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
Analyzing the reality that we live in, and testing the biggest experiment that a human being can perform. (+ Loving Kindness Practice)
The beginning of this afternoon's lecture is a stunning, wisdom-packed reflection on the analysis of our own world view. Alan starts by giving an overview of some of the predominant world views, from…
01:31:34 |
Tue 01 Jun 2010
Revisiting the Infirmary for the Last Time!
I'll try not to title all of the Shamatha episodes from today onwards with the phrase "for the last time," although we have come to the final cycle of the teachings!
My descriptions for these morning…
00:24:26 |
Tue 01 Jun 2010
[Bonus] Psychology, attention, and the urgent need for contemplative science.
A number of the past bonus podcasts had been geared towards the physicists, but this weekend we have some juice for psychologists! In this bonus podcast, we have some extremely interesting points abo…
00:55:15 |
Sun 30 May 2010
[Bonus] Phuket Mind Observatory Plans / Neurofeedback Augmentation
In this bonus episode we cover some very interesting cognitive science/brain science questions from Noah.
The first question asks if meditation researchers have been able to isolate the EEG correlate…
00:35:14 |
Sun 30 May 2010
Entering the Great Path of the Bodhisattvas
In this afternoon's marvelous introduction, Alan talks about The Great Path of the Bodhisattvas, comparing it to a Freeway (using the American term). Using this very accurate analogy he talks about g…
01:33:33 |
Sat 29 May 2010
[Vesak] Special Meditation and the Story of The Buddha’s Enlightenment
This afternoon we started with a special guided meditation to commemorate the Buddha's Enlightenment, not specifically centered on Shamatha or the Four Immeasurables.
After the meditation, Alan gave…
01:20:38 |
Fri 28 May 2010
Vesak Day Guided Meditation
Happy Vesak Day!
This morning we conmemorated the celebration of Buddha Śākyamuni's birth, enlightment, and parinirvana with a guided Shamatha meditation.
After the session, Alan talks a little bi…
00:32:12 |
Fri 28 May 2010
[Bonus] A Sublime Explanation of Awareness of Awareness [Short]
I extracted this practical gem from this afternoon's lecture. It is a clear example of how the instructions to a practice can be profoundly meaningful, stunning, transformative, and just utterly insp…
00:18:09 |
Thu 27 May 2010
Cultivating Self-Worth, Eliminating Pride, The Story of Alan’s First Meeting with HH. Dalai Lama back in 1971, and flowers.
Today we went directly into practice, which I removed from the recording to make it easier to listen to. As you know by now, just do your own practice and then press play! Alan suggests that if we ar…
00:51:01 |
Thu 27 May 2010
Retaining the benefits of practice
This morning we had a silent meditation followed by a few brief tips. The tips cover a bit of posture, and then Alan talks about how the benefits of the practices can be retained in a non-contemplati…
00:32:15 |
Thu 27 May 2010
[Short] The Expedition of Shamatha
This afternoon we went directly into meditation with no preamble, and had no outro directly pertaining to the meditation. So you can meditate for 24 minutes on your own and then press play!
We brief…
00:15:25 |
Wed 26 May 2010
Starting a Two Week Retreat
This morning Alan suggested to adopt the attitute of starting a 2-week retreat. He humorously gave some very important points and tips about the practice in order to make the most out of the time we …
00:33:28 |
Wed 26 May 2010
Four Immeasurables / Four Best Friends
In today's lecture, Alan gave a very brief reflection for when we finish this retreat. As we know, the still, sustained focus / samadhi of our attention will naturally diminish within a socially enga…
00:37:46 |
Tue 25 May 2010
"A Sacred Tension" that we might experience
In this episode, Alan talks about something that probably bothers many of us, and he calls it "A Sacred Tension." It is about our decision to either dedicate our time fully to contemplation, to munda…
00:08:40 |
Tue 25 May 2010
Four Immeasurables: Using our anti-affliction arsenal correctly
This afternoon we started with a very practical introduction on how to draw from the 4I throughout the course of a normal day in our life after the retreat if we are not going into full time practice…
01:01:18 |
Mon 24 May 2010
Flying Solo [Silent Practice]
This morning Alan started by saying that he would like to let us choose our own Shamatha method, for these next few days and perhaps for the rest of the retreat. If so, then I will only be podcasting…
00:35:02 |
Mon 24 May 2010
[Bonus] The Whole Shamatha Story in one Session
In this short and sweet sunday bonus, we synthesized the three main methods of Shamatha into one practice. There is an extremely short introduction and then the practice.
A great way to combine these…
00:34:00 |
Sun 23 May 2010
Loving Kindness: "Coming back to the Beginning for the First Time"
This lovely afternoon we went back to the practice of Loving Kindness, using the phrase from T.S. Elliot in the title. We went straight into meditation.
After the practice, we had assorted Q&A from …
01:28:04 |
Sat 22 May 2010
Equanimity: Making the task cosmical; Awakening the deepest dimension of our existence.
As you can probably tell by the title, today's practice was not you regular 4I practice. Sure, it did start out with a regular equanimity/Tonglen practice but this time we had the option of going dee…
01:33:05 |
Fri 21 May 2010
Awareness of Awareness: Probing into why we exist (the other side of the equation)
Alan "kickstarted" this morning [because he likes that word so much ;) ] with a healthy dose of Physics. He started talking about the following article from NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/sci…
00:33:58 |
Fri 21 May 2010
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