Retreat Meditations for Perfection with Lama Cindy Lee

In January 2011, Lama Marut led a retreat on “The Perfection of Wisdom” at the sacred site of Borobudur in Java, Indonesia. The Perfection of Wisdom refers to the sixth perfection (paramita) - or “perfection-izer” - that one tries to cultivate as a bodhisattva. A bodhisattva can be described as someone who has an awakening mind, a mind that is awakening to reality – the way things truly exist.

In this audio teaching, Lama Cindy discusses why and how to practice the meditations from their retreat in your own retreat.

Borobudur by AwakeningJournal

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Classics of Yoga Radio

CoY Radio hosts podcasts from the Classics of Yoga Retreat in Lake Tahoe with Lama Marut and guest teachers of the Yoga Studies Institute. The annual retreat offers deep teachings on the classical scriptures of the yoga tradition with translation and commentary by modern masters. Discover what's missing in your yoga and what will complete it.

Four Kinds of Craving

Lama Marut, The Perfection of Wisdom Retreat, Borobudur, Indonesia, Jan. 2011

Stupas at the Borobodur Temple

Lama Marut describes the four types of grasping from the Diamond Cutter Sutra: clinging to pleasurable sensual experiences and objects we desire, grasping to a “self,” holding onto viewpoints, and attaching to morality and religious practices.

FourGraspings by AwakeningJournal  

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