Ending Where We Began: Equanimity Permeated With Loving Kindness
This afternoon may be the last podcast episode of Alan's lectures for this retreat. He started by returning to the hypothesis of saying that...
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Alan Wallace Live from Phuket!
Welcome! This is now an archive page for Dr. Alan Wallace’s teachings from the Spring 2010 Shamatha Retreat in the wonderful Phuket International Academy Mind Centre!This podcast feed was 10...
Episodes
20 of 106 episodesThe Last Shamatha Practice
I know, I am quite the dramatic with my titles :) With a bittersweet feeling we have come to the last group practice of Shamatha for this re...
Equanimity: Looking Ahead
This afternoon Alan started by sharing a story about his first meditation counsel with Geshe Rabten, and the two topics that he suggested fo...
Of Trust, Devotion, or Lack Thereof (+ Awareness of Awareness Practice)
This morning Alan starts by giving instructions on how to watch the opening game of the World Cup (Mexico-South Africa) on Friday, after bei...
Awareness of Awareness: Emerging through the Clouds of the Dense, Deluded, Compulsive Mind into Clear and Luminous Space
As we approach the end of the retreat, the lectures are getting more and more information packed and so are these summaries. I will say as I...
Empathetic Joy: Using our Mind as a Best Friend (+ great Q&A incl. a deep question about love and attachment).
The story Alan narrates at the very start of this episode comes because there was a dog outside the teaching hall, and as we were coming in...
Awareness of Awareness: A Smooth Transition from the Space of the Mind
This morning, Alan said he would squeeze out every drop of knowledge he had left about this first method of Awareness of Awareness, so if yo...
Compassion: Investigating a Hypothesis about the Very Root of Suffering (and the importance of not taking Dharma out of context)
This afternoon Alan started by pointing out the modern tendency of being very harsh and strict with ourselves, and the need for Compassion....
Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Sustaining a Continuity
This practice got separated from the previous episode for continuity purposes. As you might expect, we return for the final time to the prac...
[Extra Bonus] Culminating in the Great Perfection: The Dzogchen View (Addendum)
In this morning session, Alan really woke us up (interpret that as you will) by making an addendum to this Sunday's bonus episode where we h...
[Bonus] The Philosophical Evolution of an Individual through all the Four Schools of Indian Buddhism, Culminating in the Great Perfection. In 45 minutes.
Yes, this is an ambitious title but as always the podcast episode does not fail to deliver the goods. However, I really won't even try to su...
[Short Bonus]: How did ignorance and delusion arise in the first place? Will samsara end?
For this short bonus episode, I extracted a question that Elizabeth said was maybe unanswerable, about the very beginning of ignorance and d...
Compassion: Freeing Ourselves from the Underlying Causes of Suffering (Attachment/Craving)
In this afternoon practice, we focused not so much on the blatant form of suffering as we did yesterday, but on the underlying causes. In th...
"The Tempest," Settling the Mind in its Natural State
This morning we returned to Settling the Mind in its Natural state, this time observing the foreground of events arising within the domain o...
Compassion: Focusing on the Blatant Suffering
This afternoon we went into a very practical and powerful practice on Compassion, focusing on the blatant, glaring, obvious pain that can ar...
Settling the Mind In its Natural State: Exploring Conceptually Unmediated Experience
If you have been subscribing to the podcast, you are probably very familiar with today's meditation. We practiced Settling the Mind in its N...
Loving Kindness: Weaving the Present into the Future (+ Bodhicitta Discussion)
The introduction to today's practice was tailored to us here in Phuket in the sense that we are coming out of retreat soon, but it can be ap...
Mindfulness of Breathing: Practicing with the "glass half full" attitude
In today's mindfulness of breathing practice, Alan started by talking about the causes and solutions for the all too popular phenomenon of t...
Opening the floodgates of our inner virtues ( + Loving Kindness practice)
This afternoon we started with a reflection on how many times we see people as just "flat images" or appearances arising to our minds. In th...
Finding the balance between relaxation and effort (+ Breath Awareness practice)
This morning, Alan started by reading two short verses from the Dhammapada, (freshly translated by him last night) which are a very strong m...