Alan Wallace Live from Phuket!
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Alan Wallace Live from Phuket!
Welcome! This is now an archive page for Dr. Alan Wallace’s teachings from the Spring 2010 Shamatha Retreat in the wonderful Phuket International Academy Mind Centre!This podcast feed was 100% created and updated by us (his students here in Phuket) so we can share Alan’s diamond-sharp teachings! Thi...
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Ending Where We Began: Equanimity Permeated With Loving Kindness
This afternoon may be the last podcast episode of Alan's lectures for this retreat. He started by returning to the hypothesis of saying that if we ali...
The Last Shamatha Practice
I know, I am quite the dramatic with my titles :)
With a bittersweet feeling we have come to the last group practice of Shamatha for this retrea...
Equanimity: Looking Ahead
This afternoon Alan started by sharing a story about his first meditation counsel with Geshe Rabten, and the two topics that he suggested for meditati...
Of Trust, Devotion, or Lack Thereof (+ Awareness of Awareness Practice)
This morning Alan starts by giving instructions on how to watch the opening game of the World Cup (Mexico-South Africa) on Friday, after being asked f...
Awareness of Awareness: Emerging through the Clouds of the Dense, Deluded, Compulsive Mind into Clear and Luminous Space
As we approach the end of the retreat, the lectures are getting more and more information packed and so are these summaries. I will say as I always do...
Empathetic Joy: Using our Mind as a Best Friend (+ great Q&A incl. a deep question about love and attachment).
The story Alan narrates at the very start of this episode comes because there was a dog outside the teaching hall, and as we were coming in for the le...
Awareness of Awareness: A Smooth Transition from the Space of the Mind
This morning, Alan said he would squeeze out every drop of knowledge he had left about this first method of Awareness of Awareness, so if you listen t...
Compassion: Investigating a Hypothesis about the Very Root of Suffering (and the importance of not taking Dharma out of context)
This afternoon Alan started by pointing out the modern tendency of being very harsh and strict with ourselves, and the need for Compassion. He then pr...
Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Sustaining a Continuity
This practice got separated from the previous episode for continuity purposes. As you might expect, we return for the final time to the practice of Se...
[Extra Bonus] Culminating in the Great Perfection: The Dzogchen View (Addendum)
In this morning session, Alan really woke us up (interpret that as you will) by making an addendum to this Sunday's bonus episode where we had a "spee...
[Bonus] The Philosophical Evolution of an Individual through all the Four Schools of Indian Buddhism, Culminating in the Great Perfection. In 45 minutes.
Yes, this is an ambitious title but as always the podcast episode does not fail to deliver the goods. However, I really won't even try to summarize al...
[Short Bonus]: How did ignorance and delusion arise in the first place? Will samsara end?
For this short bonus episode, I extracted a question that Elizabeth said was maybe unanswerable, about the very beginning of ignorance and delusion (a...
Compassion: Freeing Ourselves from the Underlying Causes of Suffering (Attachment/Craving)
In this afternoon practice, we focused not so much on the blatant form of suffering as we did yesterday, but on the underlying causes. In the introduc...
"The Tempest," Settling the Mind in its Natural State
This morning we returned to Settling the Mind in its Natural state, this time observing the foreground of events arising within the domain of the mind...
Compassion: Focusing on the Blatant Suffering
This afternoon we went into a very practical and powerful practice on Compassion, focusing on the blatant, glaring, obvious pain that can arise in bot...
Settling the Mind In its Natural State: Exploring Conceptually Unmediated Experience
If you have been subscribing to the podcast, you are probably very familiar with today's meditation. We practiced Settling the Mind in its Natural Sta...
Loving Kindness: Weaving the Present into the Future (+ Bodhicitta Discussion)
The introduction to today's practice was tailored to us here in Phuket in the sense that we are coming out of retreat soon, but it can be applied by e...
Mindfulness of Breathing: Practicing with the "glass half full" attitude
In today's mindfulness of breathing practice, Alan started by talking about the causes and solutions for the all too popular phenomenon of the "energy...
Opening the floodgates of our inner virtues ( + Loving Kindness practice)
This afternoon we started with a reflection on how many times we see people as just "flat images" or appearances arising to our minds. In the supermar...
Finding the balance between relaxation and effort (+ Breath Awareness practice)
This morning, Alan started by reading two short verses from the Dhammapada, (freshly translated by him last night) which are a very strong metaphor wi...
Analyzing the reality that we live in, and testing the biggest experiment that a human being can perform. (+ Loving Kindness Practice)
The beginning of this afternoon's lecture is a stunning, wisdom-packed reflection on the analysis of our own world view. Alan starts by giving an over...
Revisiting the Infirmary for the Last Time!
I'll try not to title all of the Shamatha episodes from today onwards with the phrase "for the last time," although we have come to the final cycle of...
[Bonus] Psychology, attention, and the urgent need for contemplative science.
A number of the past bonus podcasts had been geared towards the physicists, but this weekend we have some juice for psychologists! In this bonus podca...
[Bonus] Phuket Mind Observatory Plans / Neurofeedback Augmentation
In this bonus episode we cover some very interesting cognitive science/brain science questions from Noah.
The first question asks if meditation...
Entering the Great Path of the Bodhisattvas
In this afternoon's marvelous introduction, Alan talks about The Great Path of the Bodhisattvas, comparing it to a Freeway (using the American term)....
[Vesak] Special Meditation and the Story of The Buddha’s Enlightenment
This afternoon we started with a special guided meditation to commemorate the Buddha's Enlightenment, not specifically centered on Shamatha or the Fou...
Vesak Day Guided Meditation
Happy Vesak Day!
This morning we conmemorated the celebration of Buddha Śākyamuni's birth, enlightment, and parinirvana with a guided Sh...
[Bonus] A Sublime Explanation of Awareness of Awareness [Short]
I extracted this practical gem from this afternoon's lecture. It is a clear example of how the instructions to a practice can be profoundly meaningful...
Cultivating Self-Worth, Eliminating Pride, The Story of Alan’s First Meeting with HH. Dalai Lama back in 1971, and flowers.
Today we went directly into practice, which I removed from the recording to make it easier to listen to. As you know by now, just do your own practice...
Retaining the benefits of practice
This morning we had a silent meditation followed by a few brief tips. The tips cover a bit of posture, and then Alan talks about how the benefits of t...
[Short] The Expedition of Shamatha
This afternoon we went directly into meditation with no preamble, and had no outro directly pertaining to the meditation. So you can meditate for 24 m...
Starting a Two Week Retreat
This morning Alan suggested to adopt the attitute of starting a 2-week retreat. He humorously gave some very important points and tips about the pract...
Four Immeasurables / Four Best Friends
In today's lecture, Alan gave a very brief reflection for when we finish this retreat. As we know, the still, sustained focus / samadhi of our attenti...
"A Sacred Tension" that we might experience
In this episode, Alan talks about something that probably bothers many of us, and he calls it "A Sacred Tension." It is about our decision to either d...
Four Immeasurables: Using our anti-affliction arsenal correctly
This afternoon we started with a very practical introduction on how to draw from the 4I throughout the course of a normal day in our life after the re...
Flying Solo [Silent Practice]
This morning Alan started by saying that he would like to let us choose our own Shamatha method, for these next few days and perhaps for the rest of t...
[Bonus] The Whole Shamatha Story in one Session
In this short and sweet sunday bonus, we synthesized the three main methods of Shamatha into one practice. There is an extremely short introduction an...
Loving Kindness: "Coming back to the Beginning for the First Time"
This lovely afternoon we went back to the practice of Loving Kindness, using the phrase from T.S. Elliot in the title. We went straight into meditatio...
Equanimity: Making the task cosmical; Awakening the deepest dimension of our existence.
As you can probably tell by the title, today's practice was not you regular 4I practice. Sure, it did start out with a regular equanimity/Tonglen prac...
Awareness of Awareness: Probing into why we exist (the other side of the equation)
Alan "kickstarted" this morning [because he likes that word so much ;) ] with a healthy dose of Physics. He started talking about the following articl...