Fall 2014 Shamatha, Vipashyana, Dream Yoga

By B. Alan Wallace

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This eight-week retreat will focus on three of the six transitional processes, namely:

  • the Transitional Process of Living, with teachings on śamatha and vipaśyanā,
  • the Transitional Process of Dreaming, with teachings on dream yoga, and
  • the Transitional Process of Meditation with teachings on Dzogchen meditation.

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