Sit Like a Buddha

Believe what you’ve heard about meditation: it will focus your mind, open your heart, and sometimes surprise you with insight. And it’s not as difficult to learn as you might have thought. In this course, meditation teacher and Shambhala Publications author Lodro Rinzler guides you through everything you need to establish a meditation practice. You will begin by focusing on why you’re practicing and then will learn the basics of how to meditate. You’ll learn simple tips for how to get a steady meditation practice going in your own home. You’ll examine how the tools of mindfulness and awareness can help you navigate the three main obstacles to meditation: laziness, speedy busyness, and disheartenment. You’ll learn how to work with emotions when they arise, both on and off the meditation cushion. And you’ll explore the concept of peaceful abiding that is the core of our being: our “buddha nature.” The course concludes with an exploration of what it means to expand the practice beyond the cushion into the world.