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
Equanimity: Striking a balance between fluidity and structure
This afternoon Alan starts by quite briefly explaining this balance between fluidity and structure in the equanimity practice, and after the instructions we set off in a pretty much rich but silent s…
01:28:32 |
Thu 20 May 2010
Awareness of Awareness: Warming up for the long run
This morning we return to the third phase in the classic Awareness of Awareness teachings of Padmasambhava. In the introduction, Alan explains how this phase helps create a very 3D and spacious quali…
00:39:28 |
Thu 20 May 2010
Empathetic Joy (Silent Meditation), Q&A
This afternoon the meditation was 100% silent. Even the introduction lasts around 20 seconds!
I cut out the 24 minutes of silence in order to make this a smaller download. You can click pause and do …
01:01:06 |
Wed 19 May 2010
Awareness of Awareness: Deconstructing the artificial problem of mind and matter by going down to the root from which both emerge
Today's practice, the second out of the four Awareness of Awareness methods that we cover in our cycle, is a very deep penetrating practice, encroaching upon VIpassyana territory. Alan starts with an…
00:40:06 |
Wed 19 May 2010
Empathetic Joy: Balancing some of the possible side effects of so much Shamatha practice!
Alan starts this afternoon by detailing some of the possible "side effects" that could happen during intense practice of Shamatha, in the sense that when we are trying to make our mind so focused an …
01:28:50 |
Tue 18 May 2010
Awareness of Awareness: Understanding the Nature of Consciousness (Going against the Dogma!)
This morning Alan promptly warned us that he was feeling a little bit feisty, which resulted in a great historical introduction with examples of how subjective experience has been mistreated and even…
00:42:08 |
Tue 18 May 2010
Combining Compassion and Loving Kindness: An Enriched Tonglen
Today as the title suggests we combined Compassion and Loving kindness into a practice of Tonglen. Furthermore, we incorporated the four modes of enlightened acvitity, using each one where needed, an…
01:34:39 |
Mon 17 May 2010
Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Allowing the mind to heal itself
In this morning's introduction, Alan talks about how the mind is very capable of healing itself, and how the purpose of settling the mind in its natural state is to observe it vividly while not doing…
00:34:49 |
Mon 17 May 2010
[Bonus] *Follow-up* Clearing up a few points and a profoundly encouraging ending
This is a short followup (I promise! It’s actually less than 15 minutes) clearing up some points from the previous episode. I took two fragments from the next day and mashed them together for this po…
00:14:35 |
Sun 16 May 2010
[Bonus] The nature of information, mind and matter, human existence as a flow of experience/information, quantum cosmology, etc.
Ok, this is what a lot of you have been waiting for, and with very good reason! Get your thinking hats on, turn off your phones, get a nice cup of tea, clear your schedule, and bring forth your scien…
00:53:19 |
Sun 16 May 2010
[Bonus] The Four Immeasurables
In this request by Nick W, Alan breaks down the Four Immeasurables in an extremely clear synopsis of how they interrelate, their faux facsimiles (which may look very similar but they work in the oppo…
00:29:32 |
Sun 16 May 2010
Compassion: Freedom from the three levels of suffering
Today we came back to the meditative cultivation of Compassion (to use the correct phrase) and had an introduction directly related to the practice in order to have less words interjected afterwards.…
01:29:54 |
Sat 15 May 2010
Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Sharpening the Vividness
Today we practiced settling the mind in its natural state with an emphasis on observing the background, the "stage" of the mind. As Alan mentions, this acts as a whetstone (knife-sharpening stone) fo…
00:43:48 |
Sat 15 May 2010
Compassion: Separating the Mental Affliction from the Person
Alan gives an introduction on what we actually meditate on when "meditating on the 4I." That is to say, the object of the meditations is always sentient beings. In today's powerful practice, we work …
00:40:47 |
Fri 14 May 2010
Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Coming into our HQ and releasing control
This morning's introduction was about our sense of control and possession of our bodies, our minds, and "our" thoughts. We often believe that our thoughts are actually ours, when we can't even contro…
00:35:03 |
Fri 14 May 2010
Compassion: Blowing the Dust of our Eyes
Today we had a very deep practice on Compassion.
The introduction contains great examples as always in order to turn our minds towards the cultivation of compassion, to make real the suffering of ot…
00:49:16 |
Thu 13 May 2010
Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Coming in From the Senses
This morning we practiced Settling the Mind by coming in through the senses with the phrase "In the perceived, let there be only the perceived" as a preparation for observing the mind. After a short …
00:34:45 |
Thu 13 May 2010
Loving Kindness: Breaking down the Barriers
In this episode, we keep working more deeply with the Four Immeasurables. As always we have our introduction which includes an answer by HH. Dalai Lama from a Mind and Life conference saying that wha…
01:34:47 |
Wed 12 May 2010
Breath Awareness: Getting in the flow
This morning we had a brief followup on the concept of the loss of the sense of self. Afterwards we went directly into the practice, which you may notice was quite silent apart from the initial sets …
00:37:20 |
Wed 12 May 2010
[Bonus] The Preliminary Practices [Short Episode]
Ah, the Ngöndro (preliminary) practices. If you ask how many you have to do (without the proper context and preparation), you will probably be sorry to hear the answer: 100,000. Of ALL OF THEM.
Wit…
00:18:21 |
Tue 11 May 2010
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