Shamatha: Meditation for Balanced Living
S3 - Taking the Mind as the Path
David Oromith · 86 minutes · recorded October 29, 2024
The releasing approach to shamatha, practised with the eyes open. David guides what Lama Alan Wallace calls the Dzogchen approach to mindfulness of breathing, resting in awareness itself with the rhythm of the breath only at the periphery. He gives the four benefits the Buddha named for this concentration, and the story of the monkeys raiding a retreat room in Nepal. The Vajra Essence's advice for those who cannot calm their thoughts leads into observing them without identifying or grasping.
Illness and pain Dzogchen Mindfulness of breathing Open presence Shamatha (calm abiding)