Dorjé Lopön Dr. Lye leads the practice of “Liberative Wisdom”—a vajrayana meditation practice of Mañjusrī, the Buddha of Wisdom. Included with this practice recording is both a teaching and a guided-meditation that incorporates ritual, chanting and silent-contemplation centered on the “wisdom of selflessness.” This practice was recorded at Urban Dharma North Carolina in Asheville, NC, USA.

Samadhi Empowerment is an important way for those who have received vajrayana empowerments to ripen the seeds that were “planted” during those empowerments. This is the practice “path empowerment”—the method of vajrayana empowerment that will purify the four types of obscurations through continually receiving the four empowerments which will ultimately lead to the attaining of the four kāyas of the buddhas. [Note: The traditional pre-requisite for engaging in this practice is to first receive a proper vajrayana empowerment from a qualified source whom one has a connection to and confidence in.]

In this video, Dr. Lye guides us through a meditation of embodying the three deities of the Lotus Family (Amitabha, Avalokita and Guru Rinpoche). On the outer level, one experiences oneself as Guru Rinpoche, whose inner-being is the Lord of Compassion, Avalokita and whose secret-essence is Amitabha.

oṃ āḥ hūṃ
May the sight of the Indestructible Lotus Guru (vajra guru padma) reminds us that we are all “Wish-fulfilling Jewels in Lotuses” (mani padme) and with this realization, achieve (siddhi) the state of the “Deathless Deity!” (amideva)

A guided meditation on “mindfulness of body” in the “flavor” that Dr. Lye often presents this practice: letting body & mind “settle into their own places,” “getting out of the way,” and “trusting in body and mind finding their own places.” Here Dr. Lye particularly focusses on relating to breath—experiencing the arising and ceasing of breath as a property of the body, and using breath to cultivate compassion and kindness. This audio recording is extracted from a “mindfulness of body” retreat program (“In Samsara, It’s Bodies that Wander”) offered at the Ecumenical Buddhist Society of Little Rock, Arkansas USA.

Another “mindfulness of body” guided meditation by Dr. Lye from the same retreat offered virtually, hosted by the Ecumenical Buddhist Society of Little Rock, Arkansas USA. In this audio recording, Dr. Lye begins with a quick overview of cultivating experiencing the body as composed of the four elemental energies—wind, fire, water and earth. You begin by refining your awareness of “being body,” of “body in space“—”can you feel your body touching space?” Dr. Lye asks. This is followed by the use of visualization to experience sequentially the four elemental energies as “heaps” piled up in the four cardinal directions. This method that Dr. Lye shares here is grounded in passages from the Kayagatasati Sutta (providing the doctrinal basis of this method) combined with vajrayana meditation-techniques on the elements drawn from the Five Buddha-families.