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Dharma Teachings by Lama Mark Webber
by Lama Mark Webber
A collection of audio Dharma teachings by Lama Mark Webber. Please see http://www.markwebber.org/ for details.
Episodes
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S012E14 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 14
The class reads the Vimuttimagga's chapter on mindfulness of death alongside Gampopa. That text names four kinds of mindfulness of death - joined to anxiety, to fear, to indifference or to wisdom - and only the last removes tribulation. It then works through Gampopa's three reasons death is...
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S012E13 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 13
The class enters the fourth chapter, on impermanence, with the world's death rate - about two a second - and with the dictionary, where Anicca comes out as unstable, irregular and uncertain rather than simply impermanent. It follows the chapter's order of contemplation: the outer world first…
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S012E12 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 12
The class reads the section on the spiritual master's instruction: the four obstacles that keep a being from Buddhahood and the four instructions that remedy them - impermanence, the faults of Samsara and Karma, loving kindness and compassion, and Bodhicitta. It dwells on attachment to peace as…
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S012E11 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 11
The class reads the Vimuttimagga's chapter on the good friend alongside Gampopa's third chapter, noting that Kalyanamitra means a preeminent friend rather than a buddy, and that a teacher has to be searched out rather than waited for. It then works through the four classes of spiritual master…
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S012E10 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 10
The class spends its first third on meditation practice - acceptance that is really dullness, and brightening the mind by raising the eyes and building sensation at the tip of the nose until it fizzes like champagne. It then begins the third chapter, on the spiritual master, comparing three...
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S012E09 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 9
The class finishes the chapter on the precious human life with its three kinds of faith. Trusting faith is confidence in cause and result, the opposite of fatalism; longing faith recognizes enlightenment as worth pursuing; lucid faith is clear confidence in the Three Jewels. For the last, the…
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S012E08 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 8
The class opens with the dictionary root of sila, virtue, as a natural rather than acquired way of living, then reads the chapter's turn from how hard a human life is to obtain to how easily it is lost. The line "it is inappropriate to enjoy myself" is taken not as a ban on pleasure but as a...
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S012E07 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 7
The class continues the chapter on the precious human life, reading that a human life is defined by capacity - the ability to attain either the higher realms or definite goodness - and Atisha's three types of person: the inferior who seeks the pleasures of Samsara, the mediocre who seeks only…
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S012E06 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 6
The class turns to the second chapter, on the precious human life, and reads the eight unfavorable conditions not as other realms but as states a human passes through in a single day. It also takes a hard question about compassion offered where it cannot be received, and answers that the weight…
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S012E05 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 5
The class covers the Mahayana family and warns that the labels are easily misapplied - a Vajrayana practitioner can drift, unnoticed, into practicing only for their own liberation. In place of berating oneself for falling short of it, it offers a kinder exercise: write down the qualities already...
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S012E04 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 4
The class reads Mipham on the four veils that obscure Buddha Nature and the four things that clear them: interest in the Mahayana, wisdom, meditative concentration and love. It then separates two things easily confused - perfectionism, which is neurotic and insists that things be perfect, and...
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S012E03 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 3
The class takes the first chapter, which begins at the top with Buddha Nature rather than working up to it. Most of the hour goes into Tathagatagarbha itself - gata meaning gone but also arrived, a gate that opens both ways, and garbha meaning womb or inner chamber, filled with potential - set...
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S012E02 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 2
The class reads the text's introduction across three translations at once and spends most of its time on two words. Samsara traces back to crushing, breaking and dissipating rather than to any cycle; Nirvana to a flame blown out - not a life extinguished, but the fuel of confusion exhausted. This...
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S012E01 The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation — Class 1
The opening class of the retreat sets the level of mindfulness the text will demand, starting not with the mind but with the fingertips on bark and lichen, on the grounds that the discrimination trained on the taste of a tea or the grain of a piece of wood is the same one later needed to taste…
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S011E01 Refuge Precepts
The class is the teaching given before a refuge and Bodhisattva ceremony, and turns on the difference between one's own liberation and Buddhahood, described as the same realization extended to all beings. Shabkar's heart advice to his students supplies the correction: emptiness without compassion...
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S010E06 Cutting Through The Root — Class 6
The class sets two bowls of water on the floor to make its point - that attention goes to the bowl and never to the water, to the objects of the mind and never to awareness itself. It then works the mirror at length: what its properties actually are, whether anything ever sticks in it, and what…
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S010E05 Cutting Through The Root — Class 5
A short session given over entirely to the mirror box, with participants taking turns: the hidden left hand starts to move, then to feel, and in several cases to itch and be relieved, though nothing is touching it. The question left standing is where pain and itching actually happen. In this…
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S010E04 Cutting Through The Root — Class 4
The class takes up the moon in the water and the monkeys who climb out on a branch to grab it, then turns the same question on the nose, the hand and the self, each of them grasped as a concept rather than a thing. A blind-spot card and a can of shaving cream carry the point, and it closes on...
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S010E03 Cutting Through The Root — Class 3
The class works from a line illusion that stays convincing even once it is known to be false: understanding alone changes nothing, and the physiology has to be retrained like a new language or an instrument. It settles on a definition worth writing down - an illusion is not something that does…
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S010E02 Cutting Through The Root — Class 2
The class runs a series of exercises - a playing card brought slowly into view, an espresso cup that turns out to hold water, a hand raised with the eyes shut - to show how little of any experience is perceived rather than filled in from memory. The point is not that concepts are the enemy, but...
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S010E01 Cutting Through The Root — Class 1
The class opens a weekend on cutting through the root by arguing that the objects were never the problem - changing the diet, the posture, the possessions or even the religion only swaps one attachment for another. Its image is the cinema: putting a hand into the projector beam does not stop the...
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S009E23 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 23
The class returns to mirrors, opening with Marpa prostrating to a vision of Hevajra rather than to Naropa, who tells him he has mistaken the guru. It then turns to Ramachandran's mirror box, which relieves phantom limb pain with nothing but a reflection - an illusory cause with a real effect. In...
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S009E22 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 22
The class opens with the consecration of a thangka, which is bathed not directly but by immersing its reflection in a mirror, image and reflection being held to have the same standing. The rest is set as homework: what a mirror's properties are, whether anything ever sticks to it, and where an...
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S009E21 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 21
The class works through the Buddha's Discourse on Foam, in which a lump of foam inspected closely is found to be void and hollow. The same treatment is applied to pleasure and pain, and to Nirvana, described as the absence of clinging rather than the absence of pain. In this series of teaching,...
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S009E20 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 20
The class takes the Vajra, a lightning bolt, as a symbol for an insight that arrives as a break rather than gradually. Most of it is given over to Libet's experiments, in which the decision to move a hand precedes any awareness of having decided by about half a second. In this series of teaching,...
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S009E19 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 19
The class takes up rainbows, noting that no two people ever see the same one: each rainbow is the intersection of raindrops with a cone beginning at its own viewer's eye. It examines the pull of rare and fleeting phenomena, and closes on the Dzogchen rainbow body with a caution against chasing...
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S009E18 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 18
The class takes up the whirling firebrand, a torch spun fast enough that its separate positions merge into a single ring of light. It works through motion blur, afterimages, and the delay between a sensation and its conscious recognition, ending with instructions for breaking a single step into...
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S009E17 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 17
The class takes up the gandharvas' cloud-city, a mirage-city of celestial musicians that fades at sunrise, and puts the series' strongest claim: that the solid world is no firmer. Like Sherlock Holmes or Narnia it is a collective projection, held in place because so many minds share it, and the...
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S009E16 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 16
The class hears speech itself as echo-like and authorless, a willful "someone" cast behind a voice the way a shout is thrown at a cliff. Drawing on the old chatbot ELIZA and the habit of reading intention into machines, it asks why an insult should be any different, and finds that seeing the...
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S009E15 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 15
The class takes up the echo as a study in how unreliable the sense of sound is: one sound, made once, is heard twice and taken for a second speaker. Working through where a sound is even located, it finds that perception comes out illusory on any account - and that we tend to settle not for the...
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S009E14 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 14
The class takes up Naropa's reason for calling the dream the foremost of the illusion examples: it exposes at once the insubstantiality of the world and of the self that keeps fearing for it, most emotion being at bottom only "don't hurt me." The practice given is to repeat the non-dual moment in...
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S009E13 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 13
The class works through the tests supposed to separate waking from dreaming - vividness, continuity, predictability, being woken by someone else - and finds that none of them holds, because both share one nature: a self taking its own projections as real. It then turns to self-image as the most...
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S009E12 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 12
The first of the classes on the dream turns to dream yoga from The Six Dharma of Naropa - recognizing a dream from inside it, then transforming its contents and walking straight into its fires, which cannot burn. The wider aim is to notice that waking life is shot through with the same making. In...
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S009E11 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 11
The class takes up the mirage, the water a thirst-maddened traveler chases though there is nothing there to drink, and carries it from the desert to the buzzing phone and the hungry ghost. It ends on the mind-only view: no instrument has ever confirmed an object standing outside the mind that...
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S009E10 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 10
The class takes up visual distortion, working from flashing dots that fuse into a single moving object and from faces and rooms filled in out of memory. What it arrives at is that substance is laid over experience in the very act of conceptualizing it, so the mountain neither solidly exists nor...
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S009E09 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 9
The moon's reflection depends on water, an observer, and the air in between - interdependent, with no substance of its own. The class sets beside it Chandrakirti's image of a sufferer who sees hairs falling on a vase that a clear-eyed person cannot, and the everyday floater, to show how ignorance...
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S009E08 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 8
We see a hare or a face in the moon's random markings though nothing is there - and in just that way we project a self onto a changing collection of experience. The class gathers cases where belief bends what's seen, even for careful observers like Galileo, and lands on the line: rather than...
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S009E07 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 7
Clouds forming and dissolving in an empty sky as a fast route to impermanence, and the first turn toward the moon reflected in water. The old story of the monkeys who chain together to grab that reflection - until the branch breaks - carries the point: just as a child reaches for the water-moon…
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S009E06 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 6
The magician's trick as a model for ordinary seeing. Through stage illusions, the rapid darting of the eye, and the blind spot the brain fills in, the class builds to its claim: the seamless, continuous world we seem to perceive is itself a kind of conjuring - "a magic show," a trick the mind…
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S009E05 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 5
The class maps the ground to be covered, investigating illusion across three fields - the self, things, and the relation between them - and notes how thin a slice of reality human perception actually catches. It names the twelve classic similes that lie ahead, beginning with magical illusion, and...
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S009E04 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 4
Buddha nature as the ground of the path: awakening uncovered rather than built, like a plane breaking up through cloud into open sky. From there the class moves into the tantric purification of the subtle body - its channels, winds, and inner heat - while insisting that even blissful absorption…
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S009E03 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 3
A full walk through the Four Noble Truths and the eightfold path, read from the Buddha's first discourse. The weight falls on the third truth - that real cessation is the actual burning-out of craving, not just soothing the afflictions - and on seeing "right" view as something closer to complete,...
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S009E02 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 2
A recovery of loving-kindness - metta - from a worn-out word back to its real force: to soften, to unite, to genuinely mix with all beings rather than wall them off. Tracing the term to its roots, the class insists the kindness reach far past the human, and frames it as the antidote to anger and...
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S009E01 Contemplating The Nature Of Illusion — Class 1
The opening class lays the ground before any analysis of illusion: a foundation of loving-kindness and a clear reason for practicing at all, without which the insight work "goes sour." It previews the twelve classic examples of illusion to come, and sets out the thesis that runs through the whole...
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S008E01 Winnipeg Public Talk
A public talk on a simple problem: everyone wants to be happy, and chasing after objects never delivers it for long. The mind hunts pleasure all day like a heat-seeking missile, yet all we ever really hold is passing experience. So the talk turns from feeding the self with outer objects to...
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S007E01 Namgyal Clear Seeing
An advanced teaching on the Namgyal practice, framed by "seek and you shall find." The sadhana is treated as a laboratory manual to be worked through freshly each time, eyes open and actively looking, never recited by rote. Its heart is clear seeing: resting in open, pristine awareness, since the...
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S006E08 Anapanasati — Class 8
Here the practice crosses over into insight proper. It begins by prising apart the namer from the named — the mind that perceives from the sensation it labels — then watches each formation arise and break up, like catching a film's separate frames instead of the moving picture, until the sense of…
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S006E07 Anapanasati — Class 7
Reading from the Vimuttimagga, the class keeps attention on the bare point where the breath touches the nostril, never forcing it longer or shorter. The "sign" that ripens there is usually mistranslated as an image; it is really a touch, like spun silk or a soft breeze. The instruction is to stay...
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S006E06 Anapanasati — Class 6
Passive watching, on its own, frees no one. The class draws a sharp line between merely observing the mind and actively recollecting it — only the latter, paired with discrimination, reshapes conditioned habit. It closes with concrete instruction for following the breath's sensation to open the...
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S006E05 Anapanasati — Class 5
The fourth and final tetrad is about purification: washing the mind the way dye is drawn out of white cloth, until what remains is bright awareness. Working through impermanence, fading away, cessation, and letting go, it treats the five poisons — greed, hatred, delusion, pride, and jealousy — as...
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