Podcasts religion Alan Wallace Live from Phuket!

Alan Wallace Live from Phuket!

104 episodes

Welcome! This is now an archive page for Dr. Alan Wallace’s teachings from the Spring 2010 Shamatha Retreat in the wonderful Phuket International Academy Mind Centre! This podcast feed was 100% created and updated by us (his students here in Phuket) so we can share Alan’s diamond-sharp teachings! This podcast was created live every day during the retreat in 2010. We will still maintain this site because the teachings are timeless. For more information, please contact the great people at info@sbinstitute.com !

Podcasts

Ending Where We Began: Equanimity Permeated With Loving Kindness

Published: June 11, 2010, 4:25 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 56 seconds

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The Last Shamatha Practice

Published: June 11, 2010, 3:02 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 10 seconds

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Equanimity: Looking Ahead

Published: June 10, 2010, 4:36 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 37 seconds

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Of Trust, Devotion, or Lack Thereof (+ Awareness of Awareness Practice)

Published: June 10, 2010, 3:32 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 28 seconds

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Awareness of Awareness: Emerging through the Clouds of the Dense, Deluded, Compulsive Mind into Clear and Luminous Space

Published: June 9, 2010, 3:39 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 51 seconds

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Empathetic Joy: Using our Mind as a Best Friend (+ great Q&A incl. a deep question about love and attachment).

Published: June 8, 2010, 12:52 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 57 seconds

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Awareness of Awareness: A Smooth Transition from the Space of the Mind

Published: June 8, 2010, 4:47 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Compassion: Investigating a Hypothesis about the Very Root of Suffering (and the importance of not taking Dharma out of context)

Published: June 7, 2010, 2:49 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 10 seconds

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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Sustaining a Continuity

Published: June 7, 2010, 1:22 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 17 seconds

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[Extra Bonus] Culminating in the Great Perfection: The Dzogchen View (Addendum)

Published: June 7, 2010, 12:53 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 1 second

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[Bonus] The Philosophical Evolution of an Individual through all the Four Schools of Indian Buddhism, Culminating in the Great Perfection. In 45 minutes.

Published: June 6, 2010, 2:16 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 29 seconds

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[Short Bonus]: How did ignorance and delusion arise in the first place? Will samsara end?

Published: June 6, 2010, 12:53 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes

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Compassion: Freeing Ourselves from the Underlying Causes of Suffering (Attachment/Craving)

Published: June 5, 2010, 4:17 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 38 seconds

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"The Tempest," Settling the Mind in its Natural State

Published: June 5, 2010, 3:17 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 9 seconds

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Compassion: Focusing on the Blatant Suffering

Published: June 4, 2010, 4:41 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 37 seconds

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Settling the Mind In its Natural State: Exploring Conceptually Unmediated Experience

Published: June 4, 2010, 3:06 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds

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Loving Kindness: Weaving the Present into the Future (+ Bodhicitta Discussion)

Published: June 3, 2010, 3:38 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 50 seconds

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Mindfulness of Breathing: Practicing with the "glass half full" attitude

Published: June 3, 2010, 3:25 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 54 seconds

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Opening the floodgates of our inner virtues ( + Loving Kindness practice)

Published: June 2, 2010, 2:46 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Finding the balance between relaxation and effort (+ Breath Awareness practice)

Published: June 2, 2010, 3:49 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 35 seconds

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Analyzing the reality that we live in, and testing the biggest experiment that a human being can perform. (+ Loving Kindness Practice)

Published: June 1, 2010, 3:04 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 34 seconds

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Revisiting the Infirmary for the Last Time!

Published: June 1, 2010, 3:18 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 26 seconds

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[Bonus] Psychology, attention, and the urgent need for contemplative science.

Published: May 30, 2010, 9:58 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 15 seconds

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[Bonus] Phuket Mind Observatory Plans / Neurofeedback Augmentation

Published: May 30, 2010, 9:28 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 14 seconds

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Entering the Great Path of the Bodhisattvas

Published: May 29, 2010, 12:21 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 33 seconds

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[Vesak] Special Meditation and the Story of The Buddhas Enlightenment

Published: May 28, 2010, 1:56 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 38 seconds

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Vesak Day Guided Meditation

Published: May 28, 2010, 2:59 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 12 seconds

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[Bonus] A Sublime Explanation of Awareness of Awareness [Short]

Published: May 27, 2010, 1:29 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 9 seconds

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Cultivating Self-Worth, Eliminating Pride, The Story of Alans First Meeting with HH. Dalai Lama back in 1971, and flowers.

Published: May 27, 2010, 1 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 1 second

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Retaining the benefits of practice

Published: May 27, 2010, 3:07 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds

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[Short] The Expedition of Shamatha

Published: May 26, 2010, 12:46 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds

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Starting a Two Week Retreat

Published: May 26, 2010, 3:04 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 28 seconds

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Four Immeasurables / Four Best Friends

Published: May 25, 2010, 12:24 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 46 seconds

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"A Sacred Tension" that we might experience

Published: May 25, 2010, 2:51 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds

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Four Immeasurables: Using our anti-affliction arsenal correctly

Published: May 24, 2010, 11:35 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 18 seconds

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Flying Solo [Silent Practice]

Published: May 24, 2010, 2:50 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 2 seconds

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[Bonus] The Whole Shamatha Story in one Session

Published: May 23, 2010, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes

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Loving Kindness: "Coming back to the Beginning for the First Time"

Published: May 22, 2010, 11:20 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Equanimity: Making the task cosmical; Awakening the deepest dimension of our existence.

Published: May 21, 2010, 12:02 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 5 seconds

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Awareness of Awareness: Probing into why we exist (the other side of the equation)

Published: May 21, 2010, 3:05 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 58 seconds

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Equanimity: Striking a balance between fluidity and structure

Published: May 20, 2010, 12:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 32 seconds

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Awareness of Awareness: Warming up for the long run

Published: May 20, 2010, 3:03 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 28 seconds

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Empathetic Joy (Silent Meditation), Q&A

Published: May 19, 2010, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 6 seconds

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Awareness of Awareness: Deconstructing the artificial problem of mind and matter by going down to the root from which both emerge

Published: May 19, 2010, 4:07 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 6 seconds

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Empathetic Joy: Balancing some of the possible side effects of so much Shamatha practice!

Published: May 18, 2010, 11:29 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 50 seconds

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Awareness of Awareness: Understanding the Nature of Consciousness (Going against the Dogma!)

Published: May 18, 2010, 3:16 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 8 seconds

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Combining Compassion and Loving Kindness: An Enriched Tonglen

Published: May 17, 2010, 12:01 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 39 seconds

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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Allowing the mind to heal itself

Published: May 17, 2010, 3:10 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 49 seconds

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[Bonus] *Follow-up* Clearing up a few points and a profoundly encouraging ending

Published: May 16, 2010, 3:29 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 35 seconds

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[Bonus] The nature of information, mind and matter, human existence as a flow of experience/information, quantum cosmology, etc.

Published: May 16, 2010, 2:23 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 19 seconds

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[Bonus] The Four Immeasurables

Published: May 16, 2010, 11:46 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 32 seconds

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Compassion: Freedom from the three levels of suffering

Published: May 15, 2010, 11:28 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 54 seconds

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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Sharpening the Vividness

Published: May 15, 2010, 3:04 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 48 seconds

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Compassion: Separating the Mental Affliction from the Person

Published: May 14, 2010, 12:58 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 47 seconds

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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Coming into our HQ and releasing control

Published: May 14, 2010, 2:51 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 3 seconds

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Compassion: Blowing the Dust of our Eyes

Published: May 13, 2010, 12:25 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 16 seconds

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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Coming in From the Senses

Published: May 13, 2010, 2:53 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 45 seconds

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Loving Kindness: Breaking down the Barriers

Published: May 12, 2010, 11:42 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 47 seconds

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Breath Awareness: Getting in the flow

Published: May 12, 2010, 3:06 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 20 seconds

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[Bonus] The Preliminary Practices [Short Episode]

Published: May 11, 2010, 12:17 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 21 seconds

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[Bonus] Clearing up misconceptions about the Non-Self.

Published: May 11, 2010, 12:08 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 54 seconds

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Loving Kindness: Ready to Launch

Published: May 11, 2010, 11:23 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 9 seconds

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Mindfulness of Breathing: Focus on the Abdomen

Published: May 11, 2010, 2:50 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 44 seconds

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Loving Kindness: Turning Possibility into Actuality / Shaping our own Future

Published: May 10, 2010, 11:24 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 33 seconds

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Full Body Awareness: The Importance of Relaxation (and a reflection on anxiety its status quo in modern society)

Published: May 10, 2010, 3 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 44 seconds

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[Bonus] Discussion on Kickstarting the Mind Sciences Revolution through Paranormal Abilities

Published: May 9, 2010, 1:54 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 47 seconds

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Equanimity: Bringing in the Sharp Wisdom (And a great juicy question on the 4I)

Published: May 8, 2010, 11:22 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 52 seconds

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[Video] Podcast Fix: Missing Episodes!

Published: May 8, 2010, 3:29 a.m.
Duration: 57 seconds

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Awareness of Awareness: Resting in the Sheer Luminosity and Cognizance of Experience

Published: May 8, 2010, 2:52 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 11 seconds

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Equanimity: Focus on Impermanence

Published: May 7, 2010, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 47 seconds

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Awareness of Awareness: Approximating the Shamatha-Achieved Mind

Published: May 7, 2010, 3:10 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 46 seconds

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Empathetic Joy: Taking delight in being of benefit and in contemplative cultivation

Published: May 6, 2010, 11:21 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 40 seconds

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Awareness of Awareness: On the edge of Vipassana

Published: May 6, 2010, 3:16 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 13 seconds

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Empathetic Joy: How to repay the kindness of others by freeing ourselves of our own mental afflictions.

Published: May 5, 2010, 12:56 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 15 seconds

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Back to Awareness of Awareness

Published: May 5, 2010, 3:05 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 42 seconds

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Compassion: Lucidity in the Waking State

Published: May 4, 2010, 12:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 54 seconds

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Compassion: Going into Deep Waters

Published: May 3, 2010, 11:28 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 34 seconds

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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Seeing and Hearing without using the Brain

Published: May 3, 2010, 2:44 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 13 seconds

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[Video] A Message From Alan: Join the Mailing List!

Published: May 2, 2010, 12:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 51 seconds

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[Bonus] Alans Ideal (and possible) Vision of Buddhism and Contemplative Science in the next 10-15 years

Published: May 2, 2010, 11:46 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 39 seconds

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Compassion: Focusing on the Underlying Causes (and one more superb example for the Mind/Brain talk from yesterday!)

Published: May 1, 2010, 12:24 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 46 seconds

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Settling the Mind in its Natural State: Self-Knowing and Observing the Mind Heal Itself

Published: May 1, 2010, 2:52 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 8 seconds

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[Bonus] Explaining Mind and Brain: The mind exists, and it is something different than the brain.

Published: April 30, 2010, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 56 seconds

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Compassion: Arousing the Heart (And a strong reflection on modern Dharma practice)

Published: April 30, 2010, 12:57 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 50 seconds

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Settling the Mind in its Natural State (setting the stage for a great discussion of modern scientific materialism and the mind)

Published: April 30, 2010, 3:10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 8 seconds

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Loving Kindness: Breaking Our Self-Centeredness

Published: April 29, 2010, 11:29 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 55 seconds

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Breath Awareness: Classic Practice

Published: April 29, 2010, 2:51 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 55 seconds

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Loving Kindness: Developing Motivation for the Practice

Published: April 28, 2010, 11:21 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 27 seconds

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Breath Awareness: The Rise and Fall of the Abdomen

Published: April 28, 2010, 3:14 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 35 seconds

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Loving Kindness: A Remedy for Infatuation with Samsara

Published: April 27, 2010, 11:18 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes

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Back to the Infirmary: Full Body Awareness

Published: April 27, 2010, 2:47 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 22 seconds

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Equanimity: Closing the Circle (with a spice of Tonglen)

Published: April 26, 2010, 11:16 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 30 seconds

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Awareness of Awareness: A Final Method in the Cycle

Published: April 26, 2010, 2:42 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 55 seconds

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[Bonus] A Followup to Thursdays Nirvana/Rigpa Answer. A Jewel of a Lecture.

Published: April 25, 2010, 4:11 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 59 seconds

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Equanimity: Breaking the I-It Relationship with Ourselves

Published: April 24, 2010, 12:52 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 42 seconds

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Awareness of Awareness: Third Method in the Cycle

Published: April 24, 2010, 2:41 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 8 seconds

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Meditation and Reflections on Equanimity (and a very interesting deep water question)

Published: April 23, 2010, 1:43 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 55 seconds

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Awareness of Awareness: A Second Method

Published: April 23, 2010, 2:56 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 58 seconds

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[Bonus] Awareness of Awareness Question Followed by a Very Enlightening Explanation

Published: April 22, 2010, 12:24 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 11 seconds

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Empathetic Joy and Reflections on Guilt and Remorse

Published: April 22, 2010, noon
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 14 seconds

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Shamatha Without a Sign - As taught by Padmasambhava

Published: April 22, 2010, 4:56 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 51 seconds

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The problems of guilt, low self esteem, and self-loathing, and the remedy of Empathetic Joy.

Published: April 21, 2010, 1:04 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 6 seconds

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Settling the Mind In Its Natural State: Observing the Background

Published: April 21, 2010, 3:01 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 30 seconds

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The Wisdom Aspect of Compassion

Published: April 20, 2010, 12:48 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 29 seconds

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