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
Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Self-Knowing and Observing the Mind Heal Itself
This morning we had a short but sweet introduction on the mind’s capacity to heal itself and how the traditional sciences can cooperate with the contemplative science, come together, and share their …
00:30:08 |
Sat 01 May 2010
[Bonus] Explaining Mind and Brain: The mind exists, and it is something different than the brain.
In this podcast, B. Alan Wallace, Ph. D., answers a question involving having a friendly discussion about the relationship between mind and brain (don't we all have those with our friends all the tim…
00:33:56 |
Fri 30 Apr 2010
Compassion: Arousing the Heart (And a strong reflection on modern Dharma practice)
Tonight we had a 5 minute introduction to the practice of Compassion and how to do it properly, as well as a reflection on the effect of Tonglen.
Afterwards we go straight to the practice.
After th…
01:00:50 |
Fri 30 Apr 2010
Settling the Mind in its Natural State (setting the stage for a great discussion of modern scientific materialism and the mind)
Today got quite long for a morning practice, but it was very interesting! Alan immediately got going with a very sharp discussion of the current status of acceptance that cognitive sciences or even j…
00:48:08 |
Fri 30 Apr 2010
Loving Kindness: Breaking Our Self-Centeredness
We start with a few comments about the term "Loving Kindness" and definitions of love (neodarwinism, scientific materialism, freud, all the goodies) and the shortcomings of looking at human beings as…
01:30:55 |
Thu 29 Apr 2010
Breath Awareness: “Classic” Practice
This morning we had a 4 minuteintroduction on achieving Shamatha with breath awareness (and the acquired sign), followed by a classic, old school practice as taught by Buddhaghosa and practiced for m…
00:30:55 |
Thu 29 Apr 2010
Loving Kindness: Developing Motivation for the Practice
This podcast is centered around a Loving Kindness practice designed to help develop joy and vision for our Shamatha practice, but it will work for many things. As almost always we start with a very g…
00:47:27 |
Wed 28 Apr 2010
Breath Awareness: The Rise and Fall of the Abdomen
This morning we went back to the valuable practice of settling the attention on the rise and fall of the abdomen, a "transitional" practice. The podcast starts with an introduction about struggles, t…
00:41:35 |
Wed 28 Apr 2010
Loving Kindness: A Remedy for Infatuation with Samsara
We start with a great introduction on the Four Inmeasurables and how they interrelate based on Buddhaghosa and the Tibetan Buddhism perspective, including the "faux facsimiles" or close but very dist…
01:32:00 |
Tue 27 Apr 2010
Back to the Infirmary: Full Body Awareness
This morning we started the cycle all over again with a delicious soothing practice of Full-Body awareness (or as Alan calls it, "The Infirmary!") He also gives a very brief introduction on why it is…
00:31:22 |
Tue 27 Apr 2010
Equanimity: Closing the Circle (with a spice of Tonglen)
Today we also finished the basic cycle of the Four Inmeasurables with another practice of equanimity.
We first get an introduction to the sheer importance of the practices of Four Inmeasurables (and…
01:27:30 |
Mon 26 Apr 2010
Awareness of Awareness: A Final Method in the Cycle
Today we practiced the last method in the "cycle" of Shamatha methods for this course. It is the final variation of Awareness of Awareness. In this podcast we go straight into the meditation followed…
00:32:55 |
Mon 26 Apr 2010
[Bonus] A Followup to Thursday’s Nirvana/Rigpa Answer. A Jewel of a Lecture.
It’s Sunday (for us!) and here is the bonus I promised!
After yesterday's practice on Equanimity, Alan said he had to add a couple of "footnotes" to the question about Nirvana and Rigpa from two day…
00:29:59 |
Sun 25 Apr 2010
Equanimity: Breaking the “I-It” Relationship with Ourselves
This afternoon we started with more cultivation of equanimity, specifically dispelling the "I-It" relationship with ourselves. First we had a great introduction to the concept, a couple of questions …
01:01:42 |
Sat 24 Apr 2010
Awareness of Awareness: Third Method in the Cycle
In this morning session, we went straight into an Awareness of Awareness meditation with some extra techniques. Short and sweet! This is the third method in our Awareness of Awareness cycle.
(You ma…
00:26:08 |
Sat 24 Apr 2010
Meditation and Reflections on Equanimity (and a very interesting “deep water” question)
This afternoon we meditated on the fourth of the 4 Immeasurables: Equanimity.
There is a preamble on Equanimity, followed by the meditation and by some reflections of the importance of this practice…
01:33:55 |
Fri 23 Apr 2010
Awareness of Awareness: A Second Method
This morning we practiced a slightly different method Awareness of Awareness, or Shamatha without a sign.
After the meditation, there is a short section on insomnia and anxiety that can arise when i…
00:28:58 |
Fri 23 Apr 2010
[Bonus] Awareness of Awareness Question Followed by a Very Enlightening Explanation
One of the things we love about Alan is his ability to answer a single question with a 30 minute reply in which he not only answers the question completely but he explores all of the branches and lea…
00:33:11 |
Thu 22 Apr 2010
Empathetic Joy and Reflections on Guilt and Remorse
This afternoon we went straight into a practice of empathetic joy, followed by a reflection on guilt, remorse, and how empathetic joy (mudita) can affect our deeds. Afterwards there is just a short Q…
01:02:14 |
Thu 22 Apr 2010
Shamatha Without a Sign - As taught by Padmasambhava
A brief preface to the practice of Shamatha Without a Sign as taught by Padmasambhava, followed by a 24 minute practice and some commentary on the practice as well as some tips as to how to maintain …
00:34:51 |
Thu 22 Apr 2010
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