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