Fall 2011 Shamatha Retreat
Dharma talks and guided meditations given six days per week during the Fall, 2011 eight-week Shamatha retreat at the Thanyapura Mind Centre in Phuket, Thailand, with B. Alan Wallace. Podcasts will be posted daily during the retreat.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 65 minutes
- Episodes
- 97
- Years Active
- 2011
77 Shamatha without a sign, part 2
Deep…During this extremely inspiring afternoon, Alan started by explaining how to recognize the object of attention of the practice of awareness of awareness for those that find this practice elusive…
01:38:25 |
Tue 11 Oct 2011
76 Empathetic Joy, part 2
Instruction and meditation on cultivating Empathetic Joy:
Calling upon the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and gurus for blessing and remembering that they are not outside of ourselves but within us.
Medi…
00:38:32 |
Tue 11 Oct 2011
75 Shamatha without a sign, part 1
Alan talks about the up and downs of the practice and how to keep the enthusiasm and where to draw the inspiration from. Then he shares an excerpt from Dudjom Lingpa's The Vajra Essence about the dif…
01:31:54 |
Sat 08 Oct 2011
74 Empathetic Joy, part 1
Why couldn't we all never be parted from genuine happiness free from suffering? Cultivating Empathetic Joy is not just an emotion but also an aspiration. When we take on the personal commitment, "M…
00:39:58 |
Sat 08 Oct 2011
73 Settling the mind in its natural state, part 3
Alan goes into greater detail about ascertaining the space of the mind between mental events in settling the mind. He explains the danger of complacency at Stages 4 and 7 and the importance of overc…
01:34:55 |
Fri 07 Oct 2011
72 Compassion, part 3
Compassion, understood as the suffering of conditioned phenomena, is conditioned by ignorance. Suffering in its broadest manifestation involves the understanding of a dualistic vision. How we tend …
00:38:37 |
Fri 07 Oct 2011
71 Settling the mind in its natural state, part 2
Alan takes us through a comparative study of texts from the time of the Buddha up until the 19th Century, comparing the way shamatha has been dealt with amongst a variety of Buddhist traditions. Med…
01:32:55 |
Thu 06 Oct 2011
70 Compassion, part 2
“Give up attachment to this life and let your mind become Dharma” Alan explains how to approach the suffering of change and elaborates on the role of shamatha in dealing with this particular kind of…
00:39:01 |
Thu 06 Oct 2011
69 Settling the mind in its natural state, part 1
Settling the mind in its natural state. When mental afflictions come up, if you recognize them as such, you have a choice regarding whether you act on them. If you don’t recognize them you will sim…
01:33:06 |
Thu 06 Oct 2011
68 Compassion, part 1
Meditation on Compassion. Why couldn’t we all be free from suffering and the causes of suffering? There is a dearth of knowledge regarding the causes of suffering. When resting in awareness of awa…
00:41:52 |
Thu 06 Oct 2011
67 Mindfulness of breathing, part 3
Instruction and meditation on Mindfulness of Breathing: the focus on anapanasatti (focusing on the sensations at the opening of the nostrils and/or on the upper lip under the nostrils)
The problem w…
01:35:51 |
Wed 05 Oct 2011
66 Loving kindness, part 3
We continue with the practice of metta, or loving kindness, expanding out as in the Pali suttas, combined with the Tibetan liturgy of Mahamaitri (great loving kindness)
Helping others can mean to hel…
00:39:27 |
Tue 04 Oct 2011
65 Mindfulness of breathing, part 2
Welcome to all! This afternoon Alan started by stating that stability is usually regarded as the core of the shamatha practice and how it is developed by the rope of mindfulness. Then following a tex…
01:32:27 |
Mon 03 Oct 2011
64 Loving kindness, part 2
Meditative cultivation of Loving Kindness: The focus was Great Loving Kindness, seeing through the outer manifestations of people, including ourselves, and attending to the essential Buddha nature of…
00:40:13 |
Mon 03 Oct 2011
63 Mindfulness of breathing, part 1
Once again we start the cycle, beginning with mindfulness of breathing. Alan first gives an overview of the whole path, from settling the body, speech and mind in their natural state, all the way up …
01:36:10 |
Sat 01 Oct 2011
62 Loving kindness, part 1
In this round, Alan will lay emphasis on the Mahayana approach to the 4 immeasurables. „Why can’t all sentient beings find happiness and the causes of happiness? May all sentient beings find happin…
00:31:16 |
Sat 01 Oct 2011
61 Shamatha without a sign, part 4
Alan reviews the process of relinquishing control/agency in the 3 shamatha practices. Given the buddhist assertion that something true should appear truer with increasing scrutiny, the truth of empt…
01:36:45 |
Fri 30 Sep 2011
60 Equanimity, part 2
Equanimity is the final fruition of the path. In the Theravada tradition, equanimity is envisioned as a composure of imperturbability, of not being thrown out of balance by adversity or felicity. I…
00:45:55 |
Fri 30 Sep 2011
59 Shamatha without a sign, part 3
Alan expands upon some of the ideas from physics he dealt with in the previous day’s talk and explains how the Dzogchen view and the Prasangika-Madhyamika view are complementary. He weaves this with…
01:31:52 |
Thu 29 Sep 2011
58 Equanimity, part 1
Alan covers the prerequisites for the development of equanimity, which involve one transcending one’s ordinary deluded outlook. He discusses how one may become able to do this: how one may cultivate…
00:39:00 |
Thu 29 Sep 2011
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