Mindfulness Meditation · Transforming Afflictive Emotions
This week’s meditation session is led by Lama Aria Drolma and the theme is Transforming Afflictive Emotions. The guided meditation begins at 15:30.
Wheel of Life; Tibet or Mongolia; 19th century; Pigments on cloth; Object size: 61 1/2 x 39 1/4 in. (est.)Image size: 45 1/2 x 30 5/8 in. Framed size: 73 1/8 x 46 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.; Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin; C2006.66.131
The Wheel of Life is a Tibetan Buddhist visualization of the human condition and the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth known as samsara. Painted on a striking lapis background, the red, wrathful figure of Yama, the Lord of Death, holds the circle of samsara containing all six realms of existence. He is about to swallow it, reflecting the precarious impermanence of all that exists in these realms.
Lama Aria Drolma is an ordained Buddhist teacher in the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, who has completed over a decade of monastic study and meditation training. She is a graduate of the traditional Tibetan Buddhist retreat program spanning three years and three months, an advanced cloistered meditation training program at Palpung Thubten Choling Monastery, New York.
Lama Aria Drolma teaches worldwide, leading retreats, workshops, and corporate meditation programs and is a popular guest speaker at universities and organizations. She emphasizes Vajrayana Buddhism and Buddhist principles, making them relevant in our everyday lives, helping us to cultivate loving kindness and compassion, and bringing about a transformation of contentment and a genuine sense of well-being.
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