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
[Bonus] Clearing up misconceptions about the “Non-Self.”
This podcast was spurred by a question from our philosopher Ilse asking about the difference of "Identitylessness" [or non self] and "Personhood" (as she put it).
There are many misconceptions about…
00:28:54 |
Tue 11 May 2010
Loving Kindness: Ready to Launch
In the introduction, Alan talks about Loving Kindness and how it is an aspiration and not a feeling (although it certainly comes with a feeling). He also talks about achieving Shamatha by method of n…
00:47:09 |
Tue 11 May 2010
Mindfulness of Breathing: Focus on the Abdomen
Today we had a quite silent and relaxing session on the sensations of the breath at the level of the abdomen.
The introduction talks about the several ways in which we can recognize progress in our …
00:36:44 |
Tue 11 May 2010
Loving Kindness: Turning Possibility into Actuality / Shaping our own Future
Today we re-started the 4I cycle with Loving Kindness. Specifically, we focused on motivation and how it has the power to make things possible or impossible, achievable or not achievable.
The introd…
01:33:33 |
Mon 10 May 2010
Full Body Awareness: The Importance of Relaxation (and a reflection on anxiety its status quo in modern society)
This session was the first of the meditations with less spoken guidance. However, Alan made up for it with the great introduction and outro!
The talks are based on the importance of looking for genu…
00:42:44 |
Mon 10 May 2010
[Bonus] Discussion on Kickstarting the Mind Sciences Revolution through Paranormal Abilities
In this juicy sunday Bonus, Alan answers a question from our friend Noah about why wait to kickstart the revolution in the mind sciences? Why not get an accomplished Yogi to demonstrate his paranorma…
00:42:47 |
Sun 09 May 2010
Equanimity: Bringing in the Sharp Wisdom (And a great juicy question on the 4I)
Wow, I have to say that we ended this cycle of meditations perfectly. We had a very valuable practice (although, what practice has not been very valuable?) on Equanimity paired with wisdom. We starte…
00:58:52 |
Sat 08 May 2010
Awareness of Awareness: Resting in the Sheer Luminosity and Cognizance of Experience
This morning we practiced the final phase of Awareness of Awareness, and quoting from Alan's great analogy in the introduction to this practice: "Putting it in the Oven."
The title comes from the su…
00:30:11 |
Sat 08 May 2010
Equanimity: Focus on Impermanence
This podcast starts with a microphone test; you may notice that this podcast has none of the annoying popping noises that went out in the previous episodes. And the sound quality will keep getting be…
01:29:47 |
Fri 07 May 2010
Awareness of Awareness: Approximating the Shamatha-Achieved Mind
This morning we had a practice of the third method of Awareness of Awareness. Alan starts with an introduction and explains some points on the practice, and after the practice he gives some tips on k…
00:33:46 |
Fri 07 May 2010
Empathetic Joy: Taking delight in being of benefit and in contemplative cultivation
Today's practice was focused on taking delight both towards being of benefit in the world outwards but also of going into meditation and being apparently useless for a while, because it's a cultivati…
01:33:40 |
Thu 06 May 2010
Awareness of Awareness: On the edge of Vipassana
This morning we followed a second method of Shamatha without a Sign (Awareness of Awareness) as taught by Padmasambhava. This method included probing into the very nature of that which inverts and re…
00:47:13 |
Thu 06 May 2010
Empathetic Joy: How to repay the kindness of others by freeing ourselves of our own mental afflictions.
This afternoon was great. We started with an overview of four immeasurables as an extrordinarly wise system of emotional regulation, and although that sounds utilitarian (since the qualities of lovin…
01:34:15 |
Wed 05 May 2010
Back to Awareness of Awareness
This morning we started with a brief recap on some details about the breath in Settling the Mind in its Natural State, and some notes about the substrate conciousness and Awareness of Awareness.
Afte…
00:38:42 |
Wed 05 May 2010
Compassion: Lucidity in the Waking State
We start with an introduction on the three different dimensions of suffering and pick up briefly on this morning's topic of becoming lucid in the waking state.
The deep practice that follows is indee…
01:29:54 |
Tue 04 May 2010
Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Observing the Nature of the Space of the Mind
This morning we had an inspiring introduction regarding the space of the mind and its observation, as well as a sequence of steps to become lucid with respect to reality. We went into a 24 minute ses…
00:36:50 |
Tue 04 May 2010
Compassion: Going into Deep Waters
Alan starts with an introduction on "episodic compassion" and how easy it can be to feel contempt and superiority towards the people committing injustices according to us without looking at all of th…
00:51:34 |
Mon 03 May 2010
Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Seeing and Hearing without using the Brain
Interesting title eh?
This morning we practiced Settling the Mind in its Natural State. Alan gave a brief introduction on some cases of Out of Body Experiences and showed how they are related to thi…
00:33:13 |
Mon 03 May 2010
[Bonus] Alan’s Ideal (and possible) Vision of Buddhism and Contemplative Science in the next 10-15 years
In this bonus podcast, B. Alan Wallace is asked about his ideal vision of Buddhism and Contemplative Science in "The West" (or modernity) for the next 10-15 years. Alan first describes his own term, …
00:44:39 |
Sun 02 May 2010
Compassion: Focusing on the Underlying Causes (and one more superb example for the Mind/Brain talk from yesterday!)
We start with a very precise introduction of how mental afflictions are afflictions because they are rooted in delusion. Some feelings can be either very positive or afflictive depending on the above…
01:33:46 |
Sat 01 May 2010
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