Dwelling in the Heart of Reality
D3S1 - Shamatha Without a Sign
Lama Alan · Eva Natanya · 123 minutes · recorded January 1, 2020
Lama Alan Wallace turns awareness in upon awareness itself, the method the Buddha called the most profound of the shamatha practices, and traces where it leads: the mind dissolving into the substrate consciousness, which is often mistaken for nirvana. He guides a practice of inverting awareness on the in breath and releasing it into open space on the out breath, then asks who the meditator is. Eva Natanya asks about the different levels of mystery, and which of them can be known.
Attachment and craving Consciousness and science Death and dying The nature of mind Open presence Shamatha (calm abiding)