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
34 Effusion of Empathetic Joy and Gratitude
This afternoon's teaching is presented by Michelle Seaver, guest teacher and student of Alan Wallace, while Alan is out of town for 24 hours. Alan will return to his regular teaching during the next …
00:32:55 |
Fri 29 Apr 2011
33 Awareness of Awareness: Inversion
This morning's teaching is presented by Michelle Seaver, guest teacher and student of Alan Wallace, while Alan is out of town for 24 hours. Alan will return to his regular teaching schedule Saturday …
00:22:24 |
Fri 29 Apr 2011
32 Compassion at the Deepest Level
Today's teaching is presented by Michelle Seaver, guest teacher and student of Alan Wallace, while Alan is out of town for 24 hours. Alan will return to his regular teaching schedule Saturday morning…
00:48:37 |
Thu 28 Apr 2011
31 Settling the Mind in its Natural State
We explore the practice that Alan Wallace considers analogous in terms of understanding the mind to the telescope in terms of understanding what is in the heavens. We will focus on the relative dharm…
00:36:46 |
Thu 28 Apr 2011
30 Compassion and the Suffering of Change
Alan Wallace guides us in a 24-minute meditation on compassion, furthering this aspiration to recognize a deeper dimension of suffering -- the suffering of change. This type of suffering is brought a…
01:31:45 |
Wed 27 Apr 2011
29 Settling the Mind it its Natural State: Body to Mind
During this 24-minute guided meditation, Alan guides us in the practice of settling the mind in its natural state, beginning with the space of the body and moving to the space of the mind.
The guide…
00:37:53 |
Wed 27 Apr 2011
28 The Common Ground of Compassion
Alan Wallace guides a 24-minute meditation on compassion, asking the question, "How can we be free from suffering?" He teaches the use of a visualization of a radiant orb of light at one's heart, met…
01:41:18 |
Tue 26 Apr 2011
27 Settling the Mind in its Natural State
In this 24-minute guided meditation, Alan Wallace teaches us to view our own minds, including the whole space of the mind and all of the events that arise within that, from the perspective of the sub…
00:37:03 |
Tue 26 Apr 2011
26 Loving-Kindness Spatially
In this 24-minute guided meditation on loving-kindness, Alan Wallace focuses on sending this aspiration spatially, or through space in all directions, beginning with ourselves, and then out to those …
01:29:38 |
Mon 25 Apr 2011
25 Mindfulness of Breathing: The Classic Approach
Alan Wallace guides a 24-minute meditation on mindfulness of breathing, focusing on the balance between increasing vividness and maintaining the stability of the mind, also without the loss of relaxa…
00:34:00 |
Mon 25 Apr 2011
24 Loving-kindness for Self and Others
Alan Wallace guides a 24-minute meditation on loving-kindness, first for oneself, and then ultimately in all directions without barriers. He discusses the catalyst for the aspiration of loving-kindne…
01:30:06 |
Sat 23 Apr 2011
23 Mindfulness of Breathing: Grounding
This 24-minute guided meditation on mindfulness of breathing focuses on the tactile sensation of the breath in the abdomen, balancing stability and relaxation.
00:32:50 |
Sat 23 Apr 2011
22 Loving-Kindness: Visualizing One's own Happiness
The immeasurable of loving-kindness is guided through a 24-minute meditation which focuses on envisioning the causes and conditions for one's own happiness, achieving this happiness, and then sharing…
01:29:48 |
Fri 22 Apr 2011
21 Back to Basics: Mindfulness of Breathing
We return to the beginning of our 10-day cycle, starting again with mindfulness of breathing. Going to what Alan Wallace refers to as 'the infirmary,' this 24-minute guided meditation on the breath e…
00:31:39 |
Fri 22 Apr 2011
20 Equanimity Focused on Sentient Beings
In this afternoon session, Alan Wallace guides a 24-minute meditation on equanimity, focusing on the expression of equanimity for oneself and other sentient beings, including a dear friend, neutral p…
01:31:57 |
Thu 21 Apr 2011
19 Awareness of Awareness: Stretching
In this morning session, Alan Wallace guides us in a 24-mintute meditation on shamatha without a sign, or awareness of awareness, focusing on stretching this awareness in different directions: left, …
00:35:57 |
Thu 21 Apr 2011
18 Equanimity: A Theravaden Perspective
Alan Wallace teaches on the immeasurable of equanimity, or uppekha, focusing on a Theravaden perspective. This can be described as even-mindedness or emotional equilibrium.
During the following ques…
01:30:28 |
Wed 20 Apr 2011
17 Shamatha without a Sign: Awareness of Awareness
In this morning session, Alan Wallace guides a 24-minute session of shamatha without a sign, or the awareness of awareness. During the introduction, he speaks about the clear light of death, the bard…
00:37:34 |
Wed 20 Apr 2011
16 Empathetic Joy as an Aspiration
In this afternoon session, Alan Wallace guides us in a 24-minute meditation on mudita, or empathetic joy, from the perspective of mudita as an aspiration that all sentient beings never be parted from…
01:33:01 |
Tue 19 Apr 2011
15 Shamatha without a Sign: The Next Phase
In this morning session, Alan Wallace guides a 24-minute meditation on shamatha without a sign, focusing on probing into the nature of the mind and looking for the referent of the mind.
00:29:28 |
Tue 19 Apr 2011
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