Volume 1 Contents

1. Shakyamuni Buddha Meditation (26 minutes)

A meditation designed to help the meditator to remember the importance of the great teacher, the historic Buddha who was called Shakyamuni Buddha, which means teacher from the Shakya Clan. This was the clan to which the Buddha’s family belonged. It helps us to recognize the importance of the spiritual teacher for our spiritual progress.

2. Eight verses of Thought Transformation (19 minutes)

These are very important verses. Many people who have found peace and happiness in their lives have done so with the aid of this meditation. Each verse has a short explanation to assist the meditation. His Holiness the Dalai Lama says that he recites this prayer every day to remind him how to relate to people as he goes about his daily life.

3. The Four Immeasueable Thoughts (16 minutes)

These are four thoughts that we can have in order to benefit all beings: happiness, freedom from suffering, harmonious existence and perfect happiness which comes with enlightenment. As we progress on our journey we try to think of how we can make all beings happy, taking the emphasis away from the self, who is one being, to many, who are without number. This increases harmony in the world and lessons suffering, causing more happiness.

4. Medicine Buddha Practice ( 9 mins)

This short practice was recommended by my precious teacher Lama Zopa Rinpoche. It is especially helpful to say to help those who are suffering and to maintain our health. Medicine Buddha is the healing aspect of the historic Buddha and has eight aspects, each of whom helps with a different health area. Lama Zopa said that by reciting the names of the Buddhas we create much merit. By prostrating as we say the names we purify and by adding the seven limb prayer at the beginning we remember the path that we are on and its stages. A beautiful practice indeed.

Volume 2 Contents

1. The Foundation of all Good Qualities (30 minutes)

This is an important meditation sequentially leading us through the stages on the path to enlightenment. Remember one verse a week and act on it. Then you will notice a change in your life over time.

2. The Heart Sutra (12 minutes)

This is one of the most important teachings. It was delivered at Rajagrivha in India, at the time of the Buddha. It is a teaching on the wisdom of understanding the true nature of phenomena and the changes which occur moment to moment in our environment.

3. Vajrasattva Purification Practice (21 minutes)

It is important that we conclude our day with a purification practice. The negativities of body, speech and mind that we create need to be purified and the opposite positive actions need to become habitual. This will ensure that the negativities will have less impact in the future.

Volume 3 Contents

1. Death Meditation (14 minutes)

Life consists of beginnings and endings and lifetimes in between. We need to enjoy life to ensure that the end of our life is peaceful. Death is the prelude to a new beginning, our next life. Understanding the death process as explained in this meditation is very helpful. This meditation is gentle, sensitive and informative..

2. Continuity of Mind (17 minutes)

In Buddhism we believe that it is the subtle mind that moves from one lifetime to the next .This is an unusual concept for most people and this meditation gives us a tool to investigate the validity of this teaching.

3. Mind as Knower (16 minutes)

A meditation on the role of the mind in our life experience. The joys and problems we experience in this life are the result of the mind, the brain and the senses working together. This is a meditation to help our understanding of this.

4. Spacious Clarity of Mind (14 minutes)

The natural state of the mind is clear and knowing. Most of our minds are clouded by ignorance which is the result of living in the past, which we cannot change or in the future, the nature of which is that our mental projections may or may not happen. We learn from the past and put it into practice in the present. We plan for the future by putting causes and conditions in place in the present but we know our minds to be supple enough not to be too distressed if our plans do not come to fruition.

Volume 4 Contents

1. Green Tara (13 minutes)

Tara represents the feminine aspect of the historic Buddha and is very powerful energy. This energy helps us with health, wealth and relationships. There are 21 aspects to this feminine energy and Green Tara is one of these.

2. Meditation on the Clear and Knowing Nature of Mind (11 minutes)

Mind training is the basis of Buddhist teachings. We have to be in control of our mind and not let it take us where it wants to go. We set up part of our mind as a sentry to watch the thoughts coming up and try to stop those that will cause us problems from becoming action or speech.

3. Meditation on the Breath ( 14 minutes)

The breath is an excellent object for meditation. We have it with us from the moment we are born until we die. We do not need a case to carry with us when we travel it is always with us. For single pointed meditation and bringing the mind to stillness it is a good starting point.

4. Breathing Meditations ( 15 minutes)

A series of meditations which help focus the mind. Find the one you most readily resonate with and use it.

5. Perfect Human Rebirth (17 minutes)

We should rejoice every day that we have not only been fortunate to have a human rebirth this time. With this we have also been able to find the teachings of the Buddha and can access them with the help of our kind teacher. May this meditation help you to appreciate this and come quickly to a state of blssful happiness that we call enlightenment.