Heart Awakening Retreat: Meditation with H.E. Garchen Rinpoche

A meditation session from the Heart Awakening Retreat, run online by the Garchen Buddhist Institute. Garchen Rinpoche speaks in Tibetan with a translator giving the English aloud. Prayers open the session, then he says to look at the nature of the mind, on the foundation of immeasurable love, which he calls the actual refuge.

He draws on Milarepa and Longchenpa to say that recognising the natural state is the highest learning, then explains how to recognise thoughts and let them dissolve, and to bring this into daily life. A line from the Samantabhadra prayer leads into the non-dual mind. A long period of sitting follows with little speech, and prayers close the session.