Mindfulness Meditation · Mindfulness
This week’s meditation session is led by Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche and the theme is Mindfulness.
Seated Maitreya Buddha, c. 1400. Western Tibet, Yongle Period (1403-1424). Bronze; overall: 18.6 cm (7 5/16 in.); base: 12.2 cm (4 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1989.364
Seated on a double lotus throne and draped in gorgeously detailed robes, this sculpture of the future Buddha Maitreya from Western Tibet performs the mudra or hand gesture of teaching. He has the classic markings of a Buddha with a large cranial protuberance called an ushinisha, elongated earlobes, and a dot called an urna between his eyes representing the the third eye. This is the eye that represents the true eye of the mind that comprehends reality while being a symbol for our innate ability to be mindful in all things.
Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche was born in 1954 in southern Tibet and fled with his family to Bhutan and India in 1962. Entering a monastery at the age of ten, he was enthroned as a khenpo, or professor, in the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism by Pema Norbu Rinpoche. Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso has received all of the major lineage empowerments and transmissions of the Nyingma School. His open, direct, and thorough style has made him an effective teacher in America, Taiwan, and Chinese communities in Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines.
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