Alan Wallace Live from Phuket!
Welcome! This is now an archive page for Dr. Alan Wallace’s teachings from the Spring 2010 Shamatha Retreat in the wonderful Phuket International Academy Mind Centre!
This podcast feed was 100% created and updated by us (his students here in Phuket) so we can share Alan’s diamond-sharp teachings!
This podcast was created live every day during the retreat in 2010. We will still maintain this site because the teachings are timeless. For more information, please contact the great people at [email protected] !
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 103
- Years Active
- 2010
Ending Where We Began: Equanimity Permeated With Loving Kindness
This afternoon may be the last podcast episode of Alan's lectures for this retreat. He started by returning to the hypothesis of saying that if we align ourselves with reality, reality will rise up t…
01:29:56 |
Fri 11 Jun 2010
The Last Shamatha Practice
I know, I am quite the dramatic with my titles :)
With a bittersweet feeling we have come to the last group practice of Shamatha for this retreat. To end majestically, we practiced the fourth method …
00:39:10 |
Fri 11 Jun 2010
Equanimity: Looking Ahead
This afternoon Alan started by sharing a story about his first meditation counsel with Geshe Rabten, and the two topics that he suggested for meditation: Precious Human Rebirth and Equanimity. He emp…
01:38:37 |
Thu 10 Jun 2010
Of Trust, Devotion, or Lack Thereof (+ Awareness of Awareness Practice)
This morning Alan starts by giving instructions on how to watch the opening game of the World Cup (Mexico-South Africa) on Friday, after being asked for permission to do so. He has a very interesting…
00:43:28 |
Thu 10 Jun 2010
Awareness of Awareness: Emerging through the Clouds of the Dense, Deluded, Compulsive Mind into Clear and Luminous Space
As we approach the end of the retreat, the lectures are getting more and more information packed and so are these summaries. I will say as I always do; if you are new to the podcast go back to the fi…
00:58:51 |
Wed 09 Jun 2010
Empathetic Joy: Using our Mind as a Best Friend (+ great Q&A incl. a deep question about love and attachment).
The story Alan narrates at the very start of this episode comes because there was a dog outside the teaching hall, and as we were coming in for the lecture he would try to get in between our legs, or…
01:28:57 |
Tue 08 Jun 2010
Awareness of Awareness: A Smooth Transition from the Space of the Mind
This morning, Alan said he would squeeze out every drop of knowledge he had left about this first method of Awareness of Awareness, so if you listen to the previous episodes on this stage of practice…
00:54:09 |
Tue 08 Jun 2010
Compassion: Investigating a Hypothesis about the Very Root of Suffering (and the importance of not taking Dharma out of context)
This afternoon Alan started by pointing out the modern tendency of being very harsh and strict with ourselves, and the need for Compassion. He then proceeds by diving down to the very root of sufferi…
01:30:10 |
Mon 07 Jun 2010
Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Sustaining a Continuity
This practice got separated from the previous episode for continuity purposes. As you might expect, we return for the final time to the practice of Settling the Mind in its Natural State. Spefically,…
00:29:17 |
Mon 07 Jun 2010
[Extra Bonus] Culminating in the Great Perfection: The Dzogchen View (Addendum)
In this morning session, Alan really woke us up (interpret that as you will) by making an addendum to this Sunday's bonus episode where we had a "speed drive" through different ways of viewing realit…
00:30:01 |
Mon 07 Jun 2010
[Bonus] The Philosophical Evolution of an Individual through all the Four Schools of Indian Buddhism, Culminating in the Great Perfection. In 45 minutes.
Yes, this is an ambitious title but as always the podcast episode does not fail to deliver the goods. However, I really won't even try to summarize all of Buddhist Philosophy in two paragraphs. I kno…
00:56:29 |
Sun 06 Jun 2010
[Short Bonus]: How did ignorance and delusion arise in the first place? Will samsara end?
For this short bonus episode, I extracted a question that Elizabeth said was maybe unanswerable, about the very beginning of ignorance and delusion (and samsara for that matter). But we all know by n…
00:20:00 |
Sun 06 Jun 2010
Compassion: Freeing Ourselves from the Underlying Causes of Suffering (Attachment/Craving)
In this afternoon practice, we focused not so much on the blatant form of suffering as we did yesterday, but on the underlying causes. In the introduction, Alan reflects on how little we really know …
00:37:38 |
Sat 05 Jun 2010
"The Tempest," Settling the Mind in its Natural State
This morning we returned to Settling the Mind in its Natural state, this time observing the foreground of events arising within the domain of the mind. Alan quotes two plays from Shakespeare ("The Te…
00:34:09 |
Sat 05 Jun 2010
Compassion: Focusing on the Blatant Suffering
This afternoon we went into a very practical and powerful practice on Compassion, focusing on the blatant, glaring, obvious pain that can arise in both the physical and mental domains of experience. …
01:28:37 |
Fri 04 Jun 2010
Settling the Mind In its Natural State: Exploring Conceptually Unmediated Experience
If you have been subscribing to the podcast, you are probably very familiar with today's meditation. We practiced Settling the Mind in its Natural State by first coming in through different domains o…
00:33:24 |
Fri 04 Jun 2010
Loving Kindness: Weaving the Present into the Future (+ Bodhicitta Discussion)
The introduction to today's practice was tailored to us here in Phuket in the sense that we are coming out of retreat soon, but it can be applied by everyone. Alan talks about including the people we…
01:07:50 |
Thu 03 Jun 2010
Mindfulness of Breathing: Practicing with the "glass half full" attitude
In today's mindfulness of breathing practice, Alan started by talking about the causes and solutions for the all too popular phenomenon of the "energy going up to the head," and proceeded by applying…
00:41:54 |
Thu 03 Jun 2010
Opening the floodgates of our inner virtues ( + Loving Kindness practice)
This afternoon we started with a reflection on how many times we see people as just "flat images" or appearances arising to our minds. In the supermarket, subway, etc, we see them as obstacles or mer…
01:08:58 |
Wed 02 Jun 2010
Finding the balance between relaxation and effort (+ Breath Awareness practice)
This morning, Alan started by reading two short verses from the Dhammapada, (freshly translated by him last night) which are a very strong metaphor with the mind training we are doing here. He then t…
00:35:35 |
Wed 02 Jun 2010
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