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Alan Wallace Fall 2013 8-Week retreat on Shamatha and the Bodhisattva Way of Life, including teachings on the Seven-Point Mind-Training and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, by B. Al...
Follwing the silent meditation, Alan gets to a few remaining questions, including one about his experience with Shambala and Kalachakra. A f...
Before the silent meditation, Alan mentions a few points about Bodichitta. After the silent meditation, we go back to the last few aphorisms...
Before the session's meditation, Alan raises the issue of retreat and expedition for after the retreat is over. After the meditation, there...
Meditation front loading: The porousness of the mind. It is possible that influences can go both into and out from the mind. Like when prayi...
Silent session, followed by one question regarding the origin of people within a lucid dream. They all stem from the substrate consciousness...
From the seventh point of Atisha's mind training: 'Adopt the three principle causes' These causes are: 1. Following a qualified mentor - Ala...
This practice is a variation for shamatha without a sign. The method this morning being balancing earth with sky: shamatha with support, wit...
Alan begins with two quotes from William James regarding aspiration. The guided meditation is on developing your personal aspirations and th...
As you merge the mind with space, maintain a flow of knowing of the sheer absence of thought. It is a knowing of emptiness that can lead to...
Tonight the meditation is front loaded by looking at two ways we can view the adversity that will no doubt effect us and those we see as bel...
In this short session Alan front loads our week of meditation practice speaking of how we can rollback the layers of conceptual overlay to c...
Tonight we return to the meditation on the two bodhicittas. Before the silent meditation, Alan give a short preamble on the importance of mo...
This morning we have our last silent meditation in the second cycle of Shamatha without a sign. Alan gives a short preamble, stressing the i...
The session starts with a silent meditation on the two Bodhichittas. After the meditation, Alan talks about ultimate and relative bodhichitt...
The session starts with a short explanation of today's meditation (silent meditation, not recorded), a variation of Shamatha without a sign...
The two bodhicittas may seem incompatible, if there is not someone really there, then how to feel compassion? From the other side, when seei...
From the substrate, which is in the nature of delusion, a stirring of karmic energies eventually leads to the full elaboration of conceptual...
Before the meditation Alan discusses from which perspective you can do the tong-len practice - from your ordinary self or from the platform...
For the practices of awareness of awareness, Alan begins by saying to release your awareness into space with no object, then let awareness o...
Meditation – continue as described yesterday with one meditation on ultimate Bodhicitta and one on relative Bodhicitta. Continuation of the...
We lock onto an object, reify it and then attachment or aversion arises. The discovery model allows the mind to heal itself by doing nothing...
Alan again front loads the meditation by comparing Atisha's Lam Rim texts and Seven Point Mind Training text and the role of discursive medi...
Alan front loads this session by looking at the difference between this practice and Dzogchen - grasping - and looks at how practice is idea...
Today's evening session begins with the continuation of the discussion on the power of prayer and blessings. Alan gives a few examples of ho...
This morning we start with the last session in the second cycle of settling the mind in its natural state. Alan gives a short preamble befor...
Before the guided meditation, Dr. Wallace comments on Malala, a 16 year old girl from Pakistan, who currently fights for the right of educat...
Before the meditation, Dr. Wallace starts with a prelude to the meditation of settling the mind in its natural state. The focus should now b...
Silent meditation session and then a continuation of yesterday's theme related to the 'power of prayer'. "We don't believe in anything witho...
We revisit an important facet of settling the mind in its natural state: to observe not so much the objective appearances to the mind, but t...
Silent meditation on relative and ultimate Bodhicitta (not recorded) at 6:08. Fourth point of the text 'To synthesise the essence of this pr...
Focus simply on the observation of the so call objective appearances that appear in the space of the mind. When we have difficulty doing thi...
Meditate for half the session on shamatha without a sign – probing right into where you think the observer is – this can lead to ultimate Bo...
What makes us so vulnerable to suffering? We identify so closely with the body and mind. This meditation starts to put some distance as you...
Here Alan continues the Lojong text and addresses how we can eliminate the tug of war between dharma and our everyday life by transforming e...
We return to this practice also known as Appearances and Awareness as the Path. Alan reminds us to examine the essential nature of the thoug...
We begin the evening session with a silent Tong Len meditation by focusing on a person, group of people, or other sentient beings - those wh...
The morning session starts with a silent meditation on mindfulness of breathing of our preferred mode (not recorded). After the meditation,...
After el short introduction, we go into a silent meditation session on the three spaces. Right after the meditation, we go back to the theme...
The morning session starts with a footnote on the subject of yesterday's evening session, i.e. spirits. Then we continue with a silent medit...
Again returning to the three space meditation, this time front loaded with a readings from the Bāhiya Sutta and instruction from Sera Khandr...
As in the three fold space meditation, where we are trying to view space from the perspective of rigpa, here in Asanga's method we are tryin...
Line from Seven Point Mind Training - 'By meditating on delusive appearances as the four kayas, emptiness is the unsurpassed protection'. Al...
Alan discusses the Theravada classical approach of attending to the sensations and the tip of the nostrils, as described by Buddhagosa. Alth...
Alan starts the session by describing his first interview with His Holiness on the topic of pride in one’s dharma knowledge. Kyabje Trijang...
We go right into meditation on the rise and fall of the breath at the abdomen. Burmese method to stabilize the mind. Stage 2 of Shamatha is...
Here we look at how an understanding of emptiness informs the Lojong teachings with a meditation asking questions designed to help us unders...
We return to Mindfulness of Breathing after Alan cautions us to avoid putting pressure on ourselves to try harder. Relaxing rather than push...
We begin the evening session with the practice of Tong Len, focusing on gratitude towards all those people in our lives who enabled our phys...
We start today's morning session with the last (silent) meditation in the cycle of merging mind with space. After the meditation, Alan gives...
The session starts with the Tong Len meditation. After the guided meditation, we go back to the aphorism "Blame everything on the culprit",...