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#/
We hope you will enjoy and benefit from these beautiful teachings!
We hope you will enjoy and benefit from these beautiful teachings!
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Session 92: (Discussion Only) A Final Teaching, and an Expression of Gratitude to Our Teacher
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Dec 30, 2010 |
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Session 91: (Discussion Only) Bringing Good Motivation into Daily Life
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Dec 30, 2010 |
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Session 90: (Discussion Only) Letting Our Minds Become Dharma
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Dec 30, 2010 |
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Session 89: (Discussion Only) Envisioning the Future You Would Love to Live
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Dec 08, 2010 |
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Session 88: (Discussion Only) Genuine Happiness in Everyday Life
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Dec 08, 2010 |
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Session 87: (Discussion Only) Balancing Discipline and Gentleness and a Q&A Session
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Dec 08, 2010 |
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Session 86: (Discussion Only) Possible Effects of Shamatha on Cognitive Deterioration
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 85: (Discussion only) The Four Immeasurables Keeping Tabs on Each Other
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 84: (Discussion Only) Some Brief Remarks on Selecting Your Shamatha Practice
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 83: Equanimity and a Great Encompassment of our Practices
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 82: Awareness of Awareness, Shamatha That Can Assist at the Moment of Death
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 81: Going Outward with Equanimity
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 80: Awareness of Awareness and Potentially the Last Soap Box Speech on Materialism
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 79: Happy Gratitude and Empathetic Joy
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 78: Deactivating the Coarse Mind with Awareness of Awareness
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 77: Empathetic Joy and Sacred Tension
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 76: A Clarification of Buddhist Mindfulness and Awareness of Awareness Practice
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 75: Compassion Practice and the Urge to Become
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 74: Attending to the Space of the Mind, and a Discussion of Dharmadatu and Dharmata
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 73: The Five Obscurations Applied in Education and a Practice in Compassion
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 72: Settling the Mind and Applying No Antidotes
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 71: Compassion and the Possibility of Ending Suffering in this Life
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Session 70: Settling the Mind and Being a Student of Buddhism
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 69: Loving-Kindness Practice Drawing From the Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana Traditions.
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 68: The Build-up to Mindfulness of Breathing (Apertures of the Nostrils)
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 67: Loving Kindness and Achieving a State of “Not Going” (Nirvana)
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 66: Refining Mindfulness of Breathing with Stability
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 65: Freshening Up Our Loving Kindness Practice
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 64: Back to the Infirmary and the Pure Land of Tushita
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 63: (Discussion Only) Spiritual Friends, Setting a Sleep Schedule, the Suffering of Bodhisattvas, etc.
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 62: (Discussion Only) What it Means to Have a GREAT Meditation
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 61: (Discussion Only) Encouragement for Practice, Expanding Awareness, Controversial Lamas, etc.
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 60: Tonglen Suffused with Equanimity
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 59: Having Appropriate Expectations in our Awareness of Awareness Practice
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 58: Equanimity, Karma, Free Will and Penetrating Past Appearances
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 57: Awareness of Awareness and More on Catatonia-Inducing Materialism
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 56: Taking Delight with Empathetic Joy
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 55: Awareness of Awareness and Cutting Firewood
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 54: Empathetic joy and Achieving Greater Balance by Attending to the Good in the World
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 53: Keeping it Simple in our Awareness of Awareness Practice
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 52: Compassion For Those Who Are Grasping
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 51: Settling the Mind in its Natural State and the Ever-Present Substrate
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 50: Compassion Practice for the Suffering of Change and the Dissatisfying Nature of Hedonic Pleasure
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 49: A Discussion of the Elements and Settling the Mind Without Conceptual Designation
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 48: Two Approaches to the Four Immeasurables and a Practice in Compassion
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 47: Settling the Mind and Avoiding Reification of Appearances and Emotions
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 46: Extending the Field of Loving Kindness
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 45: Mindfulness of Breathing (Apertures of the Nostrils) and Fighting the Good Fight
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 44: Loving Kindness and Attending to Others with the Correct Magnification
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 43: Synergy and Balance - Mindfulness of Breathing with Stability
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 42: Loving Kindness and Going Against the Grain
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 41: Addiction/Withdrawal, A Review of the Practices, and a Trip Back to the Infirmary
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 40: Equanimity, a Balanced Foundation for Practice
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 39: Awareness of Awareness, Stretching our Awareness of the Space of the Mind
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 38: Tending to Special Relationships in the Cultivation of Equanimity
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 37: Awareness of Awareness and Alan’s Wrath toward the Neurocentric View
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 36: Entering the Path, A Wisdom Perspective on Empathetic Joy
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 35: Awareness of Awareness and Responding to Fear of Annihilation
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 34: Empathetic Joy (Mudita) and Attending to Virtue
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 33: Awareness of Awareness, Buddhist Cosmogony, Non-Dharma and Renunciation
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 32: Compassion, the Path that Addresses All Levels of Our Suffering
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 31: Settling the Mind in the Space of the Mind
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 30: Compassion in Response to the Suffering of Change, “Dukkha”
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 29: Settling the Mind and Pushing Past the Ceiling on our Shamatha Practice
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 28: Returning to Compassion, the Best Response to Suffering
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 27: Settling the Mind, A Thought-Provoking Practice
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 26: Loving Kindness and Being of Greatest Benefit to Others
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 25: The Healing Power of Mindfulness of Breathing, Apertures of the Nostrils
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 24: Attending to Others with Loving-Kindness
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 23: Mindfulness of Breathing (Abdominal), Cultivating Stability and the Five Powers
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 22: Deepening Loving Kindness for Ourselves
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 21: Back to the Infirmary
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 20: Equanimity, Breaking Down the Barriers
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 19: Expanding our Awareness (of Awareness)
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 18: Intro to Equanimity
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 17: Awareness of Awareness, An Empowering Practice
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 16: Empathetic Joy, Rejoicing in Happiness and Virtue
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 15: Awareness of Awareness, Taking the Fruit as the Path
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 14: Intro to Empathetic Joy
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 13: Intro to Awareness of Awareness
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 12: Compassion and the Deepest Dimension of Suffering
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 11: Settling the Mind and Scientific Inquiry
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Session 10: Compassion and the Five Obscurations
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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Session 09: Deepening the Practice of Settling the Mind
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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Session 08: Intro to Compassion
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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Session 07: Intro to Settling the Mind in its Natural State
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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Session 06: Dreaming Big in our Loving Kindness Practice
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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Session 05: Mindfulness of Breathing, Apertures of the Nostrils
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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Session 04: Expanding the Circle of Loving Kindness
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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Session 03: Mindfulness of Breathing, Abdomen
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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Session 02: Intro to Loving Kindness
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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Session 01: Mindfulness of Breathing in the Infirmary
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Nov 15, 2010 |