Dreaming of Reality: Sleeping, Dreaming & Dying in Tibetan Buddhism
D7S2 - Pointing Out Pristine Awareness
Lama Alan · 59 minutes · recorded January 1, 2019
Lama Alan Wallace gives one more reason for his research centre, a controlled experiment on past-life recall, and Michelle Alexander's New York Times column asking what if we are all coming back. The guided practice carries Yangthang Rinpoche's root text from shamatha through vipashyana into pointing out, the mind found to be neither existent nor non-existent, its emptiness the dharmakaya and its luminosity the sambhogakaya. He closes on the Vajra Essence, the ground frozen by dualistic grasping.
Death and dying Dreams and sleep Emptiness Sleep and rest The nature of mind Shamatha (calm abiding) Vipashyana (insight)