Green Wisdom Light Meditation

The Green Wisdom Light Practice is the primary meditation that Rinpoche bestows. It is a meditation specifically intended to teach deep levels of transformative compassion. The Green Wisdom Light meditation is a unique practice that has been adapted from the Tibetan tradition to avoid the misunderstandings Westerners commonly experience when doing visualization practices. People find this meditation to be very powerful because it provides a more direct experience of compassion. It is different from mindfulness meditation practice in that it is an active meditation.

Mindfulness meditation is a passive observation of the mind, and it has an important place in learning what we really think and how our ordinary mind works. By contrast, in active meditation, we practice arising and holding specific virtuous states of mind, such as compassion. Through this practice of arising states of mind intentionally, we gain skill at maintaining virtue and happiness rather than being ‘at the mercy’ of whatever is ‘thrown at us’ in life. Enlightened beings can control their own mind. This only occurs through practice.

Key ingredients of the majority of Tibetan meditations are included in the Green Wisdom Light Meditation:

• Refuge and Bodhichitta vows
• Four Great Wishes – Contemplation on four wishes that transform the heart. Rinpoche has taught on these extensively.
• Seven Limb Prayer  – Prepares the mind to be taught through arising the following specific virtuous intentions:
  • Prostration
  • Making offerings
  • Confession
  • Rejoicing in virtue
  • Requesting the Buddhas to remain
  • Requesting the Buddhas to teach dharma
  • Dedicating virtue for the enlightenment of all beings

The Green Wisdom Light Set of empowerments, usually given at retreat, includes permission to engage in the following meditation practices:

1. Green Wisdom Light
2. White Tara Practice
3. Medicine Buddha
4. Buddha Shakymuni (the historical Buddha)

For more information on receiving The Green Wisdom Light meditation please see Becoming A Student.

Purification Practices:

Rinpoche also offers an array of purification practices:

• Mantra Commitment to steady the mind, build merit, and purify
• Mandala Offerings to build merit and purify our world view
• Rainbow Light Energy Channel Purification
• Pranayama Breathing to calm the mind
• Vajrasattva Purification or 100 syllable mantra to remove errors and remedy mistakes
• Bodhisattiva’s Confession of Downfalls / 35 Buddhas of Confession
• Chöd Practice for deep inner healing and healing of traumas

Other Meditation Practices Offered:

The following meditation practices require an empowerment bestowal before one can begin. This is usually done at a group retreat.

• Buddha Shakyamuni
• White Tara ~ a long life practice to return life energy that one has lost or wasted
• Medicine Buddha for healing and healers
• Chenrezig, Buddha of Compassion ~4 Armed and 1000 Hand versions
• Green Tara, Buddha of Enlightened Activity
• 21 Taras
• Je Tsongkhapa ~ Founder of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism
• Padmasambhava ~ Guru who brought Vajrayana Buddhism to Tibet
• Guru Puja and Tsok
• Vajrasattva, Buddha of Purification
• Chod Practice for Deep Inner Healing
• Manjushri, Buddha of Wisdom with seven wisdoms
• Heruka Chakrasamvara
• Vajrayogini, Wisdom Dakini Buddha
• Chittamani Tara
• Nightingale Song

Rinpoche also provides other practices tailored to the needs of students when indicated.

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