94 On The Journey to Sukhavati
As a bonus, at the end of our retreat Alan presented to us the teachings on Sukhavati from Karma...
93 Becoming A Child Of The Buddhas
What better way to end a retreat than with Shantideva’s beautiful verses about embracing...
92 Achieving Buddhahood By Doing Nothing…ha ha
In the silent meditation we are once again asked to balance earth and sky and to proceed at our...
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91 Four Rivers Flowing Into One Resolve
On the penultimate stage to the cultivation of bodhicitta we return to the great resolve: I shall...
90 An Approximation of Pure Land in Sight?
At the beginning Alan shares extremely uplifting news as what concerns “Project Contemplative...
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89 Great Equanimity, and the Importance of Views
Alan starts by talking about his last dharma talk and once more making clear that his anger was...
01:11:40
88 Turning Up the Heat on Learned Ignorance
The session begins with a guided meditation on variations of taking the mind as the path,...
01:35:52
“Why couldn’t all beings never be parted from sublime happiness free from suffering?” This...
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Before the meditation, Alan elaborates on the importance of preliminary practices and the...
01:31:43
85 Bringing wisdom to the cultivation of great loving-kindness
Alan highlights the practice of balancing earth and sky. The core of the practice is to develop a...
84 How To Acquire The Stars Of Merit For Your Practice
In today’s session Alan talks about the importance of purification and accruing merit in order to...
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83 Great Compassion - Unveiling All Layers Of Suffering
Whereas the Four Immeasurables are the best friends of Vipashyana in weakening the mental...
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82 Scientific Materialism on its Deathbed, or the Scent of a Revolution
Alan reminds us that the text by Padmasambhava strikes one as religious and mystical if viewed...
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81 Equanimity, or This Little Light of Mine
Once again we come back to the culmination of the 4 immeasurables: the cultivation of equanimity....
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80 Nothing on Which to Meditate
In his brief instructions before the silent meditation, Alan reminds us of the importance, before...
01:04:19
Alan begins by emphasizing once again the importance in Dzogchen of the relationship between the...
01:25:07
78 External and Internal Space
Alan reminds us that the advanced practices of “not meditating on anything” (page 176, Natural...
01:02:14
77 Compassion from the View of Pristine Awareness
Alan prefaces the meditation with his reflections on compassion being a hard sell to avowed...
76 The Transitional Process of Meditation
Alan starts the session commenting on the importance of the sense of community and supporting...
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75 Meditation on compassion and the three types of suffering
This short podcast includes a meditation on compassion focusing on the three types of suffering:...
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