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As a bonus, at the end of our retreat Alan presented to us the teachings on Sukhavati from Karma Chagme. If you missed your chance for the t...
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This eight-week retreat will focus on three of the six transitional processes, namely: the Transitional Process of Living, with teachings on śamatha and vipaśyanā, the Transitional Process o...
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As a bonus, at the end of our retreat Alan presented to us the teachings on Sukhavati from Karma Chagme. If you missed your chance for the t...

What better way to end a retreat than with Shantideva’s beautiful verses about embracing bodhicitta! The verses cited today are often used f...

In the silent meditation we are once again asked to balance earth and sky and to proceed at our own pace. After the meditation we finish the...

On the penultimate stage to the cultivation of bodhicitta we return to the great resolve: I shall free all sentient beings. Alan points how...

At the beginning Alan shares extremely uplifting news as what concerns “Project Contemplative Observatory”. After having failed to build one...

Alan starts by talking about his last dharma talk and once more making clear that his anger was not directed towards any person, but simply...

The session begins with a guided meditation on variations of taking the mind as the path, beginning with maintaining peripheral awareness of...

“Why couldn’t all beings never be parted from sublime happiness free from suffering?” This question beginning the meditation on Great Mudita...

Before the meditation, Alan elaborates on the importance of preliminary practices and the accumulation of merit in order to prepare the mind...

Alan highlights the practice of balancing earth and sky. The core of the practice is to develop a deepening sense of ease, relaxation and gr...

In today’s session Alan talks about the importance of purification and accruing merit in order to proceed quickly along the path. The Sanskr...

Whereas the Four Immeasurables are the best friends of Vipashyana in weakening the mental afflictions before wisdom finally gives them the r...

Alan reminds us that the text by Padmasambhava strikes one as religious and mystical if viewed from a eurocentric perspective. However, it i...

Once again we come back to the culmination of the 4 immeasurables: the cultivation of equanimity. By way of referring to the Dalai Lama as w...

In his brief instructions before the silent meditation, Alan reminds us of the importance, before all else, of releasing control of the brea...

Alan begins by emphasizing once again the importance in Dzogchen of the relationship between the student and the guru. In Sravakayana practi...

Alan reminds us that the advanced practices of “not meditating on anything” (page 176, Natural Liberation) are intended for those who have a...

Alan prefaces the meditation with his reflections on compassion being a hard sell to avowed materialists. If not sick or dying, cultivating...

Alan starts the session commenting on the importance of the sense of community and supporting each other. Emphasizing this, he explains a st...

This short podcast includes a meditation on compassion focusing on the three types of suffering: suffering of suffering, suffering of change...
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