The Illumination of Primordial Wisdom
D3S1 - The Demons Are Your Own Appearances
Lama Alan · 122 minutes · recorded January 1, 2021
Whether shamatha must wait for full retreat is answered with an email from an elderly practitioner in a city flat, whose practice has continuity and bliss: right now we are in the optimal circumstances. Lama Alan Wallace turns to vipashyana, where Dudjom Rinpoche treats the whole external world through the demons we blame for obstructing us, and shows them to be appearing aspects of our own mind, empty yet vividly appearing, like a dream. He then guides a practice, opening all six doors of perception.
The nature of mind Shamatha (calm abiding) Vipashyana (insight)