Session 92: (Discussion Only) A Final Teaching, and an Expression of Gratitude to Our Teacher
Alan offers final words and we tearfully say goodbye. The session ends with a big group hug.
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Alan Wallace Shamatha Teachings Fall 2010
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...
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20 of 92 episodesSession 91: (Discussion Only) Bringing Good Motivation into Daily Life
Alan encourages us not to be discouraged when life dishes up difficult situations, and instead to bring our best motivation to daily life.
Session 90: (Discussion Only) Letting Our Minds Become Dharma
Alan discusses bringing wholesome intentions into our daily lives as a way of letting our minds become dharma. Though we will continue to be...
Session 89: (Discussion Only) Envisioning the Future You Would Love to Live
Alan talks about envisioning something new for ourselves as we go back into situations that feel old and familiar.
Session 88: (Discussion Only) Genuine Happiness in Everyday Life
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...
Session 87: (Discussion Only) Balancing Discipline and Gentleness and a Q&A Session
In this talk, Alan encourages us to continue our practice in a spirit of loving-kindness for ourselves. He then answers questions about Arha...
Session 86: (Discussion Only) Possible Effects of Shamatha on Cognitive Deterioration
Alan offers some brief remarks on the 5 Dhana factors, as well some of the possible implications of Buddhist mindfulness on memory loss asso...
Session 85: (Discussion only) The Four Immeasurables Keeping Tabs on Each Other
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...
Session 84: (Discussion Only) Some Brief Remarks on Selecting Your Shamatha Practice
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...
Session 83: Equanimity and a Great Encompassment of our Practices
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...
Session 82: Awareness of Awareness, Shamatha That Can Assist at the Moment of Death
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...
Session 81: Going Outward with Equanimity
Equanimity is understood as a sense of composure in engaging with life situations and persons as well as even heartedness. Is an attitude tr...
Session 80: Awareness of Awareness and Potentially the Last Soap Box Speech on Materialism
This morning Alan took another stab at modern scientific reductionism – the tendency to reduce everything to an objective, solid reality, in...
Session 79: Happy Gratitude and Empathetic Joy
Alan begins this session with an inspirational story about one of his foremost teachers, Geshe Rabten. This humble lama, who had completed y...
Session 78: Deactivating the Coarse Mind with Awareness of Awareness
Today we take an excursion into our experienced sense of being the observer and probe inward to investigate. The practice - awareness of awa...
Session 77: Empathetic Joy and Sacred Tension
In the Theravada context, cultivating Empathetic Joy (Mudita) is cultivating an emotion. There is so much to take delight in! This will add...
Session 76: A Clarification of Buddhist Mindfulness and Awareness of Awareness Practice
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...
Session 75: Compassion Practice and the Urge to Become
The deepest level of suffering is caused by the three poisons, particularly the grasping to “I am.” While the “message of modernity” is that...
Session 74: Attending to the Space of the Mind, and a Discussion of Dharmadatu and Dharmata
In the intro, Alan explained the difference between the space of the mind with its 6 fields of experience (dharmadatu) and ultimate reality,...
Session 73: The Five Obscurations Applied in Education and a Practice in Compassion
Once more Alan gave us magnificent reflections about the 5 obscurations, which are responsible for the suffering of change. On this occasion...