Meditation, Stability, Clarity: Experiencing the Liberating Power of Full Attention
D4S1 - Two Paths to Practice, and How Appearances Deceive
Lama Alan · 116 minutes · recorded June 5, 2025
Lama Alan contrasts the monastic route of cutting all ties with staying in the world, married or with children, and explains how to weed attachment out of a relationship while keeping the love that comes with it. He turns to why appearances of colour and self are always misleading, since nothing exists in the solid way it seems to, and answers those who say shamatha is no longer achievable by pointing to the Dalai Lama's own encouragement to practise it.
Attachment and craving Emptiness Relationships and family The nature of mind Shamatha (calm abiding)