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    Urban Meditation Skills: How to be a Happy Meditator
    Urban Meditation Skills: How to be a Happy Meditator
    Urban Meditation Skills: How to be a Happy Meditator
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    Urban Meditation Skills: How to be a Happy Meditator

    By Venerable Fedor Stracke

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    Success in meditation is often elusive, even for those of us that have meditated for a long time. It depends a great deal upon the fact that we actually practice meditation, and with a regularity and continuity that cannot be attained through mere discipline alone. We need to have the comfort factor in our practice, and take care that we are a happy meditator.

    To be a happy meditator, it is important that over time the meditation becomes an antidote against disturbing thoughts, because only a lessening of disturbing thoughts can produce the inner happiness that one is looking for. The meditation needs to hit the spot. Otherwise our meditation will drive on one side of the highway, and our delusions happily on the other side of the highway in the other direction, leaning out of the windows, waving and jeering at us.

    This book is made possible by kind supporters of the Archive who, like you, appreciate how we make these teachings freely available in so many ways, including in our website for instant reading, listening or downloading, and as printed and electronic books.

    Our website offers immediate access to thousands of pages of teachings and hundreds of audio recordings by some of the greatest lamas of our time. Our photo gallery and our ever-popular books are also freely accessible there.

    Please help us increase our efforts to spread the Dharma for the happiness and benefit of all beings. You can find out more about becoming a supporter of the Archive and see all we have to offer by visiting our website.

    Thank you so much, and please enjoy this ebook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
    Release dateMar 20, 2015
    ISBN9781891868535
    Urban Meditation Skills: How to be a Happy Meditator
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    Venerable Fedor Stracke

    Ven. Tenzin Fedor was born in 1967 in Germany and has been a Buddhist monk since 1988. He has spent more than ten years in Sera Je Monastic University studying for the esteemed Geshe degree, which he is now close to attaining. He was one of the founders and the first director of Sera Je IMI house, a complex especially built for the Western monks studying at the monastery. During his time in India he also attended many of the public teachings given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects in both Dharamsala and south India. Ven Fedor has been teaching in FPMT centers since 1988 and from 1996 has also served as Tibetan interpretor for various FPMT and non-FPMT geshes.

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      Urban Meditation Skills - Venerable Fedor Stracke

      URBAN MEDITATION SKILLS

      How To Be A Happy Meditator

      Venerable Fedor Stracke

      May whoever sees, touches, reads, remembers, or talks or thinks about these books never be reborn in unfortunate circumstances, receive only rebirths in situations conducive to the perfect practice of Dharma, meet only perfectly qualified spiritual guides, quickly develop bodhicitta and immediately attain enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings.

      Published for Happy Monks Publication

      by Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive

      Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive • Boston

      www.LamaYeshe.com

      A non-profit charitable organization for the benefit of all sentient beings and an affiliate of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition

      www.fpmt.org

      Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive

      PO Box 636, Lincoln, MA 01773, USA

      Ebook ISBN 978-1-891868-53-5

      UMS-2015-v2

      Copyright 2006 Fedor Stracke

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system or technologies now know or later developed, without permission in writing from Fedor Stracke.

      The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive

      Bringing you the teachings of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche

      This book is made possible by kind supporters of the Archive who, like you, appreciate how we make these teachings freely available in so many ways, including in our website for instant reading, listening or downloading, and as printed and electronic books.

      Our website offers immediate access to thousands of pages of teachings and hundreds of audio recordings by some of the greatest lamas of our time. Our photo gallery and our ever-popular books are also freely accessible there.

      Please help us increase our efforts to spread the Dharma for the happiness and benefit of all beings. You can find out more about becoming a supporter of the Archive and see all we have to offer by visiting our website at www.LamaYeshe.com.

      Thank you so much, and please enjoy this e-book.

      About Happy Monks Publication

      Happy Monks Publication offers free Buddhist dharma translations, compilations and compositions in the tradition of Nagarjuna, Asanga and Lama Tsong Khapa. We try to make traditional dharma texts and dharma information available to the modern reader.

      "Jampel, if listening to this enumeration of dharma with doubt generates more merit than a bodhisattva lacking skillful means practicing the six perfections for one hundred thousand eons, what need is there to mention the listening without doubt? What need is there to also mention writing, transmitting verbally, explaining and showing it to others in an

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