Cultivating Awareness:
Express Meditations on Mind and Mental Factors
with Venerable Losang Gendun
Explore the Buddhist understanding of mind and mental factors—the building blocks of all our experience—through these short, guided meditations, designed to complement the four-week series The Meditator’s Map: Illuminating Mind and Mental Factors. These Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning meditations allow you to integrate the material explored in the Monday evening teachings directly into your own contemplative practice.
Witness firsthand how consciousness arises moment by moment, shaped by ever-changing mental factors such as attention, intention, mindfulness, and feeling. By learning to recognize these inner processes, we gain the possibility to transform them—fostering clarity, emotional balance, and genuine insight.
Understanding the mind in this way is not only foundational for meditation; it is also the first step toward realizing emptiness and developing a more compassionate, wise relationship with ourselves and others.
About the Teacher
Venerable Losang Gendun has spent nearly four decades in Buddhist practice, and has been living as a fully ordained gelong in the Tibetan tradition for the past twenty years. His training spans ten years of monastic study across France, India, Nepal, and Myanmar, and more than four years in solitary retreat in the Tibetan Mahayana and the Burmese Theravāda traditions.
For the past eighteen years he has taught Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and meditation worldwide within FPMT, serving the vision of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In 2023, as a gesture of gratitude to his teachers, he founded The Buddha Project (TBP), offering long-term guidance for serious meditators. TBP webpages serve as the online learning platform for its core programs, the FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training and the FPMT Ngondro Lamrim Training.
