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Dharma talks and guided meditations given six days per week during the Spring, 2011 eight-week Shamatha retreat at the Thanyapura Mind Centre in Phuket, Thailand, with B. Alan Wallace. Podca...
In this final session, Alan brings us back to the first immeasurable of loving-kindness with a guided meditation which focuses on loving-kin...
Editor's Note: Due to multiple recording errors, this afternoon's podcast is an optimized recording from an iPhone. Because of this, it is d...
This morning, Alan first speaks about Dharma practice during periods of transition. This is followed by an unguided meditation, which is not...
Although there are two more days of retreat, this is our last afternoon session. Alan begins by jumping right in to a guided meditation in w...
This morning we begin with an unguided meditation (not included in this recording) and then Alan answers the following questions from the gr...
This afternoon Alan leads a guided meditation [6:25] that integrates the three different methods of vipashyana as taught by Padmasambhava. A...
This morning, Alan speaks about skillful means for evaluating our practice and determining whether our aspirations are being fulfilled or no...
In this afternoon session, (today's morning session did not include any guidance or teachings and was not recorded) Alan Wallace continues t...
This afternoon, we review the teachings from Saturday afternoon (#84) and practice in the same way. The unguided meditation is not included....
This morning, Alan reminds us to continue to "downshift" and loosen up if we find we are unsatisfied with the quality of our meditation. Thi...
This afternoon Alan continues with a second method of vipashyana, "Engaging in the Search for the Mind," again from Padmasambhava's "Natural...
We will continue to go right into unguided meditation sessions in the morning (not included in the recording), followed by brief Q&A. This m...
This afternoon, Alan ventures into the realm of vipashyana with an introductory teaching. He draws from Padmasambhava's "Natural Liberation"...
This morning's session is an unguided open practice, followed by brief Q&A. The meditation period is not included. Alan answers these questi...
Alan begins this afternoon session with a profoundly wise and skillful dharma talk on the deepest kind of equanimity: that which is viewed f...
This morning we return to the final phase of the awareness of awareness practice: exploring this awareness spatially. Alan first reviews the...
This afternoon, Alan Wallace sets up a meditation on equanimity, or uppekha, in two parts. First, bringing to mind situations in our lives t...
This morning we continue with the practice of awareness of awareness. Alan first gives an introduction, then brief final remarks after the u...
This afternoon Alan Wallace again sets up an unguided meditation on mudita, or empathetic joy. He first gives a 40 minute dharma talk about...
This morning Alan Wallace again introduces the practice of shamatha without a sign, or awareness of awareness, as taught by Padmasambhava. W...
This afternoon's session begins with a 50 minute Dharma talk in which Alan Wallace invites us to consider whether we are content, satisfied,...
In this morning's session we return to the practice of awareness of awareness. Alan first introduces the technique of oscillation between wi...
This afternoon, Alan first gives a Dharma talk relating to the deepest type of suffering to which we are vulnerable: the pervasive suffering...
This morning, Alan first reviews the practice of settling the mind in its natural state, both in theory and in practice. This is followed by...
This afternoon, Alan first gives a lengthy Dharma talk about different methods for responding to the reality of change. He contrasts the mat...
Alan first speaks for 15 minutes about the benefits of the practice of settling the mind in its natural state and its use in freeing ourselv...
Alan begins this afternoon's session with a lengthy dharma talk on cultivating confidence in the practices, now that we have two full weeks...
This morning continues with unguided meditations. Alan first speaks briefly about the tendency to identify with the body and mind as oneself...
Another unguided meditation this afternoon, first introduced with a description of the obstacle of feeling separate from others, and how thi...
This morning, Alan first reviews the instructions for the third phase of mindfulness of breathing, with the attention placed on the sensatio...
This afternoon we continue with unguided meditations. Alan first reviews the meditation on loving-kindness for others in the tradition of Bu...
This morning, Alan first reviews the practice of mindfulness of breathing, the second phase, with its emphasis on the somatic sensations of...
In this afternoon's session, Alan first gives advice on the sleep imbalances that can arise during retreat (or outside of retreat) and intro...
The next three morning sessions will be unguided meditations on the first three stages of mindfulness of breathing. This morning, Alan first...
In this session, we approach the immeasurable of equanimity from a Mahayana perspective, using the practice of tonglen (sending and receivin...
In this morning session, Alan Wallace guides a meditation on the awareness of awareness practice. Today, we intentionally send our awareness...
Alan Wallace begins this afternoon's session with the question, "When a desire arises, how does one know whether it is desire (wholesome) or...
In this morning session, Alan Wallace guides a meditation of awareness of awareness, focusing on the lived sense, the actual sense one has,...
In this session, Alan Wallace guides a meditation on empathetic joy, emphasizing taking delight and joy in both the causes of genuine happin...
In this morning session, we follow Padmasambhava's teachings in this second phase of the awareness of awareness practice. Our quest is not t...
In this session, Alan Wallace guides a meditation on mudita, or empathetic joy. He first speaks for some time about the opportunity of a pre...
We again begin to explore the practice of awareness of awareness in this teaching and guided meditation with Alan Wallace. He speaks for a s...
In this teaching, Alan Wallace guides a meditation on compassion for the deepest kind of suffering: the suffering of conditioned existence....
We continue to practice setting the mind in its natural state, today focusing on observing the space of the mind without alteration. The gui...
Today's session begins with an inspiring and lucid twenty-minute dharma talk about the four noble truths, particularly the first three noble...
Alan Wallace guides a 24-minute guided meditation on settling the mind in its natural state. He first introduces the practice of applying th...
Alan Wallace begins today's teaching with a 40-minute dharma talk that could be titled, "Retreat and Expedition Approaches to Freedom from B...
We return to the practice of settling the mind in its natural state. In the guided meditation, we bring the quality of quiet, bare attention...
This simple approach to loving-kindness was taught by the Buddha himself. We will be extending the awareness out spatially in all directions...
Alan Wallace guides in the third phase of mindfulness of breathing, which focuses on enhancing vividness without sacrificing stability. Duri...