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Alan Wallace Shamatha Teachings Fall 2010
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Welcome! On this site you’ll find downloadable podcasts from the Fall 2010 Shamatha Retreat led by B. Alan Wallace in Phuket, Thailand. Follow along with the retreat as Wallace gives daily meditation instructions to help one cultivate attention and awareness as well as the qualities of love, compassion, joy and equanimity. Read more about Alan Wallace’s extensive background in Tibetan Buddhism at http://www.alanwallace.org/index.htm. Check out the Phuket International Academy Mind Centre at http://www.phuketinternationalacademy.com/piamc/phuket-international-academy-mind-centre. Also, feel free to check out the following forum to connect with other Shamatha practitioners: http://contemplativeobservatory.weebly.com/forum.html#/
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Welcome! On this site you’ll find downloadable podcasts from the Fall 2010 Shamatha Retreat led by B. Alan Wallace in Phuket, Thailand. Follow along with the retreat as Wallace gives daily meditation instructions to help one cultivate attention and awareness as well as the qualities of love, compassion, joy and equanimity. Read more about Alan Wallace’s extensive background in Tibetan Buddhism at http://www.alanwallace.org/index.htm. Check out the Phuket International Academy Mind Centre at http://www.phuketinternationalacademy.com/piamc/phuket-international-academy-mind-centre. Also, feel free to check out the following forum to connect with other Shamatha practitioners: http://contemplativeobservatory.weebly.com/forum.html#/
We hope you will enjoy and benefit from these beautiful teachings!
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We hope you will enjoy and benefit from these beautiful teachings!
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×1 Session 92: (Discussion Only) A Final Teaching, and an Expression of Gratitude to Our Teacher 1:13:26
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1:13:26Alan offers final words and we tearfully say goodbye. The session ends with a big group hug.
1 Session 91: (Discussion Only) Bringing Good Motivation into Daily Life 42:34
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42:34Alan encourages us not to be discouraged when life dishes up difficult situations, and instead to bring our best motivation to daily life.
1 Session 90: (Discussion Only) Letting Our Minds Become Dharma 39:10
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39:10Alan discusses bringing wholesome intentions into our daily lives as a way of letting our minds become dharma. Though we will continue to be mentally afflicted, if we can see our mental afflictions for what they are, we will be able to act on them less and less.
1 Session 89: (Discussion Only) Envisioning the Future You Would Love to Live 1:03:09
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1:03:09Alan talks about envisioning something new for ourselves as we go back into situations that feel old and familiar.
1 Session 88: (Discussion Only) Genuine Happiness in Everyday Life 35:56
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35:56As we anticipate the end of retreat, Alan mentions that the effects of retreat will not be lost as we go out and engage with the world. Genuine happiness can certainly arise outside of a retreat, as we go out into the world and lead an ethical way of life.
1 Session 87: (Discussion Only) Balancing Discipline and Gentleness and a Q&A Session 1:04:50
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1:04:50In this talk, Alan encourages us to continue our practice in a spirit of loving-kindness for ourselves. He then answers questions about Arhats, colors of traditional monastic robes, and oracle to the Dalai Lama, Khandro La.
1 Session 86: (Discussion Only) Possible Effects of Shamatha on Cognitive Deterioration 29:28
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29:28Alan offers some brief remarks on the 5 Dhana factors, as well some of the possible implications of Buddhist mindfulness on memory loss associated with aging. This is followed by a silent meditation.
1 Session 85: (Discussion only) The Four Immeasurables Keeping Tabs on Each Other 1:31:02
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1:31:02This time Alan gave us advice on how to maintain protection from imbalances once we engage in daily life activities and that is becoming more and more familiar with the practices of the Four Immeasurables regarding them as our 4 best friends. We should know that whatever situation comes up there is a chance to practice. He shared a marvelous metaphor of 4 mighty horses (Four Immeasurables) pulling the chariot leading to awakening and when one of the horses falls stray there is always another one who helps bringing balance to the one that went off track into a false facsimile. The session continued with a free meditation, and ended with 5 very interesting questions and answers.…
1 Session 84: (Discussion Only) Some Brief Remarks on Selecting Your Shamatha Practice 26:48
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26:48Alan offers some brief remarks on choosing which practice we’d like to engage in during these silent meditations. This is followed by an unguided 24 minute Gatika.
1 Session 83: Equanimity and a Great Encompassment of our Practices 1:39:00
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1:39:00On this, the last night of led practice for this retreat, Alan first teaches on how the cultivation of shamatha and the four immeasurables are profoundly inter-related. With shamatha, we withdraw inwards, away from our ordinary identification with the limitations of our physical embodiment and our coarse psyche. Then with the four immeasurables, we expand outwards to identify with all beings. While leading the meditation on equanimity, we are guided briefly through all modes of shamatha and then into the practice of tonglen. Following the practice, Alan speaks at length about benign spirit possession and about the state oracle for the Tibetan government.…
1 Session 82: Awareness of Awareness, Shamatha That Can Assist at the Moment of Death 59:34
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59:34This morning we had the last guided Shamatha meditation. Alan explained how in this transient world in which all things that are born have to die, we can tap into the substrate consciousness and even though it is also impermanent in the sense that it changes moment by moment, it is a continuum that carries from one life to the next. It is present even during deep dreamless sleep, comatose and general anesthesia and that’s the reason that we can wake up again. When dying, if you have achieved Shamatha you can follow the process. After the black out if you have Shamatha it will be luminous, then your substrate consciousness dissolves into the clear light of death and you get access to Rigpa. When resting in the clear light there are physical signs that have been witnessed by medical doctors several times, even though the breathing and heart beating has stopped, there is no decomposition of the body, the skin is fresh and the area of the heart remains warm. Then we practiced awareness of awareness directing our attention to the space in different directions.…
1 Session 81: Going Outward with Equanimity 1:27:12
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1:27:12Equanimity is understood as a sense of composure in engaging with life situations and persons as well as even heartedness. Is an attitude transformation that gives you freedom. Since you conceptually designate, you can change the designation and there lies the power to be totally present, engaged, without grasping. Fully alive, revolutionary! It’s possible since we never leap outside the space of our minds. We then meditated on Equanimity. Suggested that we read the Patience or Fortitude chapter from Shantideva’s “Way of the Bodhisattva” for the occasions when you are mistreated. Be decent. Sprinkle kindness al around you. Wish well to strangers. That’s totally without attachment. There are no Buddhas without patience!. Then Alan spoke on Dzogchen, the spirit of emergence, subjective experiences, the role of information and Prana.…
1 Session 80: Awareness of Awareness and Potentially the Last Soap Box Speech on Materialism 50:46
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50:46This morning Alan took another stab at modern scientific reductionism – the tendency to reduce everything to an objective, solid reality, independent of an observer. He cited William James’ experience at Harvard Medical School in the 1860s to show that the idea of the brain being the agent – the source of consciousness- actually pre-dated any significant discoveries about the brain and its functions. All along, however, there have been people like William James himself and the entire Buddhist tradition who have claimed that the brain constricts consciousness rather than being its source. This is where Buddhism and modern scientific reductionism clash. According to Buddhist contemplatives and some modern thinkers who are being successfully ignored – in the mind-brain relationship, it is the mind (experience), not the brain (matter) that is primary and not vice versa. We then proceeded to investigate for ourselves, who does what in our own contemplative laboratories.…
1 Session 79: Happy Gratitude and Empathetic Joy 1:29:22
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1:29:22Alan begins this session with an inspirational story about one of his foremost teachers, Geshe Rabten. This humble lama, who had completed years of scholarly work and consultation studies with the Dalai Lama, found true contentment in life as he meditated under a simple rock shelf. His dedication to this single pointed purpose demonstrates a shining example of loving-kindness as a practice. “Dharma”, Alan says, ”is Bodhicitta. We must meditate on it, cultivate it, and then allow it to flow through us.” This is the dance between the Four Immeasurables and Shamatha practice. Their integration will facilitate us on our path to liberation: “Shamatha is in the service of the Four Immeasurables.”…
1 Session 78: Deactivating the Coarse Mind with Awareness of Awareness 36:44
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36:44Today we take an excursion into our experienced sense of being the observer and probe inward to investigate. The practice - awareness of awareness – deactivates the coarse mind, the mind with which we identify. We do our best to do the practice from the vantage point of the substrate. Practiced correctly, shamatha will rise up to meet us. “Our practice here is softening [us] up for vipashyana.” Likewise with all the practices along the path, each prepares us for the next. “Let Buddha-hood rise up to meet you.”…
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