The following was excerpted from Martine Batchelor’s Tricycle Online Retreat “Break Your Addictive Patterns.”

Try to sit stable like a mountain and vast like the ocean. Listen to the sounds as they occur. Do not imagine, name, or analyze the sounds. Just listen with wide-open awareness. Let the sounds come…

Mahamudra, or “great seal,” is a term used in Vajrayana Buddhism to refer to the mark, or nature, of all experience: emptiness. Mahamudra practice is most commonly associated with the Kagyü tradition of Tibet. What follows…