief introduction to Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the Sixteenth Karmapa, who joined together his deep insight into our Western minds and his profound understanding of the Dharma, and gave us these practices -- inviting us to join our minds with his.
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![]() The main introductory practice given by H. H. Karmapa to his Western students is the Guru Yoga Meditation of the 16th Karmapa. One can begin this practice immediately, or one can begin with one of the simpler practices, the Rainbow Light Meditation or the Meditation on Light and Breath. Meditations for children are available as well.
Guru Yoga Meditation of the 16th Karmapa
Guru Yoga is known as the axle of the vehicle that takes us to enlightenment. Most Tibetan Buddhists do Guru Yoga practice every day at the beginning of their meditation. The practice fosters perception of one's own mind as indivisible from the nature of the Guru's mind. In this simplified form of the practice, the guru (lama) is His Holiness, the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. It is said that the benefits of doing this
practice are
immeasurable. Lama Ole Nydahl,
who was entrusted by Karmapa with bringing this practice to Western
people,
sums it up like this: "I know of no more effective meditation."
Diamond Way Buddhist Centers
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The Rainbow Light Meditation, the Meditation on Light and Breath, and the meditations for children are not normally done as group practices at Diamond Way centers, but instructions and practice texts are available at centers around the world. for instruction and practice texts ![]() |
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