Four Great Preliminary Guides

On this course, Gen Nyingpo will explain the practice of the preliminary guides, which are essential for successful meditation and the attainment of lasting and stable meditation experience.

Everyone is welcome to attend this course.

“Buddha taught many different meditations. The realizations attained through these meditations are the path to liberation. Liberation from suffering therefore depends upon making progress in meditation, and progress in meditation depends upon engaging sincerely in preliminary practices. Buddha taught four principal preliminary practices. These are normally called the ‘four great guides’ because they are the methods by which we are guided into the actual path to liberation. Meditation itself is like the main body, and the four great guides are like four limbs; just as without limbs our body cannot move and function, so without preliminary practices meditation alone cannot work.” Geshe Kelsang Gyatso