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
54 Taking Delight in Good Fortune
In this session, Alan Wallace guides a meditation on mudita, or empathetic joy. He first speaks for some time about the opportunity of a precious human birth, and the power contemplating this opportu…
01:36:20 |
Wed 11 May 2011
53 Awareness of Awareness
We again begin to explore the practice of awareness of awareness in this teaching and guided meditation with Alan Wallace. He speaks for a short while before the guided meditation about the significa…
00:38:53 |
Wed 11 May 2011
52 Wisdom and Compassion
In this teaching, Alan Wallace guides a meditation on compassion for the deepest kind of suffering: the suffering of conditioned existence. He informs us that the cultivation of wisdom from insight i…
01:30:59 |
Tue 10 May 2011
51 Observing the Space of the Mind
We continue to practice setting the mind in its natural state, today focusing on observing the space of the mind without alteration.
The guided meditation begins at 9:20 in the recording.
00:35:47 |
Tue 10 May 2011
50 Attachment and Compassion
Today's session begins with an inspiring and lucid twenty-minute dharma talk about the four noble truths, particularly the first three noble truths. This is followed by a guided meditation on the imm…
01:38:30 |
Mon 09 May 2011
49 Settling the Mind in its Natural State
Alan Wallace guides a 24-minute guided meditation on settling the mind in its natural state. He first introduces the practice of applying this quality of awareness to our experiences engaging with ot…
00:39:13 |
Mon 09 May 2011
48 Compassion and Freedom from Blatant Suffering
Alan Wallace begins today's teaching with a 40-minute dharma talk that could be titled, "Retreat and Expedition Approaches to Freedom from Blatant Suffering." In this engaging talk, Alan surveys the …
01:29:29 |
Sat 07 May 2011
47 In The Seen, Let There Be Just The Seen
We return to the practice of settling the mind in its natural state. In the guided meditation, we bring the quality of quiet, bare attention to the visual, auditory, tactile, and then the mental fiel…
00:42:53 |
Sat 07 May 2011
46 Boundless Loving-Kindness
This simple approach to loving-kindness was taught by the Buddha himself. We will be extending the awareness out spatially in all directions -- without bounds -- but first requesting that we be free …
01:31:22 |
Fri 06 May 2011
45 Increasing Vividness with Mindfulness of Breathing
Alan Wallace guides in the third phase of mindfulness of breathing, which focuses on enhancing vividness without sacrificing stability. During this meditation, we place our awareness on the sensation…
00:31:22 |
Fri 06 May 2011
44 Breaking Barriers with Loving-Kindness
In this guided meditation, we follow in the footsteps of Buddhaghosa, expressing loving-kindness sequentially, from ourselves, to a very dear loved one, a more casual loved one, and then out and out …
01:32:05 |
Thu 05 May 2011
43 Grounding in Mindfulness of Breathing
In this session, Alan Wallace guides us through the second method of mindfulness of breathing, which focuses on grounding one's attention in the sensations of breath in the abdomen. He reminds us tha…
00:34:24 |
Thu 05 May 2011
42 Imagining Loving-Kindness for Oneself
Alan Wallace guides us through the immeasurable of loving-kindness, leading us to imagine our own happiness both on a hedonic and a deeper level.
The guided meditation begins at 9:50 in the recordin…
01:32:43 |
Wed 04 May 2011
41 Settling Body, Speech and Mind in their Natural State
We return again to the beginning of the 10-session cycle of guided meditations on shamatha with settling the body, speech and mind in their natural state.
Guided meditation begins at 10:50 in the re…
00:35:32 |
Wed 04 May 2011
40 Equanimity, Loving-Kindness, and Compassion
During the first part of this podcast, Alan Wallace guides us through a meditation on equanimity, blending the other immeasurable of loving-kindness and compassion to create a beautiful trio.
The gu…
01:31:57 |
Tue 03 May 2011
39 Stretching Awareness of Awareness
This morning, Alan Wallace guides a meditation on the awareness of awareness, teaching us to expand and stretch this awareness spatially, literally increasing the space of the mind.
The guided medit…
00:35:05 |
Tue 03 May 2011
38 Cultivating Equanimity Towards All
In the initial guided meditation on equanimity, Alan Wallace encourages us to use wisdom to discern the difference between behavior and the person expressing that behavior.
The guided meditation beg…
01:28:56 |
Mon 02 May 2011
37 The Observer and Awareness of Awareness
During this morning session with Alan Wallace, we are led in a guided meditation on awareness of awareness. Within this context, we probe deeply into our experience of being the observer, and ask the…
00:36:55 |
Mon 02 May 2011
36 The Roots of Empathetic Joy
This afternoon's guided meditation on the immeasurable of empathetic joy focuses on cultivating the underlying causes of genuine happiness and flourishing. Alan Wallace reminds us that Tsongkhapa sai…
01:31:53 |
Sat 30 Apr 2011
35 Awareness of Awareness
Alan Wallace guides a 24-minute meditation on awareness of awareness, teaching us to invert the awareness deeply, attending closely to the evidence of someone - an agent - in one's mind that stands a…
00:30:10 |
Sat 30 Apr 2011
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