PRACTICAL MEDITATION Daily Life Applications

There is a great deal of emphasis placed on the need for meditation within the context of Buddhist study and practice. However, this practice of meditation may seem unrelated to the cares and concerns of everyday life. This need not be the case. In fact, meditation and our daily activities can be mutually beneficial if we are aware of how to integrate the two. During the sumer of 1980, Geshe Rabten gave a series of talks in then Tharpa Choeling concerning the way in which we can develop a practice utilizing both formal meditation sittings, and everyday activities to evolve a balanced, practical and satisfying lifestyle. Gehse presents in a clear and easily understandable way some of the essential factors involved in this transformation. It was with the intention of preserving the quality of an oral teaching that the translator has retained that format in preparing the text. Brian Grabia (Jelong Jhampa Yeshe) Hamburg 1981