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Lama Alan Teachings Guided Meditation - Settling Body, Speech and Mind in Their Natural States Guided Meditation - Vipashyana, Searching the Mind for Shape, Size and Location Guided Meditation - Equanimity, Even Care for the Neutral, the Dear and the Difficult Guided Meditation - Generating Bodhicitta, Widening the Field from Yourself Outwards Establishing a Daily Practice, the Three Food Groups Guided Meditation - The Three Marks of Existence, from Recollection to Direct Inquiry Lojong, the Eight Verses of Mind Training Guided Meditation - Mindfulness of Feeling Tone Across the Five Senses Guided Meditation - A Body Scan of Feeling Tone, Pleasant, Unpleasant and Neutral Guided Meditation - The Nature of Mental Events, How Thoughts Arise and Dissolve Guided Meditation - Open Awareness of the Six Senses, Noting Patterns of Causality Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness for Oneself, Envisioning Freedom and Fulfilment Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness for Oneself, Envisioning Flourishing, Receiving and Offering Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness for Oneself at Your Worst and at Your Best Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness for Oneself, Envisioning Genuine Happiness Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness for a Loved One, Asking What They Long For Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness, the Four Aspirations from I to We Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness for a Neutral Person and Someone You Find Difficult Guided Meditation - Unconditional Loving Kindness, Beginning with Yourself at Your Worst Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness, Radiating Light from the Heart Guided Meditation - Compassion, Beginning with Your Own Suffering Guided Meditation - Compassion, Attending to the Core Causes of Suffering Guided Meditation - Tonglen, Breathing In the Causes of Suffering Guided Meditation - Tonglen, Sending and Receiving on Both Breaths Guided Meditation - Tonglen for the Aged, the Ill and the Dying Guided Meditation - Empathetic Joy, Rejoicing in Others' Virtues and Your Own Guided Meditation - Visualisation for Dream Yoga, Orbs of Light at the Throat and Heart Guided Meditation - Open Presence, Approached Through the Buddha's Words to Bahiya Guided Meditation - Awareness of Awareness Released into Open Presence Guided Meditation - Refuge, Bodhicitta and Guru Yoga, Resting in Awareness of Awareness Guided Meditation - Body Scan, Moving a Three-Dimensional Field of Awareness Through the Body Guided Meditation - Settling the Mind in Its Natural State, with the Snorkelling Metaphor Guided Meditation - Vipashyana, Searching for the Mind That Observes DĂa 1 - Cualquier actitud que cultivas se fortalece DĂa 2 - Renuncia, refugio y las adversidades pequeñas DĂa 3 - La vacuidad y el camino medio D7S4 - Open Presence and the Rainbow Body D2S2 - Falling Asleep and Becoming Lucid D2S3 - What Materialism Cannot Explain D2S4 - The Third Balance: Vividness D2S5 - Evening Questions on Mind and Memory D3S2 - Generic Ideas and the Second Instant D3S3 - Three Ways We Are Dreaming D3S4 - Thoughts in Real Time, Emotions Only in Hindsight D3S5 - False Awakenings and Dream Karma D4S2 - Causality Without a Mechanism D4S3 - The Space of the Mind D4S4 - Introspection and the Black Box D4S5 - Why Shamatha Cannot Be Skipped, and Questions on Dying D5S2 - Shamatha Without a Sign D5S3 - Awareness of Awareness D5S4 - Probing the Mind as Agent D5S5 - Prospective Mindfulness, and Questions on Karma and Free Will D6S2 - The Grand Finale of Shamatha D6S3 - Looking for the Mind That Thinks D6S4 - Searching for the Mind D7S2 - Pointing Out Pristine Awareness D7S3 - Nighttime Dream Yoga D1S2 - Attentional Intelligence, and Let the Mystery Be Revealed D2S2 - Examine the Character of Unborn Awareness D3S2 - Near Enemies, and Tonglen Mounted on the Breath D4S2 - The Five Powers and Dying D5S2 - Practise What Is Important D6S2 - The Four Yogas of Mahamudra D1S2 - Inner Solitude, and Three Ways Into Shamatha D2S2 - The Four Kinds of Mindfulness D3S2 - Quantum Physics and the Dreamlike World D4S2 - The Mind as a Black Box D5S2 - What Open Presence Actually Is D6S2 - The Fruition and the Rainbow Body Illumination of Primordial Wisdom, Question and Answer Sessions, Session 2 Illumination of Primordial Wisdom, Question and Answer Sessions, Session 3 DĂa 1, SesiĂłn 2 - Tres vĂas hacia shamatha DĂa 2, SesiĂłn 2 - Los cuatro tipos de atenciĂłn plena DĂa 3, SesiĂłn 2 - La fĂsica cuántica y el mundo onĂrico DĂa 4, SesiĂłn 2 - La mente como caja negra DĂa 5, SesiĂłn 2 - QuĂ© es realmente la presencia abierta DĂa 6, SesiĂłn 2 - El fruto y el cuerpo de arcoĂris IluminaciĂłn, Preguntas y respuestas, SesiĂłn 2 IluminaciĂłn, Preguntas y respuestas, SesiĂłn 3 Giorno 1, Sessione 2 - Tre vie verso shamatha Giorno 2, Sessione 2 - I quattro tipi di presenza mentale Giorno 3, Sessione 2 - La fisica quantistica e il mondo onirico Giorno 4, Sessione 2 - La mente come scatola nera Giorno 5, Sessione 2 - Che cos'è davvero la presenza aperta Giorno 6, Sessione 2 - Il frutto e il corpo di arcobaleno D1S2 - Dispensing with Aversion to Adversity D2S2 - Compassion, Not Despair, and the Small Adversities D3S2 - Atisha on the Middle Way DĂa 1, SesiĂłn 2 - Que el misterio se revele DĂa 2, SesiĂłn 2 - Examina el carácter de la conciencia no nacida DĂa 4, SesiĂłn 2 - Los cinco poderes y el morir DĂa 3, SesiĂłn 2 - Tonglen montado en la respiraciĂłn DĂa 5, SesiĂłn 2 - Practica lo que es importante DĂa 6, SesiĂłn 2 - Los cuatro yogas del mahamudra D1S2 - I Am Who I Am, and the Hesychast Life D1S3 - Mindfulness of Breathing, East and West D2S2 - Christ's Infinite Intention, and the Doorkeepers of the Heart D2S3 - Mental Afflictions, and Whether You Need a Guru D3S2 - The Prayer of the Heart D3S3 - The Jesus Prayer D4S2 - The Circular Movement of the Intellect D4S3 - The Mind That Observes, and Mount Meru Against Science D5S2 - Created or Begotten D5S3 - Simeon's Light, and the Clear Light of Death D6S2 - The Uncreated Light of Tabor D6S3 - The Brain Cannot Generate Consciousness, and Eva Natanya's Path The Life and the World of the Dalai Lama Four Aspects of Mental Balance S1 - Cracking Open the Egg of Unawareness S2 - The Substrate Is Not Rigpa S3 - Non-Meditation and the Near Misses P1 - The View of the Great Perfection P2 - Meditation, Conduct and Dying Well D1S1 - Conative Intelligence, and Two Kinds of Happiness D1S2 - The Fourfold Vision Quest, and What Free Will Means D1S3 - William James on Attention, and the Shamatha Project D1S4 - Mindfulness as Remembering, and Introspection as Quality Control D2S1 - Unawareness and Delusion, the Real and the Imaginary D2S2 - In the Seen, Just the Seen D2S3 - Between the Spark and the Flame D2S4 - Unhappiness From Within, and the Ambrosial Dwelling Space, Time and Consciousness D1S1 - Hedonia, Eudaimonia and Where the Causes Lie D1S2 - Tension, Agitation, Dullness, and Stillness Amid Turbulence D1S3 - Relaxation Before Stability, and What Makes a Desire Afflictive D1S4 - Materialism as a Learned Delusion, and Innate Self-Grasping D2S1 - Substantial Causes, and the Telescope of Introspection D2S2 - Observing Thoughts and Emotions, and the Substrate Consciousness D2S3 - Awareness of Awareness, Dying Lucidly, and Loving Kindness D2S4 - Four Questions on Flourishing, and What Free Will Means Part One - Virtue, Dharma and the Path Part Two - The Bahiya Instruction, and How Much Jhana Is Needed Part Three - Emptiness, Bodhicitta and Buddha Nature Part Four - The Fourth Time, and a Laboratory for Contemplatives D1S1 - Four Revolutions in Outlook D2S1 - View All Phenomena as Dreamlike D3S1 - Self-Centredness and Tonglen D4S1 - Blame Everything on One Culprit D5S1 - Criteria, Pledges and Precepts D6S1 - Atisha's Mahamudra, the View D1S1 - The Homage and the Foundations D2S1 - The Complete Instruction for Shamatha D3S1 - The Demons Are Your Own Appearances D4S1 - Searching for the Apprehending Mind D5S1 - Apprehending the Apprehender D6S1 - Do Nothing a Buddha Wouldn't Do Illumination of Primordial Wisdom, Question and Answer Sessions, Session 1 DĂa 1, SesiĂłn 1 - El homenaje y los fundamentos DĂa 2, SesiĂłn 1 - La instrucciĂłn completa para shamatha DĂa 3, SesiĂłn 1 - Los demonios son tus propias apariencias DĂa 4, SesiĂłn 1 - En busca de la mente que aprehende DĂa 5, SesiĂłn 1 - Aprehender al aprehensor DĂa 6, SesiĂłn 1 - No hagas nada que un buda no harĂa IluminaciĂłn, Preguntas y respuestas, SesiĂłn 1 Giorno 1, Sessione 1 - L'omaggio e i fondamenti Giorno 2, Sessione 1 - L'istruzione completa per shamatha Giorno 3, Sessione 1 - I demoni sono le tue stesse apparenze Giorno 4, Sessione 1 - Alla ricerca della mente che afferra Giorno 5, Sessione 1 - Afferrare colui che afferra Giorno 6, Sessione 1 - Non fare nulla che un buddha non farebbe D1S1 - Whatever Attitude You Cultivate Grows Stronger D2S1 - Renunciation, Refuge, and a Remedy for Each Adversity D3S1 - Emptiness, and Transforming Good Fortune DĂa 1, SesiĂłn 1 - Cuatro revoluciones en la manera de ver DĂa 2, SesiĂłn 1 - Ve todos los fenĂłmenos como un sueño DĂa 4, SesiĂłn 1 - Culpa de todo a un solo culpable DĂa 3, SesiĂłn 1 - El egocentrismo y tonglen DĂa 5, SesiĂłn 1 - Criterios, compromisos y preceptos DĂa 6, SesiĂłn 1 - El mahamudra de Atisha, la visiĂłn D1S1 - Are You Human? The Three Poisons and the Substrate D2S1 - State Checks and Dream Signs D3S1 - Free Will, and the Three Qualities of a Student D4S1 - The Sautrantika View, and the Instruction to Bahiya D5S1 - Watching Thoughts Like a Cowherd D6S1 - Looking for the Observer D7S1 - Padmasambhava's Pointing Out Instructions, and Innate Ignorance Mind & Mandalas - Part One Mind & Mandalas - Part Two Mind & Mandalas - Part Three D1S1 - Buddhism as Contemplative Science D2S1 - The Dzogchen Answer to Suffering D3S1 - Shamatha Without a Sign D4S1 - Searching for the Mind, and Whether Shamatha Is Indispensable D5S1 - Guru Yoga, and When Samsara Begins D6S1 - Convergence, Not Conversion D8S5 - The Retreat's Closing Visualisation and Dedication D8S4 - The Substrate Trap, and the Moon Behind the Clouds D8S3 - Distinguishing Mind from Primordial Awareness D8S2 - The Text's Closing Verses, and Acquiring Confidence D8S1 - Resting in Awareness, and Why the Mind Must Change First D7S4 - The Foundations of Practice, and the Limits of Intellect D7S3 - The Bardo as a Cinema, and Deities as Your Own Mind D7S2 - Hell Realms as Dreams, and the Grip of Self and Other D7S1 - The Three Marks of Existence in Everyday Examples D6S4 - Finding the Basis of Designation for the Self D5S5 - Questions on Observing the Mind and Losing the Self D5S4 - Galileo's Moons, and a Realisation Not Yet Stable D4S5 - Bodhicitta's Stages and Whether Shamatha Comes First D4S4 - Full Shamatha, and Whether Consciousness Survives Death D3S5 - Working with Emotional Triggers, and a Wide-Ranging Q&A D3S4 - Right Listening and the Limits of Watching Thoughts D6S3 - Why Dzogchen Practice Is Simply Waking Up D6S2 - Resting in Awareness, and Why Nothing Exists Inherently D6S1 - How View Transforms a Single Meditation Technique D5S3 - The Space Between an Impulse and Acting On It D5S2 - The Training This Text Assumes D5S1 - Six Domains of Practice, and Why Mind Is Not the Brain D4S3 - Settling the Mind, and the Emotions That Surface D4S2 - The Third Balance, and the Search for Where Mind Exists D4S1 - Motivation, Guru Devotion and Entering the Path D3S3 - Seeing Through the Guru, and Boundless Compassion D3S2 - Guru Devotion Across the Three Vehicles D3S1 - Refuge, Devotion and the Two Causes of Suffering D2S4 - Four Questions on Happiness, and Reality's Blessings D2S3 - The Buddha's Breathing Practice as a Source of Joy D2S2 - Stillness Without Stimulation, and Life After Death D2S5 - Shamatha, Materialism and the Question of Rigpa D2S1 - The Liturgy, and Whether Dzogchen Must Wait D1S1 - Meeting Dudjom Lingpa's Text and Its Lineage D6S3 - Atisha on Perception, and Closing the Retreat D6S2 - Merging Mind with Space, and What Shamatha Requires D6S1 - The Final Stages of Shamatha and Its Signs of Arrival D5S3 - The Oscillation, and Not Rushing Pristine Awareness D5S2 - Stability by Effort, or by Letting Go of Grasping D5S1 - Shamatha Without a Sign, and Stages Six and Seven D4S3 - Vase Breathing, and What You Bring to the Practice D4S2 - The Middle Stages of Settling the Mind D4S1 - Two Paths to Practice, and How Appearances Deceive D3S3 - Combining Relaxation and Clarity in One Session D3S2 - Letting Thoughts Dissolve, or Cutting Them Off D3S1 - Radiant Purity, and What Obscures It D2S3 - Settling the Mind in Its Natural State D2S2 - Sensations of the Breath and the Bodyguard of Shamatha D2S1 - Hovering, Comparison, and the Five Obscurations D1S3 - Three Breathing Methods and the Ground of Becoming D1S2 - The Coal Burning Plant, and Genuine Unhappiness D1S1 - Motivation, Hedonic Pleasure and Settling the Mind What Can Buddhism Offer During an Eco-Crisis (Lama Alan Wallace) In Conversation with B. Alan Wallace - Looking Within and Exploring The Potentials of Consciousness
