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
37 Empathetic Joy, part 2
Alan continues his talk by emphasizing that hedonic pleasure cannot be the sole measure of something good/beneficial. Only through difficulties we encounter with others can we develop the paramitas.…
01:40:19 |
Fri 16 Sep 2011
36 Awareness of Awareness, part 2
Shamatha without a sign is a process of discovery and exploration rather than development. It involves experiencing and discovering, through one's own experience the natural states of mind of bliss,…
00:44:23 |
Fri 16 Sep 2011
35 Empathetic Joy, part 1
Alan discusses how to approach one’s shamatha practice in a wise way - not by focusing upon “how it went” but rather on one’s application and effort. One should see that in every moment, no matter h…
01:36:25 |
Thu 15 Sep 2011
33 Compassion focused on ubiquitous suffering
Talk
Last night’s discussion of pointing out instructions may have left some feeling hopeless as so many of the qualified teachers have died. Important to know that if receive authentic teachings th…
01:37:40 |
Thu 15 Sep 2011
32 Settling the Mind in its Natural State, part 3
Talk
Comparison of breathing meditation and settling the mind in its natural state. Breathing meditation is best done in a quiet environment – settling the mind can be done in a noisy active environ…
00:43:08 |
Thu 15 Sep 2011
34 Awareness of Awareness, part 1
“Not in a million years”.
Alan discusses modern concepts of mindfulness and meditation practice, which involve mere non judgmental attention to the present moment and whatever arises in that moment…
00:39:39 |
Thu 15 Sep 2011
31 Compassion focused on the suffering of change
Dharma talk: Meditative cultivation of Compassion and the Suffering of Change
On the “most wanted” list of mental afflictions is hatred. Craving/attachment is the #1 culprit in the suffering of cha…
01:32:32 |
Wed 14 Sep 2011
30 Settling the Mind in its Natural State, part 2
In this session Alan talks about the parallels of settling the mind in its natural state with rigpa.
Nirvana and samsara are of one taste and without preference from the perspective of rigpa.
Relatio…
00:35:14 |
Tue 13 Sep 2011
29 Compassion focused on blatant suffering
Vast and Profound, it’s the minimum we can say about this afternoon’s session. Alan gave
us an exquisite exploration of the mechanics of the practice of Settling the mind in its
natural state: how by…
01:30:07 |
Tue 13 Sep 2011
28 Settling the Mind in its Natural State, part 1
This is the most used method in the Dzogchen tradition. Allowing thoughts, images, perceptions to arise in the space of the mind without labeling, categorizing, preference. Watch them arise from th…
00:37:39 |
Tue 13 Sep 2011
27 Loving Kindness, part 3
In this session we continue with the practice of loving-kindness.
Alan starts by talking on the meaning of having a day off from a contemplative perspective.
He then discusses the possibility that pr…
01:36:16 |
Sun 11 Sep 2011
26 Mindfulness of Breathing, third phase
Mindfulness of Breathing - focusing on the sensations at the apertures of the nostrils. Here we have the full synergy of relaxation, stability and vividness. As we relax the breathing slows down an…
00:32:35 |
Sun 11 Sep 2011
25 Loving kindness, part 2
Alan discusses on developing loving-kindness for even disagreeable people by starting with oneself (as for myself, also for you). Beware to avoid its near enemy: self-centered attachment. The trig…
01:33:58 |
Fri 09 Sep 2011
24 Mindfulness of Breathing, second phase
Observing the rise and fall of the abdomen is the most effective method for the subsiding of compulsive thoughts and to help quiet the mind. Coarse excitation is the primary imbalance in Stages 1-4 …
00:38:31 |
Fri 09 Sep 2011
23 Loving kindness for oneself
Return to loving kindness and the world of possibility. In imagination and in dream, one can create one’s reality completely. Alan adds visualization to the loving kindness practice and explores th…
01:30:37 |
Thu 08 Sep 2011
22 The infirmary
What does the preparatory practice of settling the body, speech and mind have to do with rats, fleas and the Black Plague? Why are we in modernity actually still living in the Dark Ages? All is rev…
00:38:47 |
Thu 08 Sep 2011
21 Equanimity, part 2
Introduction
Discussion of self cherishing and why it arises. Developing new habits – reconfiguring using the four immeasurable culminating in equanimity.
Settling the mind in its natural state – no…
01:30:24 |
Thu 08 Sep 2011
20 Awareness of Awarenesss, part 4
Introduction
Description of the difference between Awareness of Awareness practice and Open Presence/Open Awareness.
Imagine you are in a sensory deprivation tank so have no sensory input and Merl…
00:33:47 |
Thu 08 Sep 2011
19 Equanimity
Equanimity - the "crown jewel" of the Four Immeasurables
In both Shamatha and the Four Immeasurables, we cultivate balance and a sense of "evenness of heart." The Four Immeasurables are immeasurabl…
01:32:19 |
Tue 06 Sep 2011
18 Awareness of Awareness, part 3
A discussion of substrate, substrate consciousness and pristine awareness. How klishtamanas comes out of the alayavijñana creating a sense of "I am" and subject and object. Also a discussion of the d…
00:37:13 |
Tue 06 Sep 2011
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