Spring 2011 Shamatha Retreat
Dharma talks and guided meditations given six days per week during the Spring, 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
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 95
- Years Active
- 2011
74 Contentment and Mudita
This afternoon's session begins with a 50 minute Dharma talk in which Alan Wallace invites us to consider whether we are content, satisfied, perhaps even willing to rejoice in the current trajectory …
01:03:09 |
Mon 23 May 2011
73 Pure Being
In this morning's session we return to the practice of awareness of awareness. Alan first introduces the technique of oscillation between withdrawal from all appearances and release into space, or no…
00:08:43 |
Mon 23 May 2011
72 The Origins of Suffering
This afternoon, Alan first gives a Dharma talk relating to the deepest type of suffering to which we are vulnerable: the pervasive suffering of composite, or conditioned, existence. He asks the quest…
01:35:17 |
Sat 21 May 2011
71 Settling the Mind, Phase Three
This morning, Alan first reviews the practice of settling the mind in its natural state, both in theory and in practice. This is followed by an unguided meditation that begins at 12:00 in the recordi…
00:38:24 |
Sat 21 May 2011
70 Responding to the Reality of Change
This afternoon, Alan first gives a lengthy Dharma talk about different methods for responding to the reality of change. He contrasts the materialistic and Buddhist views, and goes into detail about h…
00:44:24 |
Fri 20 May 2011
69 The Power of Settling the Mind
Alan first speaks for 15 minutes about the benefits of the practice of settling the mind in its natural state and its use in freeing ourselves from our habitual propensities of craving, aversion, and…
00:41:05 |
Fri 20 May 2011
68 Gaining Understanding, Insight, and Confidence
Alan begins this afternoon's session with a lengthy dharma talk on cultivating confidence in the practices, now that we have two full weeks of silent retreat remaining. He also sets up today's medita…
01:31:29 |
Thu 19 May 2011
67 Settling the Mind in its Natural State
This morning continues with unguided meditations. Alan first speaks briefly about the tendency to identify with the body and mind as oneself. This practice is particularly effective in eradicating th…
00:36:39 |
Thu 19 May 2011
66 Loving-Kindness and Feelings of Separation
Another unguided meditation this afternoon, first introduced with a description of the obstacle of feeling separate from others, and how this impedes the flow of loving-kindness.
The unguided medita…
01:26:13 |
Wed 18 May 2011
65 Vivid Mindfulness of Breathing
This morning, Alan first reviews the instructions for the third phase of mindfulness of breathing, with the attention placed on the sensations of the breath at the aperture of the nostrils. We then s…
00:33:21 |
Wed 18 May 2011
64 Loving-Kindness and Q&A
This afternoon we continue with unguided meditations. Alan first reviews the meditation on loving-kindness for others in the tradition of Buddhaghosa, first for oneself, then a dearly loved friend, t…
01:32:30 |
Tue 17 May 2011
63 Mindfulness of Breathing, Phase Two
This morning, Alan first reviews the practice of mindfulness of breathing, the second phase, with its emphasis on the somatic sensations of the breath in the abdomen, while maintaining relaxation and…
00:35:54 |
Tue 17 May 2011
62 Sleepitation, Loving-Kindness, and Q&A
In this afternoon's session, Alan first gives advice on the sleep imbalances that can arise during retreat (or outside of retreat) and introduces us to the practice of "sleepitation" to ground onesel…
01:32:37 |
Mon 16 May 2011
61 The Cultivation of Relaxation
The next three morning sessions will be unguided meditations on the first three stages of mindfulness of breathing. This morning, Alan first speaks briefly about the importance of the cultivation of …
00:32:52 |
Mon 16 May 2011
60 Even-Heartedness for All Sentient Beings
In this session, we approach the immeasurable of equanimity from a Mahayana perspective, using the practice of tonglen (sending and receiving) to attend to individual sentient beings.
The guided med…
01:29:39 |
Sat 14 May 2011
59 Expanding One's Awareness of Awareness
In this morning session, Alan Wallace guides a meditation on the awareness of awareness practice. Today, we intentionally send our awareness above, to the right, to the left, below, to the heart cent…
00:29:03 |
Sat 14 May 2011
58 Emotional Equilibrium and Mental Imperturbability
Alan Wallace begins this afternoon's session with the question, "When a desire arises, how does one know whether it is desire (wholesome) or craving (unwholesome)?" He explores practical answers to t…
01:32:58 |
Fri 13 May 2011
57 The Witness of Awareness (of Awareness)
In this morning session, Alan Wallace guides a meditation of awareness of awareness, focusing on the lived sense, the actual sense one has, of being the witness, or observer, of all that is 'over the…
00:33:50 |
Fri 13 May 2011
56 Empathetic Joy for the Causes and Fruits of Happiness
In this session, Alan Wallace guides a meditation on empathetic joy, emphasizing taking delight and joy in both the causes of genuine happiness and the material fruits of this happiness. In his intro…
01:31:43 |
Thu 12 May 2011
55 The Second Phase of Awareness of Awareness
In this morning session, we follow Padmasambhava's teachings in this second phase of the awareness of awareness practice. Our quest is not to look and find nothing, but rather to look for something t…
00:50:59 |
Thu 12 May 2011
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