The Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness
A seven-week exploration of the Mahayana Buddhist contemplative tradition of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages.
WMC Intermediate Level Course
Wednesdays 7 – 9 PM
May 21 – July 2, 2025
Online - Zoom Only
Led by Derek Kolleeny and Colleagues
Suggested Offering $108
WMC maintains a policy of making our programs affordable to all. Those with limited income, please note our student/fixed income rate at registration step.
The Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche presents a series of meditation practices on a particular aspect of the Buddha’s teachings. The idea is that by beginning with one’s first rather coarse common-sense understanding, one progresses through increasingly subtle and more refined stages until one arrives at complete and perfect understanding. Each stage in the process prepares the mind for the next in so far as each step is fully integrated into one’s understanding through the meditation process.
“Khenpo Rinpoche’s text, expertly translated and arranged by Lama Shenpen Hookham, is an eminently practical tool to familiarize ourselves with the notoriously difficult Buddhist notion of emptiness through a gradual approach and make it a personal experience in all its facets”
- Karl Brunnholzl
This will be an accessible introduction to the stages of understanding of the nature of reality and how to contemplate and meditate upon those. Each class will consist of meditation, presentation, discussion and a guided contemplation. Based upon the book Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche and translated by Lama Shenpen Hookha - the new edition updated in 2016 by Lama Shenpen Hookham. Please purchase a copy on your own. Classes are recorded, so you can catch up on any you miss, and placed on our website.
We consider this to be an intermediate level course so we recommend the following foundation to those wanting to participate: study of the sourcebooks for WMC’s foundational curriculum known as either The Way of the Buddha or Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha, or a comparable level of study and practice: please consult with the course facilitator using this link.
