Dharma Teachings By Lama Mark Webber

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

May 13-20, 2017 – The Practice Anapanasati (Recollection of Breath), and Tranquility in unfolding the Mahamudra: 7 Dharma Talks at Villa Sumaya, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala During the first week of a two week retreat at Villa Sumaya, Lama Mark Webber teaches traditional tranquility and loving-kindness practices from the tradition of Mahamudra. He also taught on Anapanasati, a classic method using the focus of breath to calm the mind and uncover wisdom. These meditations allowed retreat participants to be in a benevolent state and greater clarity in order to hear, study, and practice the transmission of the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the Dzogchen teaching presented in the second week.

Generation and Completion Phases and the Five Fold Mahamudra in Tantric Practice. Dharma Centre of Canada, October 14, 2016. This is an excerpt from a talk Lama Mark gave concerning some essential points about the purpose of Generation and Completion Stages and the Five-Fold Mahamudra in Tantric practice. He talks about: grasping after identity and becoming; relating to the Guru; the four Buddha Activities; the five aggregates and five Buddha wisdoms; and many psychological aspects of Tantric practice. Given at the end of a week’s teaching that also included the Empowerment and group meditation of White Manjusri, the daily group practice of the Drikung Yangzab Amulet of the Sun and Moon and finishing with the Empowerment of Guru Rinpoche-in the form of Kalden Drenze.

January 12, 13, 2017 — Bodhicitta: its essence, generation and practice. Three Dharma talks at Pema Tamdrin Ling Buddhist Centre, Burnaby, British Columbia. Lama Mark Webber gave three talks on the nature, generation and practice of Bodhicitta. The main text used was the eight lines on generating Bodhicitta from the Preliminary Liberating Instructions of the Drikung Gonpo Yangzab lineage. The Lama’s emphasis was in explaining this profound prayer and contemplation, especially the meaning and importance of the phrase; luminously clear vajra essence (ösel dorje nyingpo).

January 12, 13, 2017 — Bodhicitta: its essence, generation and practice. Three Dharma talks at Pema Tamdrin Ling Buddhist Centre, Burnaby, British Columbia. Lama Mark Webber gave three talks on the nature, generation and practice of Bodhicitta. The main text used was the eight lines on generating Bodhicitta from the Preliminary Liberating Instructions of the Drikung Gonpo Yangzab lineage. The Lama’s emphasis was in explaining this profound prayer and contemplation, especially the meaning and importance of the phrase; luminously clear vajra essence (ösel dorje nyingpo).

January 12, 13, 2017 — Bodhicitta: its essence, generation and practice. Three Dharma talks at Pema Tamdrin Ling Buddhist Centre, Burnaby, British Columbia. Lama Mark Webber gave three talks on the nature, generation and practice of Bodhicitta. The main text used was the eight lines on generating Bodhicitta from the Preliminary Liberating Instructions of the Drikung Gonpo Yangzab lineage. The Lama’s emphasis was in explaining this profound prayer and contemplation, especially the meaning and importance of the phrase; luminously clear vajra essence (ösel dorje nyingpo).

Discovering Mind’s Nature: The Heart of Buddhism. A Dharma Talk given to the students in Religious Studies course Rels 223: Buddhism, at Queens University,Kingston, Ontario, October 17, 2016. By Lama Mark Webber Lama Mark Webber was requested by Dr. Ellen Goldberg to give a Dharma Talk to her students in Buddhism: Rels 223. In the class Lama Mark briefly talks about the importance of starting with a very high aspiration of Bodhicitta and Refuge, how he came to study, practice and teach the Dharma, and the foundations of the Path, including why and how we have anxiety, dis-ease, and suffer. Then he shows that all experience, happy or sad, is conceptually built and can only be experienced by mind. Lama Mark points out, by having the students look directly at their experience and the space of the mind, that mind’s innate nature is empty of all suffering, confusion, and clinging. It’s nature is unobstructed, unfixed, and pervaded by love and compassion. This inexpressible nature is emptiness (shunyata). He empha

The study and meditative practices on karma (causality) are one of the four common foundations practiced in all traditions of Buddhism. These 15 recordings of Lama Mark teaching give detailed meditative instructions and commentary for understanding cause, effect, interdependence and emptiness. Lama Mark taught from the Suttas, Sutras and Tantras - the three cycles of the Buddha’s teachings - a rich offering, to bring retreatants to profound understandings of causality, both relative and Buddha-karma. In addition we were fortunate to receive step by step instructions on meditation from the lineage of Vipassana-Abhidhamma, especially from the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana as passed down from Karma Namgyal Rinpoche to Lama Mark.

The study and meditative practices on karma (causality) are one of the four common foundations practiced in all traditions of Buddhism. These 15 recordings of Lama Mark teaching give detailed meditative instructions and commentary for understanding cause, effect, interdependence and emptiness. Lama Mark taught from the Suttas, Sutras and Tantras - the three cycles of the Buddha’s teachings - a rich offering, to bring retreatants to profound understandings of causality, both relative and Buddha-karma. In addition we were fortunate to receive step by step instructions on meditation from the lineage of Vipassana-Abhidhamma, especially from the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana as passed down from Karma Namgyal Rinpoche to Lama Mark.

The study and meditative practices on karma (causality) are one of the four common foundations practiced in all traditions of Buddhism. These 15 recordings of Lama Mark teaching give detailed meditative instructions and commentary for understanding cause, effect, interdependence and emptiness. Lama Mark taught from the Suttas, Sutras and Tantras - the three cycles of the Buddha’s teachings - a rich offering, to bring retreatants to profound understandings of causality, both relative and Buddha-karma. In addition we were fortunate to receive step by step instructions on meditation from the lineage of Vipassana-Abhidhamma, especially from the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana as passed down from Karma Namgyal Rinpoche to Lama Mark.

The study and meditative practices on karma (causality) are one of the four common foundations practiced in all traditions of Buddhism. These 15 recordings of Lama Mark teaching give detailed meditative instructions and commentary for understanding cause, effect, interdependence and emptiness. Lama Mark taught from the Suttas, Sutras and Tantras - the three cycles of the Buddha’s teachings - a rich offering, to bring retreatants to profound understandings of causality, both relative and Buddha-karma. In addition we were fortunate to receive step by step instructions on meditation from the lineage of Vipassana-Abhidhamma, especially from the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana as passed down from Karma Namgyal Rinpoche to Lama Mark.

The study and meditative practices on karma (causality) are one of the four common foundations practiced in all traditions of Buddhism. These 15 recordings of Lama Mark teaching give detailed meditative instructions and commentary for understanding cause, effect, interdependence and emptiness. Lama Mark taught from the Suttas, Sutras and Tantras - the three cycles of the Buddha’s teachings - a rich offering, to bring retreatants to profound understandings of causality, both relative and Buddha-karma. In addition we were fortunate to receive step by step instructions on meditation from the lineage of Vipassana-Abhidhamma, especially from the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana as passed down from Karma Namgyal Rinpoche to Lama Mark.

The study and meditative practices on karma (causality) are one of the four common foundations practiced in all traditions of Buddhism. These 15 recordings of Lama Mark teaching give detailed meditative instructions and commentary for understanding cause, effect, interdependence and emptiness. Lama Mark taught from the Suttas, Sutras and Tantras - the three cycles of the Buddha’s teachings - a rich offering, to bring retreatants to profound understandings of causality, both relative and Buddha-karma. In addition we were fortunate to receive step by step instructions on meditation from the lineage of Vipassana-Abhidhamma, especially from the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana as passed down from Karma Namgyal Rinpoche to Lama Mark.

The study and meditative practices on karma (causality) are one of the four common foundations practiced in all traditions of Buddhism. These 15 recordings of Lama Mark teaching give detailed meditative instructions and commentary for understanding cause, effect, interdependence and emptiness. Lama Mark taught from the Suttas, Sutras and Tantras - the three cycles of the Buddha’s teachings - a rich offering, to bring retreatants to profound understandings of causality, both relative and Buddha-karma. In addition we were fortunate to receive step by step instructions on meditation from the lineage of Vipassana-Abhidhamma, especially from the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana as passed down from Karma Namgyal Rinpoche to Lama Mark.

The study and meditative practices on karma (causality) are one of the four common foundations practiced in all traditions of Buddhism. These 15 recordings of Lama Mark teaching give detailed meditative instructions and commentary for understanding cause, effect, interdependence and emptiness. Lama Mark taught from the Suttas, Sutras and Tantras - the three cycles of the Buddha’s teachings - a rich offering, to bring retreatants to profound understandings of causality, both relative and Buddha-karma. In addition we were fortunate to receive step by step instructions on meditation from the lineage of Vipassana-Abhidhamma, especially from the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana as passed down from Karma Namgyal Rinpoche to Lama Mark.

The study and meditative practices on karma (causality) are one of the four common foundations practiced in all traditions of Buddhism. These 15 recordings of Lama Mark teaching give detailed meditative instructions and commentary for understanding cause, effect, interdependence and emptiness. Lama Mark taught from the Suttas, Sutras and Tantras - the three cycles of the Buddha’s teachings - a rich offering, to bring retreatants to profound understandings of causality, both relative and Buddha-karma. In addition we were fortunate to receive step by step instructions on meditation from the lineage of Vipassana-Abhidhamma, especially from the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana as passed down from Karma Namgyal Rinpoche to Lama Mark.