Gaylon Ferguson explains that through both shamatha and vipashyana meditation we bring our mind back to its original state.
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The Unseen World
Lama Tsultrim Allione, Rob Preece, and Acharya Gaylon Ferguson discuss their individual relationships with nonmaterial realized beings and the purpose of including them in your practice.
Mindfulness and the Buddha’s Eightfold Path
To understand how to practice mindfulness in daily life, says Gaylon Ferguson, we have to look at all eight steps of the Buddha’s noble eightfold path.
Breathing Lessons
Four teachers compare breath practices in yoga and three schools of Buddhism—Theravada, Zen, and Tibetan Buddhism.
How Your Mind Works
We assemble the thing we call “self” ourselves, according to Buddhist psychology. Gaylon Ferguson breaks down the five-step process of ego development.
Is Meditation Enough?
Photo by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.Sharon Salzberg, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, and Gaylon Ferguson examine the central role of meditation in Western Buddhism and explore how other practices, such as study and ritual, may or may not be necessary. With introduction by Norman Fischer.
Gods & Kings for Modern Times
A review of All Things Shining and To Uphold the World by Gaylon Ferguson.
Happy Together
When we stop focusing on ourselves, says Gaylon Ferguson, we begin to see that our happiness is dependent on the happiness of all beings.
Was the Buddha an Atheist?
Gaylon Ferguson reviews book on the intersection of Buddhism and Atheism from July 2010.
Extending Our View of Sangha
Gaylon Ferguson on the importance of sangha communities in the Buddhist tradition.