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This answer and dharma talk on the clear light and the power of prayer is epic ! ❤🙏

Great series, sound quality is very poor tho. 😢

I’m super happy to have discovered this retreat - this is my third time to listen to the teachings…! 🙏 I am inspired to take up this practice - may I be blessed to stay on The Path…! 🌈 Gratitude, and much appreciation to Allen and Eva for their inspired teaching(s)…! ❤

I've learned so much during this retreat. I'm so grateful for the availability of these videos.

54:17

Eva gives a great account of prayer starting around 18:00

I love the teaching on the harmlessness of thoughts - are empty apperences for as long as you don't engage with them. And then he gives this brilliant and hilarious analogy with lucid dream: woman who's expert at lucid dream forces a knife into her gut and Alan asks: "wow did it hurt?" And she says "How could it hurt? It's a dream-knife and a dream-gut! It's like a rainbow stabbing rainbow! It's all empty apperences!" Brilliant brilliant imagery 😂❤🌈✨

Meditation starts at 25:50 ❤

Profound gratitude for opening up the teachings of the path 🤲🏼❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦👣🙏🏼

1:23 😂

Maybe I am just extremely deluded and drowning in the great sea of samsara but I don't perceive Alan's pointers towards wisdom to point towards anything that has ever existed. And when he does point towards examples supposed to embody wisdom what I see is something incomplete. I'm sure Dalai Lama does a lot of good but if that is perfect wisdom then we're truly fucked. I'm sorry.

Than you Eva! Your teachings on the actual practice of meditation have been and continue to be IMMENSELY helpful 🙏❤ This talk here is the diamond lightning bolt thats really giving me many insights to whats going on during and after my own practice❤ Gate gate paragate parasumgate bodhi soha!🙏🌈✨️🌞🕉

Thank you Eva ❤

What a gem of a retreat! My practice has really deepened from these sessions❤ My deep deep gratitude to the sangha, Eva, and Lama Alan ❤🙏✨️

Is just me, or does anyone else get "that feeling" as though youre almost there in the room?

Goodness! What a blessing to have this retreat recorded a freely available to anyone interested! Profoundly grateful ❤🙏🕉✨️

Wow this meditation was powerful. I simply followed the instructions and felt as if the whole 'body' (read consciousness) was breathing, then I saw my vision (in my mind, eyes closed) have a dull white light, nothing bright or focused. Then my right ear started to shake and make popping sounds. I thought I was about to have an Out of Body Experience (OBE), then that sort of took me out of the state I was in. How sublime. I must say it's not my first time meditating or experiencing this sensation, but on all occasions I was using binaural beats (from TH-cam and from Monroe Institute), not this time! I have downloaded this video as mp3 and saved the meditation part and fixed the left/right ear issue by saving the audio in mono. All done in Audacity. Thank you Alan :)

That caught

Nice and gentle.❤️

Well, it's definitely the practice of quiet...

The sound is very low. Very hard to hear even with headphones.

Eva, love You! You take us to our Home!

One of the most elaborate yet practical relaxation methods I have ever experienced

Namo Guru!

Interesting teaching on silence :P

Theravada method in this video

What is with Alan's endless rants about materialism? You only need to say it once or twice, not in every single talk! We get it!

About time to deal with artificial intelligence, Alan. You've been dodging this topic for too long, and here we are. It is upon us with unimaginable power, and you need to talk about it. And we can't afford for this whole process of advancing in meditation to take years, just for the _initial_ steps. We need results, so that all of civilization can benefit, much faster, and those are only going to be brought about through major brain-based innovations to the skillful means of the Dharma. Today, if someone went on a ten-year-retreat, they would come back out into an unrecognizable world!

4:32 mentioning her ballet career

It's hard to find even 24 minutes where you don't fall asleep during practice. Where's my enlightenment device? (And many clinics are working on it.)

I'm curious: 4% of the population cannot form mental images en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia. What would Alan Wallace say in that case, since visualizations are so integral to Vajrayana?

I really wish Alan wouldn't attack medication or brain stimulation. My OCD would be too powerful for me to meditate if I had not been treated with both. It's still very strong and constantly seeking to undermine my practice, and I'm placing a lot of my hope in precision brain stimulation and psychedelics to break the endless looping that has hounded me for the past 17 years.

Damn. Alan's usually so stoic. You rarely see the man, but you did here.

I like this man for his grasp of the tradition, and the way he translates it within a Euro-American context, without forsaken its original truth. I like that he is Scottish, and I'm half Scottish (Shout out to Greenock!), yet I forget his name (Willaim Wallace will never forgive me!), then found him again on this channel. Thanks!

So Wonderful!! Thank you!

Alan, stop attacking everything but the Dharma! You just couldn't help yourself with that remark about ayahuasca! You're just saying that because you know ayahuasca _works,_ and you feel threatened. And you keep doing this in video after video with everything but the Dharma, as if they got it all right centuries ago. Psychedelics have helped me a great deal with my anxiety, complex PTSD, OCD, ADHD, various buried traumas from childhood, kundalini syndrome, benzodiazepine dependency and physical pain caused by anxiety that no amount of meditation could accomplish. Meditation was like water off a duck's back for all of this. I disagree with Alan's dismissal of these substances. Using psychedelics judiciously can accomplish things that meditation could never accomplish for the average practitioner in a hundred years. Alan is wrong on this one. He's wrong about brain stimulation too, which is hitting clinics now with a greatly improved level of quality (and one kind, neurofeedback, has been available for many decades and is advancing as fast as computing power will allow) and will likely prove even more effective than psychedelics soon enough. And it can be combined with psychedelics to take advantage of the neuroplasticity induced by the latter. Alan's position on neurotech and the Dharma is particularly strange considering that the Dalai Lama supports this research. He has stated that if you could get rid of negative emotions through implanting an electrode, without impairing the critical mind, "I would be the first patient".

What an exquisite teaching. Emaho! Praise to the masters of the ancient lineages! May all beings practice with diligence and confidence and actualize the unconditioned joy and freedom of spontaneously accompished suchness!

I think Alan failed to access his substrate consciousness starting at 42:15 lol

By the time she comes out of her planned retreat, the world will be unrecognizable and people will be getting enlightened to her level via technological means with great speed, combining AI and neuroscience. GPT-4 is 900% better after just _six weeks,_ and nobody has no idea where it is heading, except that it is heading somewhere VERY powerful.

Hehe. We _were_ so much more intelligent than everything else. Now...we aren't. Machines are very close to becoming more intelligent than us now, and in less than ten years, will be much more intelligent.

There is no sound 😟

So does that mean if your brain has been damaged and you struggle with brain fog like so many after COVID infections, that you will not be able to achieve shamata because it's harder to access the substrate?

Anyone struggling with low sound quality .. using headphones helps

VOLUME is SUPER LOW via this upload, folks.

The introduction before the meditation is so powerful🙏

How do I know I am watching the space of the mind itself and not a projected image of what it would be like after this beautiful meditation? And why are thoughts and feelings etc said to be coming up, couldn't it be my awareness that is moving and directing a light the midst of the flow of the thoughts, feelings and images I am passing by? Sometimes I feel everything else is still, is my awareness that is moving and picking up content in the "frozen" pool of my mind. Can someone share thoughts?

Eva Natanya's name deserves to be put in the titles of the videos she is in. Thank you! I find the videos of both Alan and Eva to be very beneficial.

Yes,they all are,can hardly hear.

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