Spring 2012 Shamatha Retreat
Spring 2012 shamatha retreat audio teachings with Alan Wallace. Live from the Thanyapura Mind Centre in Phuket, Thailand.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 94
- Years Active
- 2012
94 Loving-Kindness. Q&A
Aspiring for genuine happiness.
Unguided meditation not included.
Q&A
What do i have to do to achieve stage 4 outside of retreat?
What does full enlightenment mean?
93 Practice in the Spirit of Loving-Kindess, Q&A
We proceed directly into meditation with loving kindness for ourself, then spend the remaining time with Q&A.
Q&A (at 24:51)
* Subtlety of subjectivity in lucid dreams.
* Achieving shamatha while …
92 Morning Q&A
91 Practice in the Spirit of Loving-Kindness. Q&A
Enter your practice in the spirit of loving-kindness, particularly when the mind is prone to rumination. Consider the analogy of the horse saved from a burning barn, scared and frantic—never would yo…
90 Morning Q&A
89 A wellspring of good advice
Our shamatha practice can help keep us cognitively tuned while back in the big world, even if we can only practice briefly during the day. In times when we are fatigued from stress, full-body awarene…
88 The Four Immeasurables
Alan explains why the four immeasurables build a perfect system by each backing up one of the others.
Silent meditation
87 Awareness of Awareness (4)
We expand upon the two methods given by Panchen Lama Rinpoche of managing incoming thoughts: in the first, after flicking an arrow of thought, what remains in its place is awareness—a knowing devoid …
86 Equanimity
Alan gives the remaining two of Buddhaghosa's fourfold analyses of the four immeasurables, those of empathetic joy and of equanimity. The analyses consist of the false facsimile, the diametric opposi…
85 Awareness of Awareness (3)
When performed in the method described by Panchen Lama Rinpoche of letting thoughts emerge and dissolve on their own like a raven on a ship, awareness of awareness qualifies as a practice of shamatha…
84 Great Equanimity (1)
Alan elaborates the four modes of enlightened activities:
1. Pacifying color white
2. Enriching color gold
3. Power color red
4. Ferocity color blue
Silent Meditation
83 Awareness of Awareness
The stillness experienced in awareness of awareness is due to the absence of grasping. In sustaining this awareness we are observing nothing other than the substrate consciousness itself, though veil…
82 Great Empathetic Joy
81 Awareness of Awareness
As if we've become disciples in the 17th century, this evening we listen to the 4th Panchen Lama Rinpoche's teachings on awareness of awareness. Alan reads this translation to exemplify the uniformit…
80 Empathetic Joy
May we be a light that inspires others to draw on their own inner resources!
Silent meditation not included.
79 Settling the Mind in its Natural State (3)
In settling the mind in its natural state we seek to emulate viewing the substrate from the perspective of the substrate consciousness as a cognizant, luminous and unmediated experience of mental phe…
77 Settling The MInd in it's Natural State
In settling the mind in its natural state, by observing mental events without taking interest in their contents we develop a familiarity with their essential nature. By this we receive the benefit of…
76 Compassion Reflecting on Our Self-Centeredness
75 Settling the Mind in its Natural State
We begin tonight by reading an excerpt by Düdjom Lingpa describing the dzogchen practice of open presence and discussing its similitude to settling the mind in its natural state. The illusions of a l…