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This eight-week retreat will focus on three of the six transitional processes, namely:
All these teachings will be based on the text The Profound Dharma of The Natural Emergence of the Peaceful and Wrathful from Enlightened Awareness Stage of Completion Instructions on the Six Transitional Processes, an “earth terma” of teachings by Padmasambhava, revealed by Karma Lingpa in the fourteen century.
The English translation of this text has been published under the title Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava’s Teachings on the Six Bardos, with commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche and translated by B. Alan Wallace.
Episode | Date |
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94 On The Journey to Sukhavati
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Oct 15, 2014 |
93 Becoming A Child Of The Buddhas
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Oct 15, 2014 |
92 Achieving Buddhahood By Doing Nothing…ha ha
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Oct 14, 2014 |
91 Four Rivers Flowing Into One Resolve
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Oct 14, 2014 |
90 An Approximation of Pure Land in Sight?
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Oct 13, 2014 |
89 Great Equanimity, and the Importance of Views
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Oct 13, 2014 |
88 Turning Up the Heat on Learned Ignorance
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Oct 11, 2014 |
87 Great Mudita
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Oct 11, 2014 |
86 Ripened and Liberated
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Oct 10, 2014 |
85 Bringing wisdom to the cultivation of great loving-kindness
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Oct 10, 2014 |
84 How To Acquire The Stars Of Merit For Your Practice
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Oct 09, 2014 |
83 Great Compassion - Unveiling All Layers Of Suffering
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Oct 09, 2014 |
82 Scientific Materialism on its Deathbed, or the Scent of a Revolution
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Oct 08, 2014 |
81 Equanimity, or This Little Light of Mine
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Oct 08, 2014 |
80 Nothing on Which to Meditate
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Oct 07, 2014 |
79 Aspects of the Guru
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Oct 07, 2014 |
78 External and Internal Space
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Oct 06, 2014 |
77 Compassion from the View of Pristine Awareness
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Oct 06, 2014 |
76 The Transitional Process of Meditation
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Oct 04, 2014 |
75 Meditation on compassion and the three types of suffering
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Oct 04, 2014 |
74 Supercharging Your Practice
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Oct 03, 2014 |
73 Expanding the Field of Loving-Kindness - But Am I Doing It Correctly???
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Oct 03, 2014 |
72 Apprehending the Clear Light of Deep Sleep
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Oct 02, 2014 |
71 Returning to the Vision Quest
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Oct 02, 2014 |
70 Venturing Into Dreamless Sleep
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Oct 01, 2014 |
69 It’s Never Too Soon to Develop Bodhicitta
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Oct 01, 2014 |
68 Dispelling Obstacles to Lucid Dreaming
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Sep 30, 2014 |
67 Resolve — If You Mean It
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Sep 30, 2014 |
66 Welcome to the world of emanation and transformation
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Sep 29, 2014 |
65 Great equanimity and its perspective from hinayana, mahayana and dzogchen
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Sep 29, 2014 |
64 How to Fall Asleep Lucidly for the Less and Less and Less Gifted (e.g. me)
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Sep 27, 2014 |
63 Moving On To Great Empathetic Joy And Its Best Buddy, Great Contemplative Observatory
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Sep 27, 2014 |
62 Balancing Your Practice and Night-Time Dream Yoga
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Sep 26, 2014 |
61 Great Loving-Kindness, and The One Way to Cheat Death
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Sep 26, 2014 |
60 Weaving Everything Together
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Sep 25, 2014 |
59 Great Compassion
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Sep 25, 2014 |
58 The Pure Illusory Body
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Sep 24, 2014 |
57 Wide Open Awareness of Equanimity
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Sep 24, 2014 |
56 Settling the mind in its natural state and the impure illusory body
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Sep 23, 2014 |
55 Immeasurable equanimity, the foundation
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Sep 23, 2014 |
54 Mirror, mirror on the wall - Who is fairest of them all?
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Sep 22, 2014 |
53 Prospective Memory For Dream Yoga And Empathetic Joy
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Sep 22, 2014 |
52 Welcome to Padmasambhava’s Ontological Shock Therapy
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Sep 20, 2014 |
51 Empathetic Joy, and Alan Filing a Class Action Suit
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Sep 20, 2014 |
50 Introduction to the Transitional Process of Dreaming
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Sep 19, 2014 |
49 Freedom from Existential Suffering
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Sep 19, 2014 |
48 A Spiral Through the Basics to Settled Awareness
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Sep 18, 2014 |
47 Freedom from the Suffering of Change and Its Causes
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Sep 18, 2014 |
46 Unboundedness of Buddha’s awareness
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Sep 17, 2014 |
45 Power to change the world
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Sep 17, 2014 |
44 Who is Alan - Alan? Dr. Alan? Guru Alan? Lama Alan? Dr. Lama Alan?
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Sep 16, 2014 |
43 Expanding the Field of Loving-kindness
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Sep 16, 2014 |
42 On the Nature of Ultimate and Relative Bodhicitta
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Sep 15, 2014 |
41 Loving-Kindness: Cooling the Blade
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Sep 15, 2014 |
40 A Standard for Judging Claims of Existence
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Sep 13, 2014 |
39 Loving Kindness for Yourself
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Sep 13, 2014 |
38 Is Dzogchen the unique domain of buddhists?
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Sep 12, 2014 |
37 Carried away with enthusiasm
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Sep 12, 2014 |
36 Practice dharma, observe your own mind.
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Sep 11, 2014 |
33 Stop it! and how to translate that into Tibetan
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Sep 10, 2014 |
32 Today Is a Day to Be a Loser
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Sep 09, 2014 |
31 Unstable Equilibrium, or How a Butterfly Can Throw You Off Balance
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Sep 09, 2014 |
30 A New Wrinkle on Mindfulness of Breathing
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Sep 08, 2014 |
29 Review of the Nature of Primordial Awareness
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Sep 08, 2014 |
28 What happens to an arhat after death?
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Sep 06, 2014 |
27 Pointing out instructions - Rigpa
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Sep 06, 2014 |
26 Emptiness of the mind
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Sep 05, 2014 |
25 We don’t need another hero!
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Sep 05, 2014 |
24 Tiptoing Into Identifying Awareness
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Sep 04, 2014 |
23 Continuing the Search For the Mind - See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me
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Sep 04, 2014 |
22 On Behaviorism and the Like II, or Why Alan is Not Beating a Dead Horse
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Sep 03, 2014 |
21 On Behaviorism and the Like, or Viva la revolución!
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Sep 03, 2014 |
20 Searching for the Mind
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Sep 02, 2014 |
19 The Relative Nature of Awareness
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Sep 02, 2014 |
18 From shamatha to vipashana
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Sep 01, 2014 |
17 Merging mind with space
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Sep 01, 2014 |
16 Culmination of Shamatha without a Sign. Releasing mind into space.
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Aug 30, 2014 |
15 Luminosity of awareness
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Aug 30, 2014 |
14 Awareness of Awareness or Warming Up for the Marathon
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Aug 29, 2014 |
13 Continuing Probing into the Agent or the Art of Bending a Rainbow
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Aug 29, 2014 |
12 Awareness of Awareness: The Practice of Not-Doing
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Aug 28, 2014 |
11 Awareness of Awareness
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Aug 28, 2014 |
10 Introduction to Shamatha Without a Sign
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Aug 27, 2014 |
09 Transferring Consciousness to a Buddhafield
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Aug 27, 2014 |
08 Nyam, nyam, nyam
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Aug 26, 2014 |
07 Faith and taboo
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Aug 26, 2014 |
06 Mindfulness of Breathing
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Aug 25, 2014 |
05 Mindfulness of Breathing
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Aug 25, 2014 |
04 The Culmination of Mindfulness of Breathing
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Aug 23, 2014 |
03 Continuing Mindfulness of Breathing
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Aug 23, 2014 |
02 Mindfulness of Breathing
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Aug 22, 2014 |
01 Settling the Body, Speech and Mind in its Natural State
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Aug 22, 2014 |
00 Welcome and Introduction to the retreat
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Aug 21, 2014 |