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Spring 2012 shamatha retreat audio teachings with Alan Wallace. Live from the Thanyapura Mind Centre in Phuket, Thailand.
Aspiring for genuine happiness. Unguided meditation not included. Q&A What do i have to do to achieve stage 4 outside of retreat? What does...
We proceed directly into meditation with loving kindness for ourself, then spend the remaining time with Q&A. Q&A (at 24:51) * Subtlety of s...
We are encouraged to practice the four immeasurables in a spirit of looking back on our retreat and broader past. Then we receive advice aro...
Enter your practice in the spirit of loving-kindness, particularly when the mind is prone to rumination. Consider the analogy of the horse s...
How to help people ? What aspects of dharma speak of developing these abilities and is there a first aid guide for specific ailments ?
Our shamatha practice can help keep us cognitively tuned while back in the big world, even if we can only practice briefly during the day. I...
Alan explains why the four immeasurables build a perfect system by each backing up one of the others. Silent meditation
We expand upon the two methods given by Panchen Lama Rinpoche of managing incoming thoughts: in the first, after flicking an arrow of though...
Alan gives the remaining two of Buddhaghosa's fourfold analyses of the four immeasurables, those of empathetic joy and of equanimity. The an...
When performed in the method described by Panchen Lama Rinpoche of letting thoughts emerge and dissolve on their own like a raven on a ship,...
Alan elaborates the four modes of enlightened activities: 1. Pacifying color white 2. Enriching color gold 3. Power color red 4. Ferocity co...
The stillness experienced in awareness of awareness is due to the absence of grasping. In sustaining this awareness we are observing nothing...
While attending to sentient beings always think... It's because of you're kindness that i have the opportunity to achieve enlightenment.
As if we've become disciples in the 17th century, this evening we listen to the 4th Panchen Lama Rinpoche's teachings on awareness of awaren...
May we be a light that inspires others to draw on their own inner resources! Silent meditation not included.
In settling the mind in its natural state we seek to emulate viewing the substrate from the perspective of the substrate consciousness as a...
Silent meditation
In settling the mind in its natural state, by observing mental events without taking interest in their contents we develop a familiarity wit...
Silent Meditation Not Included
We begin tonight by reading an excerpt by Düdjom Lingpa describing the dzogchen practice of open presence and discussing its similitude to s...
Alan reviews the nature of mental suffering and the strategies for dealing with it in each of the three methods of Shamatha. Silent meditati...
Like an old friend, mindfulness of the sensations of the breath at the apertures of the nostrils, with its gentle undulations, makes us feel...
Metta bhavana as taught by the Buddha. Silent meditation not included
Being mindful of the sensations of the breath at the abdomen can result in a eudaemonic contentment if we release craving for more stimulati...
The meditative cultivation of loving kindness as taught in the Visuddhimagga by Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa. Silent meditation not included
With a new cycle we return to settling the body, speech, and mind in their natural states. In the Vajra Essence, Düdjom Lingpa intimates sha...
We review loving-kindness' distant enemy, false facsimile, proximate cause, and sign of success. What is your vision of your own flourishing...
Tonight we plunge right into the practice of awareness of awareness, with the variant of stretching in four directions. Then we discuss the...
Might it be that when our resolve is to realize genuine happiness for the sake of all beings we may have confidence and trust that reality r...
Mindfulness of breathing, a active developmental practice, produces skills such as attentional stability which can be said to have a high ma...
Alan elaborates on the leading question: "Why couldn't we all be free of attachment and aversion for those who are near or far?" Because we...
Three methods of escape when the mind is agitated: send your awareness out into the somatic field, out further into the world of exterior se...
We are invited to ask ourselves a question... How does one integrate vastly deepening bliss, on one hand, with increasingly boundless awaren...
With awareness of awareness, the body and speech are settled normally while the mind is given a complete reboot: all concerns are released,...
Maha-Mudita liturgy. Why couldn't all sentient beings never be separated from happiness and its cause's ? May we never be separated from gen...
In mindfulness of breathing, the technique of arousing interest during inhalation and relaxing during exhalation is incredibly effective. We...
For the cultivation of genuine happiness there are certain aspects of reality, the knowing of which does really liberate. Alan mentions the...
Relax! You've heard it, you'll hear it again. We revisit the crucial technique of letting go—of tension in the body, controlling the breath,...
Over time, why couldn't all sentient beings find the genuine happiness that stems from the cultivation of the heart and mind? May it be so....
Settling the body, speech, and mind in their natural state is fundamental to shamatha practice and though it so familiarly begins each sessi...
The 'Greats' begin with compassion - the 'Great Compassion' - aspiring to get everybody's head above water, so they survive. It is followed...
Our lives are saturated with desire for attainments of both a mundane and spiritual nature. While giving priority to a spiritual desire will...
We should ask the simple question: "Why are we suffering at all?" The answer is twofold: 1. We are grasping onto which is not I as being I a...
Tonight we add depth to the practice of settling the mind in its natural state with two further modes of mindfulness: #3 absence of mindfuln...
We cultivate the aspiration and intention to help all beings become free from grasping even in the midst of inevitable aging, sickness, natu...
We're at cruising attitude with settling the mind in its natural state. Tonight not many words about the practice. We're reminded of the met...
Alan shares his definitions of 'spiritual' and 'religious', and discusses 'Mahakaruna' or 'Great Compassion'. Then, we practice developing t...
Tonight we finish a set of mindfulness of breathing as we move our attention to focus on the sensations at the apertures of the nostrils. Th...
While maybe a specifically monastic theme, its implications are for everyone following this path: "Be satisfied with that what is merely ade...
Meditation begins at 15:45 Q&A begins at 53:19