Spring 2012 Shamatha Retreat

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2012-05-31

  94 Loving-Kindness. Q&A

Aspiring for genuine happiness. Unguided meditation not included. Q&A What do i have to do to achieve stage 4 outside of retreat? What does full enlightenment mean? 		  Alan Wallace author
2012-05-30

  93 Practice in the Spirit of Loving-Kindess, Q&A

We proceed directly into meditation with loving kindness for ourself, then spend the remaining time with Q&A.Q&A (at 24:51) * Subtlety of subjectivity in lucid dreams. * Achieving shamatha while dreaming. * Sleep paralysis and false awakenin... 		  B. Alan Wallace author
2012-05-30

  92 Morning Q&A

We are encouraged to practice the four immeasurables in a spirit of looking back on our retreat and broader past. Then we receive advice around the question, "How do we prepare for death when we have months, days, hours, seconds?" (27:19) 		  B. Alan Wallace author
2012-05-29

  91 Practice in the Spirit of Loving-Kindness. Q&A

Enter your practice in the spirit of loving-kindness, particularly when the mind is prone to rumination. Consider the analogy of the horse saved from a burning barn, scared and frantic—never would you be hard on such a horse, it needs only gentle kindn... 		  Audio author
2012-05-29

  90 Morning Q&A

How to help people ? What aspects of dharma speak of developing these abilities and is there a first aid guide for specific ailments ? 		  Alan Wallace author
2012-05-29

  89 A wellspring of good advice

Our shamatha practice can help keep us cognitively tuned while back in the big world, even if we can only practice briefly during the day. In times when we are fatigued from stress, full-body awareness in the shavasana pose is the most healing; on brim... 		  Audio author
2012-05-28

  88 The Four Immeasurables

Alan explains why the four immeasurables build a perfect system by each backing up one of the others.Silent meditation 		  Audio author
2012-05-26

  87 Awareness of Awareness (4)

We expand upon the two methods given by Panchen Lama Rinpoche of managing incoming thoughts: in the first, after flicking an arrow of thought, what remains in its place is awareness—a knowing devoid of thought. It's as if you get your own built-in dzog... 		  B. Alan Wallace author
2012-05-26

  86 Equanimity

Alan gives the remaining two of Buddhaghosa's fourfold analyses of the four immeasurables, those of empathetic joy and of equanimity. The analyses consist of the false facsimile, the diametric opposite, the immediate catalyst, and the sign of success o... 		  B. Alan Wallace author
2012-05-26

  85 Awareness of Awareness (3)

When performed in the method described by Panchen Lama Rinpoche of letting thoughts emerge and dissolve on their own like a raven on a ship, awareness of awareness qualifies as a practice of shamatha, vipassana, and dzogchen. The latter two require a s... 		  Audio author