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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...
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...
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...
This afternoon Alan started by sharing a story about his first meditation counsel with Geshe Rabten, and the two topics that he suggested fo...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This afternoon Alan started by pointing out the modern tendency of being very harsh and strict with ourselves, and the need for Compassion....
This practice got separated from the previous episode for continuity purposes. As you might expect, we return for the final time to the prac...
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...
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...
For this short bonus episode, I extracted a question that Elizabeth said was maybe unanswerable, about the very beginning of ignorance and d...
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...
This morning we returned to Settling the Mind in its Natural state, this time observing the foreground of events arising within the domain o...
This afternoon we went into a very practical and powerful practice on Compassion, focusing on the blatant, glaring, obvious pain that can ar...
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...
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...
In today's mindfulness of breathing practice, Alan started by talking about the causes and solutions for the all too popular phenomenon of t...
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...
This morning, Alan started by reading two short verses from the Dhammapada, (freshly translated by him last night) which are a very strong m...
The beginning of this afternoon's lecture is a stunning, wisdom-packed reflection on the analysis of our own world view. Alan starts by givi...
I'll try not to title all of the Shamatha episodes from today onwards with the phrase "for the last time," although we have come to the fina...
A number of the past bonus podcasts had been geared towards the physicists, but this weekend we have some juice for psychologists! In this b...
In this bonus episode we cover some very interesting cognitive science/brain science questions from Noah. The first question asks if meditat...
In this afternoon's marvelous introduction, Alan talks about The Great Path of the Bodhisattvas, comparing it to a Freeway (using the Americ...
This afternoon we started with a special guided meditation to commemorate the Buddha's Enlightenment, not specifically centered on Shamatha...
Happy Vesak Day! This morning we conmemorated the celebration of Buddha Śākyamuni's birth, enlightment, and parinirvana with a guided Shamat...
I extracted this practical gem from this afternoon's lecture. It is a clear example of how the instructions to a practice can be profoundly...
Today we went directly into practice, which I removed from the recording to make it easier to listen to. As you know by now, just do your ow...
This morning we had a silent meditation followed by a few brief tips. The tips cover a bit of posture, and then Alan talks about how the ben...
This afternoon we went directly into meditation with no preamble, and had no outro directly pertaining to the meditation. So you can meditat...
This morning Alan suggested to adopt the attitute of starting a 2-week retreat. He humorously gave some very important points and tips about...
In today's lecture, Alan gave a very brief reflection for when we finish this retreat. As we know, the still, sustained focus / samadhi of o...
In this episode, Alan talks about something that probably bothers many of us, and he calls it "A Sacred Tension." It is about our decision t...
This afternoon we started with a very practical introduction on how to draw from the 4I throughout the course of a normal day in our life af...
This morning Alan started by saying that he would like to let us choose our own Shamatha method, for these next few days and perhaps for the...
In this short and sweet sunday bonus, we synthesized the three main methods of Shamatha into one practice. There is an extremely short intro...
This lovely afternoon we went back to the practice of Loving Kindness, using the phrase from T.S. Elliot in the title. We went straight into...
As you can probably tell by the title, today's practice was not you regular 4I practice. Sure, it did start out with a regular equanimity/To...
Alan "kickstarted" this morning [because he likes that word so much ;) ] with a healthy dose of Physics. He started talking about the follow...
This afternoon Alan starts by quite briefly explaining this balance between fluidity and structure in the equanimity practice, and after the...
This morning we return to the third phase in the classic Awareness of Awareness teachings of Padmasambhava. In the introduction, Alan explai...
This afternoon the meditation was 100% silent. Even the introduction lasts around 20 seconds! I cut out the 24 minutes of silence in order t...
Today's practice, the second out of the four Awareness of Awareness methods that we cover in our cycle, is a very deep penetrating practice,...
Alan starts this afternoon by detailing some of the possible "side effects" that could happen during intense practice of Shamatha, in the se...
This morning Alan promptly warned us that he was feeling a little bit feisty, which resulted in a great historical introduction with example...
Today as the title suggests we combined Compassion and Loving kindness into a practice of Tonglen. Furthermore, we incorporated the four mod...
In this morning's introduction, Alan talks about how the mind is very capable of healing itself, and how the purpose of settling the mind in...
This is a short followup (I promise! It’s actually less than 15 minutes) clearing up some points from the previous episode. I took two fragm...
Ok, this is what a lot of you have been waiting for, and with very good reason! Get your thinking hats on, turn off your phones, get a nice...