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Dharma talks and guided meditations given six days per week during the Fall, 2011 eight-week Shamatha retreat at the Thanyapura Mind Centre in Phuket, Thailand, with B. Alan Wallace. Podcast...
We come to our very last session with a meditation on loving kindness and dedication of merit (0:50) Afterwards our group prepared such a lo...
We come to the last day of the retreat, where Alan invites us to reboot our mind by way of shamatha. Silent meditation starts at 01:16 After...
Alan leads the group, who has started talking now, through a shamatha session (02:13) designed to bring the mind down from agitation to calm...
Alan briefly speaks on how to infuse a busier day with shamatha and mindfulness. He also announces that he will do 6 months retreat at the e...
There are three strategies to protect from the tornado of thoughts in the mind. The first is to go to a shelter which is mindfulness of brea...
We are beginning our final descent. The deva realm of Tushita and the pure land of Tushita sit side by side. In the deva realm when it is ti...
Silent meditation (no introduction) starts at 0:18 Questions (25:28): 1. Comment on the concepts of time and space. 2. What role do the “Hid...
Relying on hedonic pleasure is like a town that relies on a coal-fired generator. We begin to realize how much pollution this represents and...
This last Monday afternoon’s session, which we can say that is indispensable to listen to, Alan offered a huge number of pieces of advice th...
The root of all Buddhist teachings and practice is compassion. We start out with the reality of suffering – something that we have all exper...
In this session Alan reminds us that shamatha is designed to dispel the 5 obscurations and as the imbalances are built-in, the remedies are...
The Four Immeasurables unguided meditation. Alan reiterates how important it is to have a sense of direction, a path. You really need to hav...
For those of us returning to our ordinary lives, Alan suggests that we avail ourselves of all the shamatha practices depending on our body a...
Experienced meditators can move through a process of maturation where the Dharma and practices become ever more central to their lives. They...
After a silent meditation (1:40) Alan gives an overview and brief ‘how to guide’ of lucid dreaming and dream yoga. Then questions (67:20) in...
“Shape your mind, shape your life.” Having completed the cycle of guided meditation, Alan speaks briefly about envisioning the transition fr...
Reading from Vajra Essence regarding the difference between consciousness, substrate consciousness and Rigpa. Meditation on awareness of awa...
Meditation on equanimity. Start with loving kindness for ourselves. Mental afflictions come to us just like the flu – don’t fuse your identi...
Dharma talk and meditation on Awareness of Awareness with the focus on the observer: Is there someone in there? The Bahiya (of the Garment)...
We come back to equanimity and Alan talks about it from 3 different levels: Coarse mind - Shantideva: "If there is something you can do abou...
Deep…During this extremely inspiring afternoon, Alan started by explaining how to recognize the object of attention of the practice of aware...
Instruction and meditation on cultivating Empathetic Joy: Calling upon the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and gurus for blessing and remembering tha...
Alan talks about the up and downs of the practice and how to keep the enthusiasm and where to draw the inspiration from. Then he shares an e...
Why couldn't we all never be parted from genuine happiness free from suffering? Cultivating Empathetic Joy is not just an emotion but also a...
Alan goes into greater detail about ascertaining the space of the mind between mental events in settling the mind. He explains the danger of...
Compassion, understood as the suffering of conditioned phenomena, is conditioned by ignorance. Suffering in its broadest manifestation invol...
Alan takes us through a comparative study of texts from the time of the Buddha up until the 19th Century, comparing the way shamatha has bee...
“Give up attachment to this life and let your mind become Dharma” Alan explains how to approach the suffering of change and elaborates on th...
Settling the mind in its natural state. When mental afflictions come up, if you recognize them as such, you have a choice regarding whether...
Meditation on Compassion. Why couldn’t we all be free from suffering and the causes of suffering? There is a dearth of knowledge regarding t...
Instruction and meditation on Mindfulness of Breathing: the focus on anapanasatti (focusing on the sensations at the opening of the nostrils...
We continue with the practice of metta, or loving kindness, expanding out as in the Pali suttas, combined with the Tibetan liturgy of Mahama...
Welcome to all! This afternoon Alan started by stating that stability is usually regarded as the core of the shamatha practice and how it is...
Meditative cultivation of Loving Kindness: The focus was Great Loving Kindness, seeing through the outer manifestations of people, including...
Once again we start the cycle, beginning with mindfulness of breathing. Alan first gives an overview of the whole path, from settling the bo...
In this round, Alan will lay emphasis on the Mahayana approach to the 4 immeasurables. „Why can’t all sentient beings find happiness and the...
Alan reviews the process of relinquishing control/agency in the 3 shamatha practices. Given the buddhist assertion that something true shoul...
Equanimity is the final fruition of the path. In the Theravada tradition, equanimity is envisioned as a composure of imperturbability, of no...
Alan expands upon some of the ideas from physics he dealt with in the previous day’s talk and explains how the Dzogchen view and the Prasang...
Alan covers the prerequisites for the development of equanimity, which involve one transcending one’s ordinary deluded outlook. He discusses...
We all experience taking voluntary action such as raising an arm. Who is the agent for voluntary actions? In Awareness of awareness meditati...
Morning talk – Empathetic Joy – Finding commonality with others Meditation (13:12) Taking Joy in others joy – first in conventional joy, the...
Many people have expressed confusion about this practice, probably because of looking for something to happen that isn’t happening. Therefor...
We come back to the cultivation of mediate, starting with oneself, but not an immutable self, a dependently arisen self. Alan again comments...
Alan started the session of this afternoon explaining why among the immense variety ofmethods to achieve shamatha, he presents these three,...
Dharma talk on Compassion Suffering relates to the “conceit of ‘I am’” – the delusion that there is an “I” that exists outside of conceptual...
Alan starts by explaining the concept of rang dröl (self-liberation or natural liberation) in the context of shamatha practice. He then talk...
Back to Compassion focusing on suffering of change because of the mental affliction of attachment. The internal antidote is samadhi. Alan re...
Alan begins by giving examples of how one could experience the substrate directly before achieving shamatha. As with emptiness and rigpa, su...
The most obvious form of suffering is blatant suffering, which is both physical and mental. Physical suffering involves lack of necessities...