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EPISODE · Apr 26, 2011 · 37 MIN

27 Settling the Mind in its Natural State

from Spring 2011 Shamatha Retreat · host B Alan Wallace

In this 24-minute guided meditation, Alan Wallace teaches us to view our own minds, including the whole space of the mind and all of the events that arise within that, from the perspective of the substrate consciousness, as opposed to observing the conceptual mind from the perspective of the conceptual mind.

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