The Way of Shamatha Retreat with Alan Wallace (1/26)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- This session is from the retreat: Way of Shamatha: Soothing the Body, Calming the Mind, Illuminating Awareness with Alan Wallace.
During this retreat, Alan explored in theory and practice a range of methods for developing meditative quiescence, or shamatha. It began with the practice of mindfulness of the breathing as taught by the Buddha, which is an especially effective approach to soothing the body and calming the discursive mind.
Then explored an approach to shamatha that is particularly pertinent for Dzogchen practice, called “settling the mind in its natural state,” as taught by the nineteenth-century Dzogchen master Lerab Lingpa in his commentary to the Heart Essence of Vimalamitra.
Finally, Lama Alan taught the practice of “shamatha without signs” as taught by Padmasambhava in his classic terma Natural Liberation. Although this subtle practice is taught explicitly as a means of achieving shamatha, Padmasambhava comments that it may even result in a realization of rigpa, or pristine awareness.
The achievement of shamatha is widely regarded in the Buddhist tradition as an indispensable foundation for the cultivation of contemplative insight (vipashyana), and this retreat is designed to provide students with a sufficient theoretical understanding and a basis in experience to enable them to proceed effectively toward this extraordinary state of mental and physical balance.
This retreat was co-led with scholar and practitioner of Buddhism, Eva Natanya, (who has edited two of Alan’s most recent books Open Mind and Fathoming the Mind) to lead one guided meditation each day followed by a Q&A session with all participants.
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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)…! ❤
Indeed.
May you remain on the path until you become a perfect guide that couldn't possibly bear to leave a single sentient being in confusion.
May the world never be without a guide 🙏
May we become that guide in order to ensure that beings are never without a light in the world 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for posting! Meditation starts at 1:08:16 for those who want to listen more than once
Gratitude for democratizing this valuable knowledge
One of the most elaborate yet practical relaxation methods I have ever experienced
Thank you so much for posting this retreat on youtube! So wonderful to see Lama Alan and hear him....absolutely wonderful!!!
Thank you Alan for sharing your teachings. Jeff McGuire Reno, Nevada
É um encanto a genialidade do Lama, best teacher ever S2
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!
and I'm watching this just up the road from Greenock. haha, peace!
Thank you for these wonderful recordings!
So Wonderful!! Thank you!
Thank you!
An infinite stream of gratitude to you all 🙏
Namo Guru!
Will these retreats be commencing again after Coronatimes?
Thank you so much for uploading these ❤
Right now he's doing stuff from home.
@@squamish4244 Do you know where one can access these?
th-cam.com/video/_DNAzUNov5g/w-d-xo.html
More great material from Alan Wallace can be found on Santa Barbara website: sbinstitute.com/product-category/free-options/
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This video has no audio when played on iphone 6s
there seems to be no audio (or next to none apart from the beginning and even this was hard to understand) when played on whatever device. All I tried was in vain.
There's another way of shamatha retreat on the meridian trust website 🙏🙏🙏
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He starts at @20:00
Does anyone know when Alan started being known as Lama Alan? I realise it is a mere label.
lama means teacher......it is an honorific h i think he has earned. anybody?
I don't know when. But in certain traditions, all it sometimes takes is doing a 3 years retreat.
1976 I believe, when he started teaching. Certainly by the 1980s.
14:28 Ah! The great wisdom of Saint Augustine!
AUGUSTINE
They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. The saints knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted with the eternal sufferings of the lost.
[The City of God, Book 20, Chapter 22, "What is Meant by the Good Going Out to See the Punishment of the Wicked" & Book 22, Chapter 30, "Of the Eternal Felicity of the City of God, and of the Perpetual Sabbath"]
TERTULLIAN
What a spectacle when the world and its many products, shall be consumed in one great flame! How vast a spectacle then bursts upon the eye! What there excites my admiration? What my derision? Which sight gives me joy??As I see illustrious monarchs groaning in the lowest darkness, Philosophers as fire consumes them! Poets trembling before the judgment-seat of Christ! I shall hear the tragedians, louder-voiced in their own calamity; view play-actors in the dissolving flame; behold wrestlers, not in their gymnasia, but tossing in the fiery billows. What inquisitor or priest in his munificence will bestow on you the favor of seeing and exulting in such things as these? Yet even now we in a measure have them by faith in the picturings of imagination. [De Spectaculis, Chapter XXX]
THOMAS AQUINAS
In order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned. So that they may be urged the more to praise God. The saints in heaven know distinctly all that happens to the damned. [Summa Theologica, Third Part, Supplement, Question XCIV, "Of the Relations of the Saints Towards the Damned," First Article, "Whether the Blessed in Heaven Will See the Sufferings of the Damned?"]
JONATHAN EDWARDS
The sight of hell torments will exalt the happiness of the saints forever. Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? I tell you, yea! Such will be his sense of justice that it will increase rather than diminish his bliss. ["The Eternity of Hell Torments" (Sermon), April 1739 & Discourses on Various Important Subjects, 1738]
They shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment shall ascend up forever and ever. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
- Revelation 14:9-11; 18:20, 19:3
408 The emperor of the Western Empire, Honorius, and the emperor of the Eastern Empire, Arcadius, order together all the sculptures of the Pagan temples to be either destroyed or to be taken away. Private ownership of Pagan sculpture is also outlawed. The local bishops lead new heavy persecutions against the Pagans and new book burning. The judges that have pity for the Pagans are also persecuted. “Saint” Augustine massacres hundreds of protesting Pagans in Calama, Algeria.
churchandstate.org.uk/2016/06/christian-atrocities-three-centuries-of-pagan-persecution/?fbclid=IwAR1fhNX0AZLXktbQxKwa48dYARQ4kwZ9r_sHCxSrRib6GrEUTPt-J1KFYPA
Are you referring to Christianity ? Please check these evidence especially no.1 and 2:
20 IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE that proved maybe Christianity God is FAKE, don't miss the last paragraph that explains them all:
1) Jesus similarities with Buddha. Maya to Mary, miracle pregnancy to virgin pregnancy, birth during a journey home to from home, prophesied soon after birth, both had a disciple who betrayed them, walked on water, Gautama left the palace at age 29 and Jesus appeared at 29, Gautama became Buddha at 35 and Jesus died and resurrected at around 35 too, after they passed away, 500 arahants witnessed compilation of Buddha's teachings and over 500 witnesses to Jesus's resurrection etc. All coincidental ? Beside Buddha, Jesus also copied from Horus and Mithra. Surely they ALL cannot be coincidental.
2) Many of the Bible's mythologies was copied from older pagans, Greek, Egyptian or Hinduism religions(note the names too) E.g. Adam & Eve story similar to Atman and Jeewa, a pair of birds in Hinduism, big flood and survivor Noah/3 sons same as Manu/3 sons although cause of flood is different. Even the names of Abraham and wife/sister Sarah close to Brahma and Saraswathi beside having similar story. Regardless of which religion copied which, it proved this god is NOT the only true god or all mighty as it doesn't makes sense to create or allow more copies or religions.
3) Why a true all mighty, all knowing and only god allowed their people to branch off and kill their parent religion Judaism ? This alone is enough proof that their God is non-existant. "Free will" as an excuse is not acceptable as earlier they claimed their God killed all people with a big flood(without freewill) because they sinned.
4) The Bible condemned non-followers, clearly mentioned in Mark's words. Why should a Creator God's religion condemn non-believers when in the first place, they claimed their God created the world? Isn't this like playing both sides of the same coin, both good and evil ?
5)Not knowing why or how the world exists don't mean that it was created by a god. Now "Creator" got stale, they use "Intelligent Design" What is so intelligent in its design? If people don't need to go to toilet and don't have unpleasant feelings and sufferings, then I will call it an intelligent design.
6)Wisdom and meditation are not taught by them. Is it because they know meditation can make a person's mind clearer and wiser?
7)The Bible copied so much from older religions but why don't they copy the theory of karma too? Is it because karma debunk the idea of an all mighty God or is it because karma belief prevent people from doing bad deeds ?
8) The way the church preached and claimed simply lacked substance and logic. If you ask them intelligent question, they will always be evasive and say you are not serious or an evil.
9) It don't makes sense to claim that only their believers will go to heaven and others don't since they claimed their God created all people. Such claim is an insult to other religions and cultures and caused people to divide. A good religion should be secular and treat all people equally.
10) The way they collect titlings during Sunday mass is so tricky. They know people will be shy not to pay or tend to pay more when others could be watching. This is why they don't just use a stationed money box like Buddhism, Hinduism or Chinese temples where people can donate anytime. Catholics and Islam made it even bigger by suggesting donation of a certain percentage of their income.
11)Most major festivals and holidays related to Christianity are fake including Christmas(Jesus can't be born in winter), Easter, Thanksgiving, Good Friday, All Souls, Halloween and even New Year are copied from paganism.
12) A true creator god should be the first and only religion. All the pagans, Greek, Chinese, Hinduism religions existed earlier. The Creator claim fake.
13) Using fear like hell or "end of the world" every 2 years but we are still here.
14) The fraud case of Mother Teresa(Google it) and after she died, those money she collected was not returned to India.
15)If their God is all-mighty, why need missionaries to convert others ?
16) The ongoing child sex abuses committed by the pastors/priests that I read so often.
17) The Bible is full of lust(Sodomon's part), evil and violence. Their God killed countless people when Satan only killed a few.
18) The Bible condemned dogs because they know dogs are man's best friend. Making men lonely is the best way to keep them dependant on religion.
19) If God created everybody, why then condemn LGBT ?
20) Incidents, eg: (a) U.S., U.K, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico are all high Christianity populated countries and more people died from Covid-19, (b)The Air Asia plane crash of 2014 killed 41 church members, 2 missionaries and their few month old baby.
Only 1 reason can tie up all 20 points above, this God was man-made to con or control people.
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Norman's book was considered to be a Bible in the Trump family home.
.................. hologram? witches? ..i feel stupid replying, but seems stupid has no limit..........onward ..... lama trump proves it. mb
He should go on the Joe rogan podcast
I was thinking the same thing. Joe's reason for the float tank is total release of all tension. I'm going to do this meditation in my float tank once I clean it out 😅
Lex Fridman would be a better venue for him. Although it would be interesting to see Joe challenge him on things like psychedelics. Alan is actively hostile towards them.
Right at the beginning he bashes electrical stimulation and psychedelics. Alan, seriously. Electrical stimulation of my brain and medical use of psychedelics has changed my life and resulted in huge and permanent shifts in my mental health and well-being, including a substantial quieting of my mind. I busted my ass for many years in meditation and yoga and *nothing changed*. My conditions were too serious.
It is irresponsible of you to talk nonsense like this, because it might keep people who listen to you from getting the help they need!
Could you be a bit more specific, what kind of stimmulation and as to how this application was done, I guess in a professional context?
I have OCD, panic disorder, chronic pain, insomnia and I used to be addicted to anti-anxiety drugs. I've gotten a lot of help from these methodologies:
- *neurofeedback* : www.neuroptimal.com
- *transcranial magnetic stimulation* (this is where I got treated for addiction): homewoodhealth.com/health-centre/rtms
- *audiovisual entrainment:* www.sana.io/
In repeated talks, before electrical stimulation became well-known, Alan only attacked prescription drugs. I didn't agree with that, as it's not his place to do so as he is not a medical professional. But okay, a lot of them have a bad reputation and don't really work. I can see why he went there. But when he attacked electrical stimulation, he went too far.
His reason given for arguing against external forms of altering brain activity is that they don't produce permanent results. But that is incorrect. They do. The evidence is very good.
@@squamish4244 I think Alan making a philosophical argument about the idea of electrodes in your brain constantly stimulating your pleasure circuitry, NOT TMS!
Unfortunately, that's not the argument he makes. The only one I've ever heard, in the context of all previous videos of his, is that using external modes of stimulation, the altering of mental states only produces temporary pleasure, not permanently altered states of persistent well-being or insight. So this is wrong.
Regarding electrical stimulation, the goal is explicitly not to stimulate your pleasure circuitry, but to produce more beneficial mental states. To interrupt OCD circuitry, for instance, you specifically have to break the pleasure circuitry pattern that reinforces OCD in order to stop it. Specialists are very well aware of this. Alan should be too.
No other form of electrical stimulation available does anything else but break the pleasure circuitry. There is no form that increases it. One could certainly be designed, but none has yet.
Alan includes electrical stimulation in the same sentence as alcohol, therefore conflating the two. To someone like myself, who has received TMS, this is unacceptable.
Sometimes spiritual teachers are just wrong. They are not omniscient, they are only human like the rest of us, and they make mistakes. Alan is no different.
@@squamish4244 I'm really glad you found what you wanted from these treatments ❤But let us not imagine that the only people who can speak with authority on these topics are Western doctors. He is entitled to his opinion, and I am personally happy that he shares his opinions without hesitation. All the best!
_Alan is truly superb, his fawning regard for women and his cheap political glitches notwithstanding! But the Vajrayana Institute... well, freedom of expression is not their thing, just as they don’t know how to get the audio levels right for some sessions! My thumb down is given solely to VI!_
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I don't at all agree with Alan on many things, but I've never seen him fawning over women.