Alan Wallace Live from Phuket!

Ending Where We Began: Equanimity Permeated With Loving Kindness

This afternoon may be the last podcast episode of Alan's lectures for this retreat. He started by...

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The Last Shamatha Practice

I know, I am quite the dramatic with my titles :)With a bittersweet feeling we have come to the...

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Equanimity: Looking Ahead

This afternoon Alan started by sharing a story about his first meditation counsel with Geshe...

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Of Trust, Devotion, or Lack Thereof (+ Awareness of Awareness Practice)

This morning Alan starts by giving instructions on how to watch the opening game of the World Cup...

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Awareness of Awareness: Emerging through the Clouds of the Dense, Deluded, Compulsive Mind into Clear and Luminous Space

As we approach the end of the retreat, the lectures are getting more and more information packed...

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Empathetic Joy: Using our Mind as a Best Friend (+ great Q&A incl. a deep question about love and attachment).

The story Alan narrates at the very start of this episode comes because there was a dog outside...

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Awareness of Awareness: A Smooth Transition from the Space of the Mind

This morning, Alan said he would squeeze out every drop of knowledge he had left about this first...

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Compassion: Investigating a Hypothesis about the Very Root of Suffering (and the importance of not taking Dharma out ...

This afternoon Alan started by pointing out the modern tendency of being very harsh and strict...

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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Sustaining a Continuity

This practice got separated from the previous episode for continuity purposes. As you might...

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[Extra Bonus] Culminating in the Great Perfection: The Dzogchen View (Addendum)

In this morning session, Alan really woke us up (interpret that as you will) by making an...

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[Bonus] The Philosophical Evolution of an Individual through all the Four Schools of Indian Buddhism, Culminating in ...

Yes, this is an ambitious title but as always the podcast episode does not fail to deliver the...

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[Short Bonus]: How did ignorance and delusion arise in the first place? Will samsara end?

For this short bonus episode, I extracted a question that Elizabeth said was maybe unanswerable,...

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Compassion: Freeing Ourselves from the Underlying Causes of Suffering (Attachment/Craving)

In this afternoon practice, we focused not so much on the blatant form of suffering as we did...

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"The Tempest," Settling the Mind in its Natural State

This morning we returned to Settling the Mind in its Natural state, this time observing the...

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Compassion: Focusing on the Blatant Suffering

This afternoon we went into a very practical and powerful practice on Compassion, focusing on the...

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Settling the Mind In its Natural State: Exploring Conceptually Unmediated Experience

If you have been subscribing to the podcast, you are probably very familiar with today's...

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Loving Kindness: Weaving the Present into the Future (+ Bodhicitta Discussion)

The introduction to today's practice was tailored to us here in Phuket in the sense that we are...

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Mindfulness of Breathing: Practicing with the "glass half full" attitude

In today's mindfulness of breathing practice, Alan started by talking about the causes and...

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Opening the floodgates of our inner virtues ( + Loving Kindness practice)

This afternoon we started with a reflection on how many times we see people as just "flat images"...

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Finding the balance between relaxation and effort (+ Breath Awareness practice)

This morning, Alan started by reading two short verses from the Dhammapada, (freshly translated...

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