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Welcome! On this site you’ll find downloadable podcasts from the Fall 2010 Shamatha Retreat led by B. Alan Wallace in Phuket, Thailand. Follow along with the retreat as Wallace gives daily m...
Alan offers final words and we tearfully say goodbye. The session ends with a big group hug.
Alan encourages us not to be discouraged when life dishes up difficult situations, and instead to bring our best motivation to daily life.
Alan discusses bringing wholesome intentions into our daily lives as a way of letting our minds become dharma. Though we will continue to be...
Alan talks about envisioning something new for ourselves as we go back into situations that feel old and familiar.
As we anticipate the end of retreat, Alan mentions that the effects of retreat will not be lost as we go out and engage with the world. Genu...
In this talk, Alan encourages us to continue our practice in a spirit of loving-kindness for ourselves. He then answers questions about Arha...
Alan offers some brief remarks on the 5 Dhana factors, as well some of the possible implications of Buddhist mindfulness on memory loss asso...
This time Alan gave us advice on how to maintain protection from imbalances once we engage in daily life activities and that is becoming mor...
Alan offers some brief remarks on choosing which practice we’d like to engage in during these silent meditations. This is followed by an ung...
On this, the last night of led practice for this retreat, Alan first teaches on how the cultivation of shamatha and the four immeasurables a...
This morning we had the last guided Shamatha meditation. Alan explained how in this transient world in which all things that are born have t...
Equanimity is understood as a sense of composure in engaging with life situations and persons as well as even heartedness. Is an attitude tr...
This morning Alan took another stab at modern scientific reductionism – the tendency to reduce everything to an objective, solid reality, in...
Alan begins this session with an inspirational story about one of his foremost teachers, Geshe Rabten. This humble lama, who had completed y...
Today we take an excursion into our experienced sense of being the observer and probe inward to investigate. The practice - awareness of awa...
In the Theravada context, cultivating Empathetic Joy (Mudita) is cultivating an emotion. There is so much to take delight in! This will add...
There are some terms we shouldn’t misunderstand, because if we do, we can waste a lot of time of practice. Alan gave an explanation of such...
The deepest level of suffering is caused by the three poisons, particularly the grasping to “I am.” While the “message of modernity” is that...
In the intro, Alan explained the difference between the space of the mind with its 6 fields of experience (dharmadatu) and ultimate reality,...
Once more Alan gave us magnificent reflections about the 5 obscurations, which are responsible for the suffering of change. On this occasion...
Good Morning to All Shamatha Minded Sentient Beings, This morning Alan went into more detail on settling the mind in its natural state. He o...
This evening we return to compassion, with a focus on how Buddhism runs against the grain of modernity in terms of its approach to suffering...
This morning we began the cycle of Settling the Mind in its Natural state following the instructions that the Buddha gave to Bahia “In the s...
Alan starts by mentioning that within all physical and mental impermanence, what remains always constant is a person that wants to be happy,...
This morning Alan used the Russian-dolls imagery (the dolls that stuck within each other) as his mold. First, he applied it to our mindfulne...
Once again cultivating loving kindness through the practice of Tonglen, Alan advises to start with ourselves as we concentrate on our own me...
“So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things...
Discursive meditation, because it is repetitive, can become stale. Between sessions, look for sentient beings with whom to interact, each ti...
Pressure in the head and headaches are not habits we should build while meditating. Therefore, this morning, Alan gave a detailed reminder o...
Following a silent meditation session, Alan addressed a wide range of questions from students: Post-retreat advice regarding refuge, ethics,...
We started with a silent meditation with free choice on practicing one of the Shamatha practices. Then Alan gave some examples of the path o...
We started with a silent meditation with free choice on practicing one or more of the Four Immeasurables. Then Alan gave a little bit of adv...
This evening we return to the practice of Immeasurable Equanimity, with some profound instructions drawn from Karma Chagme Rinpoche, a great...
In this session Alan made an analogy between the practice of visualizing a Buddha image in the first stages of shamatha and the clarity we c...
Alan explains that Equanimity is similar to the Serenity prayer: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to...
The point of awareness of awareness is NOT to prove that there’s no one who is aware because there is. Not finding any-specific-one who cont...
Alan reviews for us the process of cultivating empathetic joy. It is possible to find many rewards in this practice as he explores the unfol...
If you want firewood, you can trim off all the leaves and branches and wait for the tree to die and fall over. OR you can cut the tree down...
Strong mental afflictions catch our attention. We do not notice good deeds as much as bad. This is especially true of the media. We need to...
Awareness of awareness is “the most profound practice” according to the Buddha, and he gave us this morning very meaningful advice on how to...
Grasping the “real I” and “really mine” is at the root of suffering. How do we get rid of grasping? All of Dharma. After 8 weeks we may find...
Alan starts the session with an explanation of mindfulness of breathing, saying that, with time and practice, there may be a moment where yo...
This evening Alan taught us more about the cultivation of compassion, but now going deeper, from the compassion for the blatant suffering of...
Good Morning, This Mediation is settling the Mind in Its Natural State. Alan said that because he didn’t answer two questions last night he...
This evening, as we return to the theme of Immeasurable Compassion, Alan offers an expansive and truly remarkable presentation of how the Bu...
This can be a challenging practice. In today’s approach, drawing from the teachings of the Buddha to Bahia “In the seen let it just be the s...
This afternoon Alan deepens into the subject of Loving-Kindness. He cites sources from the Mettā Sutta found in the Pali Canon; the Visuddhi...
This morning Alan raised the emotional issue of the warrior returning home from the front. Going down memory lane he recalled the various wa...
Alan reminds us that the practice of loving-kindness first begins with loving ourselves. As so often is the case in meditation practice, we...
Alan discusses synergy this morning. In the “infirmary” this is experienced while one balances maintaining the initial state of clarity with...