Alan Wallace Live from Phuket!
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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!
This podcast was created live every day during the retreat in 2010. We will still maintain this site because the teachings are timeless. For more information, please contact the great people at info@sbinstitute.com !
This podcast feed was 100% created and updated by us (his students here in Phuket) so we can share Alan’s diamond-sharp teachings!
This podcast was created live every day during the retreat in 2010. We will still maintain this site because the teachings are timeless. For more information, please contact the great people at info@sbinstitute.com !
| Episode | Date |
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Ending Where We Began: Equanimity Permeated With Loving Kindness
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Jun 11, 2010 |
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The Last Shamatha Practice
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Jun 11, 2010 |
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Equanimity: Looking Ahead
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Jun 10, 2010 |
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Of Trust, Devotion, or Lack Thereof (+ Awareness of Awareness Practice)
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Jun 10, 2010 |
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Awareness of Awareness: Emerging through the Clouds of the Dense, Deluded, Compulsive Mind into Clear and Luminous Space
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Jun 09, 2010 |
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Empathetic Joy: Using our Mind as a Best Friend (+ great Q&A incl. a deep question about love and attachment).
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Jun 08, 2010 |
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Awareness of Awareness: A Smooth Transition from the Space of the Mind
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Jun 08, 2010 |
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Compassion: Investigating a Hypothesis about the Very Root of Suffering (and the importance of not taking Dharma out of context)
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Jun 07, 2010 |
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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Sustaining a Continuity
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Jun 07, 2010 |
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[Extra Bonus] Culminating in the Great Perfection: The Dzogchen View (Addendum)
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Jun 07, 2010 |
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[Bonus] The Philosophical Evolution of an Individual through all the Four Schools of Indian Buddhism, Culminating in the Great Perfection. In 45 minutes.
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Jun 06, 2010 |
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[Short Bonus]: How did ignorance and delusion arise in the first place? Will samsara end?
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Jun 06, 2010 |
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Compassion: Freeing Ourselves from the Underlying Causes of Suffering (Attachment/Craving)
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Jun 05, 2010 |
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"The Tempest," Settling the Mind in its Natural State
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Jun 05, 2010 |
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Compassion: Focusing on the Blatant Suffering
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Jun 04, 2010 |
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Settling the Mind In its Natural State: Exploring Conceptually Unmediated Experience
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Jun 04, 2010 |
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Loving Kindness: Weaving the Present into the Future (+ Bodhicitta Discussion)
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Jun 03, 2010 |
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Mindfulness of Breathing: Practicing with the "glass half full" attitude
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Jun 03, 2010 |
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Opening the floodgates of our inner virtues ( + Loving Kindness practice)
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Jun 02, 2010 |
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Finding the balance between relaxation and effort (+ Breath Awareness practice)
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Jun 02, 2010 |
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Analyzing the reality that we live in, and testing the biggest experiment that a human being can perform. (+ Loving Kindness Practice)
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Jun 01, 2010 |
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Revisiting the Infirmary for the Last Time!
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Jun 01, 2010 |
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[Bonus] Psychology, attention, and the urgent need for contemplative science.
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May 30, 2010 |
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[Bonus] Phuket Mind Observatory Plans / Neurofeedback Augmentation
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May 30, 2010 |
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Entering the Great Path of the Bodhisattvas
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May 29, 2010 |
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[Vesak] Special Meditation and the Story of The Buddha’s Enlightenment
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May 28, 2010 |
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Vesak Day Guided Meditation
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May 28, 2010 |
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[Bonus] A Sublime Explanation of Awareness of Awareness [Short]
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May 27, 2010 |
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Cultivating Self-Worth, Eliminating Pride, The Story of Alan’s First Meeting with HH. Dalai Lama back in 1971, and flowers.
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May 27, 2010 |
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Retaining the benefits of practice
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May 27, 2010 |
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[Short] The Expedition of Shamatha
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May 26, 2010 |
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Starting a Two Week Retreat
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May 26, 2010 |
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Four Immeasurables / Four Best Friends
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May 25, 2010 |
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"A Sacred Tension" that we might experience
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May 25, 2010 |
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Four Immeasurables: Using our anti-affliction arsenal correctly
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May 24, 2010 |
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Flying Solo [Silent Practice]
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May 24, 2010 |
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[Bonus] The Whole Shamatha Story in one Session
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May 23, 2010 |
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Loving Kindness: "Coming back to the Beginning for the First Time"
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May 22, 2010 |
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Equanimity: Making the task cosmical; Awakening the deepest dimension of our existence.
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May 21, 2010 |
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Awareness of Awareness: Probing into why we exist (the other side of the equation)
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May 21, 2010 |
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Equanimity: Striking a balance between fluidity and structure
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May 20, 2010 |
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Awareness of Awareness: Warming up for the long run
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May 20, 2010 |
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Empathetic Joy (Silent Meditation), Q&A
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May 19, 2010 |
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Awareness of Awareness: Deconstructing the artificial problem of mind and matter by going down to the root from which both emerge
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May 19, 2010 |
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Empathetic Joy: Balancing some of the possible side effects of so much Shamatha practice!
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May 18, 2010 |
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Awareness of Awareness: Understanding the Nature of Consciousness (Going against the Dogma!)
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May 18, 2010 |
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Combining Compassion and Loving Kindness: An Enriched Tonglen
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May 17, 2010 |
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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Allowing the mind to heal itself
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May 17, 2010 |
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[Bonus] *Follow-up*
Clearing up a few points and a profoundly encouraging ending
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May 16, 2010 |
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[Bonus] The nature of information, mind and matter, human existence as a flow of experience/information, quantum cosmology, etc.
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May 16, 2010 |
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[Bonus] The Four Immeasurables
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May 16, 2010 |
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Compassion: Freedom from the three levels of suffering
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May 15, 2010 |
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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Sharpening the Vividness
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May 15, 2010 |
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Compassion: Separating the Mental Affliction from the Person
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May 14, 2010 |
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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Coming into our HQ and releasing control
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May 14, 2010 |
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Compassion: Blowing the Dust of our Eyes
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May 13, 2010 |
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[Message From Alan] Science and Buddhism Colloquium at University of Oxford
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May 13, 2010 |
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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Coming in From the Senses
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May 13, 2010 |
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Loving Kindness: Breaking down the Barriers
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May 12, 2010 |
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Breath Awareness: Getting in the flow
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May 12, 2010 |
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[Bonus] The Preliminary Practices [Short Episode]
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May 11, 2010 |
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[Bonus] Clearing up misconceptions about the “Non-Self.”
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May 11, 2010 |
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Loving Kindness: Ready to Launch
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May 11, 2010 |
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Mindfulness of Breathing: Focus on the Abdomen
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May 11, 2010 |
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Loving Kindness: Turning Possibility into Actuality / Shaping our own Future
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May 10, 2010 |
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Full Body Awareness: The Importance of Relaxation (and a reflection on anxiety its status quo in modern society)
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May 10, 2010 |
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[Bonus] Discussion on Kickstarting the Mind Sciences Revolution through Paranormal Abilities
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May 09, 2010 |
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Equanimity: Bringing in the Sharp Wisdom
(And a great juicy question on the 4I)
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May 08, 2010 |
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[Video] Podcast Fix: Missing Episodes!
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May 08, 2010 |
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Awareness of Awareness: Resting in the Sheer Luminosity and Cognizance of Experience
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May 08, 2010 |
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Equanimity: Focus on Impermanence
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May 07, 2010 |
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Awareness of Awareness: Approximating the Shamatha-Achieved Mind
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May 07, 2010 |
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Empathetic Joy: Taking delight in being of benefit and in contemplative cultivation
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May 06, 2010 |
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Awareness of Awareness: On the edge of Vipassana
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May 06, 2010 |
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Empathetic Joy: How to repay the kindness of others by freeing ourselves of our own mental afflictions.
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May 05, 2010 |
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Back to Awareness of Awareness
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May 05, 2010 |
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Compassion: Lucidity in the Waking State
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May 04, 2010 |
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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Observing the Nature of the Space of the Mind
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May 04, 2010 |
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Compassion: Going into Deep Waters
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May 03, 2010 |
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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Seeing and Hearing without using the Brain
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May 03, 2010 |
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[Video] A Message From Alan: Join the Mailing List!
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May 02, 2010 |
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[Bonus] Alan’s Ideal (and possible) Vision of Buddhism and Contemplative Science in the next 10-15 years
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May 02, 2010 |
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Compassion: Focusing on the Underlying Causes
(and one more superb example for the Mind/Brain talk from yesterday!)
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May 01, 2010 |
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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Self-Knowing and Observing the Mind Heal Itself
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May 01, 2010 |
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[Bonus] Explaining Mind and Brain: The mind exists, and it is something different than the brain.
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Apr 30, 2010 |
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Compassion: Arousing the Heart
(And a strong reflection on modern Dharma practice)
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Apr 30, 2010 |
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Settling the Mind in its Natural State
(setting the stage for a great discussion of modern scientific materialism and the mind)
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Apr 30, 2010 |
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Loving Kindness: Breaking Our Self-Centeredness
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Apr 29, 2010 |
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Breath Awareness: “Classic” Practice
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Apr 29, 2010 |
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Loving Kindness: Developing Motivation for the Practice
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Apr 28, 2010 |
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Breath Awareness: The Rise and Fall of the Abdomen
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Apr 28, 2010 |
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Loving Kindness: A Remedy for Infatuation with Samsara
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Apr 27, 2010 |
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Back to the Infirmary: Full Body Awareness
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Apr 27, 2010 |
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Equanimity: Closing the Circle
(with a spice of Tonglen)
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Apr 26, 2010 |
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Awareness of Awareness: A Final Method in the Cycle
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Apr 26, 2010 |
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[Bonus] A Followup to Thursday’s Nirvana/Rigpa Answer. A Jewel of a Lecture.
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Apr 25, 2010 |
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Equanimity: Breaking the “I-It” Relationship with Ourselves
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Apr 24, 2010 |
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Awareness of Awareness: Third Method in the Cycle
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Apr 24, 2010 |
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Meditation and Reflections on Equanimity (and a very interesting “deep water” question)
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Apr 23, 2010 |
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Awareness of Awareness: A Second Method
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Apr 23, 2010 |
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[Bonus] Awareness of Awareness Question Followed by a Very Enlightening Explanation
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Apr 22, 2010 |
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Empathetic Joy and Reflections on Guilt and Remorse
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Apr 22, 2010 |
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Shamatha Without a Sign -
As taught by Padmasambhava
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Apr 22, 2010 |
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The problems of guilt, low self esteem, and self-loathing, and the remedy of Empathetic Joy.
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Apr 21, 2010 |
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Settling the Mind In Its Natural State: Observing the Background
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Apr 21, 2010 |
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The Wisdom Aspect of Compassion
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Apr 20, 2010 |