Alan Wallace Shamatha Teachings Fall 2010
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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- Session 92: (Discussion Only) A Final Teaching, and an Expression of Gratitude to Our Teacher
30 décembre 2010 · 1 h 13 min
Alan offers final words and we tearfully say goodbye. The session ends with a big group hug. - Session 91: (Discussion Only) Bringing Good Motivation into Daily Life
30 décembre 2010 · 43 min
Alan encourages us not to be discouraged when life dishes up difficult situations, and instead to bring our best motivation to daily life. - Session 90: (Discussion Only) Letting Our Minds Become Dharma
30 décembre 2010 · 39 min
Alan 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… - Session 89: (Discussion Only) Envisioning the Future You Would Love to Live
8 décembre 2010 · 1 h 03 min
Alan talks about envisioning something new for ourselves as we go back into situations that feel old and familiar. - Session 88: (Discussion Only) Genuine Happiness in Everyday Life
8 décembre 2010 · 36 min
As 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… - Session 87: (Discussion Only) Balancing Discipline and Gentleness and a Q&A Session
8 décembre 2010 · 1 h 05 min
In 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… - Session 86: (Discussion Only) Possible Effects of Shamatha on Cognitive Deterioration
19 novembre 2010 · 29 min
Alan 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… - Session 85: (Discussion only) The Four Immeasurables Keeping Tabs on Each Other
19 novembre 2010 · 1 h 31 min
This 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… - Session 84: (Discussion Only) Some Brief Remarks on Selecting Your Shamatha Practice
19 novembre 2010 · 27 min
Alan 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. - Session 83: Equanimity and a Great Encompassment of our Practices
19 novembre 2010 · 1 h 39 min
On 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… - Session 82: Awareness of Awareness, Shamatha That Can Assist at the Moment of Death
19 novembre 2010 · 60 min
This 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… - Session 81: Going Outward with Equanimity
19 novembre 2010 · 1 h 27 min
Equanimity 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.… - Session 80: Awareness of Awareness and Potentially the Last Soap Box Speech on Materialism
19 novembre 2010 · 51 min
This 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… - Session 79: Happy Gratitude and Empathetic Joy
19 novembre 2010 · 1 h 29 min
Alan 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… - Session 78: Deactivating the Coarse Mind with Awareness of Awareness
19 novembre 2010 · 37 min
Today 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,… - Session 77: Empathetic Joy and Sacred Tension
19 novembre 2010 · 1 h 35 min
In the Theravada context, cultivating Empathetic Joy (Mudita) is cultivating an emotion. There is so much to take delight in! This will add yeast to life regardless of one’s… - Session 76: A Clarification of Buddhist Mindfulness and Awareness of Awareness Practice
19 novembre 2010 · 58 min
There are some terms we shouldn’t misunderstand, because if we do, we can waste a lot of time of practice. Alan gave an explanation of such terms: mindfulness, open presence,… - Session 75: Compassion Practice and the Urge to Become
19 novembre 2010 · 1 h 29 min
The deepest level of suffering is caused by the three poisons, particularly the grasping to “I am.” While the “message of modernity” is that suffering is inescapable during life,… - Session 74: Attending to the Space of the Mind, and a Discussion of Dharmadatu and Dharmata
19 novembre 2010 · 59 min
In the intro, Alan explained the difference between the space of the mind with its 6 fields of experience (dharmadatu) and ultimate reality, nirvana, emptiness, absolute space of… - Session 73: The Five Obscurations Applied in Education and a Practice in Compassion
19 novembre 2010 · 1 h 33 min
Once more Alan gave us magnificent reflections about the 5 obscurations, which are responsible for the suffering of change. On this occasion he referred to these obscurations… - Session 72: Settling the Mind and Applying No Antidotes
19 novembre 2010 · 46 min
Good Morning to All Shamatha Minded Sentient Beings, This morning Alan went into more detail on settling the mind in its natural state. He opened with a quote from Dujom… - Session 71: Compassion and the Possibility of Ending Suffering in this Life
19 novembre 2010 · 1 h 34 min
This evening we return to compassion, with a focus on how Buddhism runs against the grain of modernity in terms of its approach to suffering. We can achieve lasting and total… - Session 70: Settling the Mind and Being a Student of Buddhism
18 novembre 2010 · 56 min
This morning we began the cycle of Settling the Mind in its Natural state following the instructions that the Buddha gave to Bahia “In the seen let just the seen be…” “In the… - Session 69: Loving-Kindness Practice Drawing From the Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana Traditions.
18 novembre 2010 · 1 h 30 min
Alan starts by mentioning that within all physical and mental impermanence, what remains always constant is a person that wants to be happy, loved and smiled back to. The… - Session 68: The Build-up to Mindfulness of Breathing (Apertures of the Nostrils)
18 novembre 2010 · 36 min
This morning Alan used the Russian-dolls imagery (the dolls that stuck within each other) as his mold. First, he applied it to our mindfulness of breathing practice. Settling the… - Session 67: Loving Kindness and Achieving a State of “Not Going” (Nirvana)
18 novembre 2010 · 1 h 32 min
Once again cultivating loving kindness through the practice of Tonglen, Alan advises to start with ourselves as we concentrate on our own merit and then move outwards to others.… - Session 66: Refining Mindfulness of Breathing with Stability
18 novembre 2010 · 33 min
“So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when… - Session 65: Freshening Up Our Loving Kindness Practice
18 novembre 2010 · 1 h 27 min
Discursive meditation, because it is repetitive, can become stale. Between sessions, look for sentient beings with whom to interact, each time is a fresh interaction. Add fresh… - Session 64: Back to the Infirmary and the Pure Land of Tushita
18 novembre 2010 · 44 min
Pressure in the head and headaches are not habits we should build while meditating. Therefore, this morning, Alan gave a detailed reminder of how this should be approached: back… - Session 63: (Discussion Only) Spiritual Friends, Setting a Sleep Schedule, the Suffering of Bodhisattvas, etc.
18 novembre 2010 · 1 h 04 min
Following a silent meditation session, Alan addressed a wide range of questions from students: Post-retreat advice regarding refuge, ethics, and the importance of spiritual… - Session 62: (Discussion Only) What it Means to Have a GREAT Meditation
18 novembre 2010 · 34 min
We started with a silent meditation with free choice on practicing one of the Shamatha practices. Then Alan gave some examples of the path of Shamatha. He joked that commenting… - Session 61: (Discussion Only) Encouragement for Practice, Expanding Awareness, Controversial Lamas, etc.
18 novembre 2010 · 1 h 14 min
We started with a silent meditation with free choice on practicing one or more of the Four Immeasurables. Then Alan gave a little bit of advice and encouragement to all the… - Session 60: Tonglen Suffused with Equanimity
18 novembre 2010 · 1 h 33 min
This evening we return to the practice of Immeasurable Equanimity, with some profound instructions drawn from Karma Chagme Rinpoche, a great Tibetan master and patriarch of the… - Session 59: Having Appropriate Expectations in our Awareness of Awareness Practice
18 novembre 2010 · 41 min
In this session Alan made an analogy between the practice of visualizing a Buddha image in the first stages of shamatha and the clarity we can expect to have in the first stages… - Session 58: Equanimity, Karma, Free Will and Penetrating Past Appearances
18 novembre 2010 · 1 h 33 min
Alan explains that Equanimity is similar to the Serenity prayer: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to… - Session 57: Awareness of Awareness and More on Catatonia-Inducing Materialism
18 novembre 2010 · 49 min
The point of awareness of awareness is NOT to prove that there’s no one who is aware because there is. Not finding any-specific-one who controls the attention and concluding that… - Session 56: Taking Delight with Empathetic Joy
18 novembre 2010 · 1 h 29 min
Alan reviews for us the process of cultivating empathetic joy. It is possible to find many rewards in this practice as he explores the unfolding of empathetic joy in its three… - Session 55: Awareness of Awareness and Cutting Firewood
18 novembre 2010 · 54 min
If you want firewood, you can trim off all the leaves and branches and wait for the tree to die and fall over. OR you can cut the tree down at its base - at the root, and you… - Session 54: Empathetic joy and Achieving Greater Balance by Attending to the Good in the World
18 novembre 2010 · 1 h 29 min
Strong mental afflictions catch our attention. We do not notice good deeds as much as bad. This is especially true of the media. We need to make a conscious effort to have an… - Session 53: Keeping it Simple in our Awareness of Awareness Practice
18 novembre 2010 · 53 min
Awareness of awareness is “the most profound practice” according to the Buddha, and he gave us this morning very meaningful advice on how to know we’re doing it correctly. You…
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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…
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