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Shamatha, Vipashyana, Mahamudra, and Dzogchen

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Shamatha, Vipashyana, Mahamudra, and Dzogchen

B. Alan Wallace

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Spring 8-Week retreat on Shamatha, Vipashyana, and Mahamudra, based upon two texts: Panchen Lozang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Jinas: A Root Text on the Precious Geluk-Kagyü Mahamudra Tradition, and Karma Chagmé’s Naked Awareness: Practical Teachings on the Union. During this year's 8-week retreat Alan will grant the oral transmission and commentary to the teachings on the root text The Highway of the Jinas: A Root Text on the Precious Geluk-Kagyü Mahamudra Tradition and its auto-commen ...
 
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Supply Chain Talks

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Supply Chain Talks

Port of Rotterdam

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The must watch talk show for global supply chain professionals is now available as podcast. After each edition of the Supply Chain Talks we sit down with one of our guests and continue the conversation. Start listening while preparing lunch or take your podcast with you as you go on your daily walk.
 
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#6: Margriet Geluk, Young Port Talent of the Year 14:24

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While being in the midst of the transition to a sustainable society, we simultaneously see sustainability increasingly becoming a competitive factor throughout the supply chain. Digitisation of logistics processes is inextricably linked to this development. Margriet Geluk, Supply Chain Engineer at the NPRC and Young Port Talent of the Year explains…
 
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#5: Bart Leenders, Port Man of the Year 20:42

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Neste is the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel refined from waste and residues. The Finnish company serves a strong purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. In this Portcast we learn from Bart Leenders, vice president Renewable Products at Neste and Port Man of the Year, how they managed this …
 
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#4: Evelien Bras, FERM 23:06

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COVID-19 has shined a bright light on the state of cybersecurity around the world. The pandemic led to an influx of cybercrime. The FBI reports that since the start of the coronavirus, cyberattacks have increased by 300%. This trend, also highlighted by Google, showed the company blocked over 18 million coronavirus phishing attempts each day since …
 
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#3: René de Vries, Harbour Master Rotterdam 15:37

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In the port of Rotterdam the Harbour Master's Division receives reports on approximately 230,000 port calls a year. Until recently, those reports were made by email and telephone. These days, 80% of them are processed automatically because the data are right. Data as such are not that valuable. The value is to be found in the insights the data deli…
 
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#2: Bart Kuipers, Erasmus Center for Urban, Port and Transport Economics 26:14

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As the world reels from another disruption to the global supply chain during the blocking of the Suez Canal, while coping with the ongoing challenges caused by the pandemic, it has been a challenging time for all parties in the global supply chain. But how well can you prepare for the unthinkable? What will be the long-term impact? And what could h…
 
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#1: Annet Koster, Director KVNR 29:40

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Did you know 90% of world trade is transported by ship? And around 1.7 million seafarers on 61,000 ships make sure global trade continues 24/7 even during a pandemic and we never run out of supplies? These are the facts. Yet the general public does not seem to be aware of how crucial and progressive the sector is. It is an industry that deserves mo…
 
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93 Final Meditation and Q&A session

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Alan started the session with a guided meditation summarising all the practices we have done during this retreat, culminating in Dzogchen non-meditation. It is never too soon to begin the Dzogchen practice and on occasion try to rest in non-doing, non-meditation - says Alan. It is good to sow the seeds for future practice. The rest of the session i…
 
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92 Conclusion of Naked Awareness & Pointing-out Instructions from The Vajra Essence

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Alan started the session by going directly into meditation, in a practice where we directed our awareness towards the space of our body, the space of our mind and, finally, awareness itself. Following the meditation, Alan did a quick reflection over the theme of strategy for our path, highlighting as before some of the underlying assumptions behind…
 
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91 The Essence of Buddha Nature or Sugatagarbha - Bodhicitta

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To introduce the essence of Buddha nature, Alan reads and explains the final parable of the chapter “An Introduction to Parables and Their Meanings” from page 94 to 96 of Naked Awareness. There is an analogy between Buddha mind and our mind: like the essence of gold is immutable, even if you can melt it and mould it into many different forms, simil…
 
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SPECIAL: A Shower of Blessings from Tuscany - Group Visit to the Retreat Land

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Dear Friends, Today the whole group made an historical visit with Alan to the site of potentially the first Contemplative Observatory - a land blessed by Khadro-la where people can achieve shamatha, as she commented. The podcast includes two parts: (1) Alan's summary of the current situation (the sound quality is reasonable, and just the first 3 mi…
 
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90 Alan Has Arranged a Marriage with Avalokiteshvara for Us

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The next session of the text in this chapter is on guru yoga (Naked Awareness p. 273). In the introduction, Karma Chagmé says “The best way to counteract obstructive forces, avoid pitfalls, and enhance your practice is guru yoga.” The central point of this practice is to realize the indivisibility of your own mind with the mind of the guru, or rigp…
 
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89 What Do You Want? Be Content or Become a Siddha?

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Alan begun this morning Dharma talk with one of his favorite parables (Naked Awareness p.93), and it is about a king who asked an illusionist to create an illusion as a means of causing his son to be drawn to Dharma. Alan pointed that just as the prince couldn’t recall the very first moment of falling into that trance – otherwise he would be lucid …
 
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88 Great Equanimity in the light of Dzogchen

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Note: this is the only lecture for today, 19th May, because Alan will give a public talk at the University of Pisa. Alan starts with reading “The analogy of seeing a rope as a snake” from “Naked Awareness”, on page 91. Here a man mistook a rope for a poisonous snake and got frightened until a friend showed him that it was just a rope. Alan comments…
 
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87 A Parable with Pointing Out Instructions to Cut-Through to Rigpa

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Alan first reads and discusses two of the parables and commentary in Karma Chagme’s text “Naked Awareness” on page 88 of the orphan son, and page 89 of an old man losing his cord. He comments on realising the nature of one’s own mind right down to the ground – the in-dwelling mind of clear light, Dharmakaya, Buddha-nature. Then Alan comments on the…
 
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86 The Renaissance and The Revolution Can Begin in Galileo’s Homeland - Maha Mudita

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Alan continues the teaching on the four greats by venturing into Maha Mudita, Great Empathetic Joy. In the Mahayana Buddhist context, reaching the path of accumulation entails the achievement of shamatha and bodhicitta, and then sealing it with insight into emptiness – there is no going back from there. Alan comments that Buddhism is not evangelica…
 
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85 “Non-meditation” & The Fivefold Practices

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Alan begins by saying that Panchen Rinpoche has made a magnificent job in bringing together these two great traditions of Gelug and Kagyu. Alan then comments that if we are operating from the perspective of a sentient being, it is going to take at least 3 countless eons to achieve awakening. But, if we realise emptiness with the very subtle mind (r…
 
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84 The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel and Great Loving Kindness

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Alan begins the session by talking about the importance of settling the body, speech and mind in their natural states. After that he goes to “An Introduction to a Parable and its Meaning Taught by Siddha Orgyan” about a wish-fulfilling jewel on page 87 of Naked Awareness. The wish-fulfilling jewel is, of course, our own Buddha Nature. He then talks…
 
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83 Rigpa Is Your Warp Drive to Enlightenment

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Tonight we return again to the theme of the path and to the four applications of mindfulness discussed yesterday. This time, Alan gives a presentation of the four application of mindfulness in the context of Mahamudra. First, however, he points out that contrary to some views which present Buddhism as “selfish” - centred only on “me” and “mine”, as…
 
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82 Prince or Beggar? Who You Really Are… & Cultivating Great Compassion

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The “four immeasurables” we meditated on last week are common to many Buddhist and non-Buddhist traditions. They can be cultivated while striving for individual liberation. Today, however, we cross the “continental divide” - as Alan calls it - to the “four greats”. Starting with the great compassion, Maha Karuna. It is sometimes referred to as “unb…
 
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81 Assessing Different Levels of Realization

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Alan began the session with the warning that this afternoon’s session would be dense, which prompted laugh from everyone in the room, given that all previous sessions have already been pretty dense! He then elaborated on the three higher trainings (ethics, samadhi and wisdom), saying that in the beginning of the path, the importance of ethics could…
 
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80 Developing Pure Vision & the Power of Equanimity

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Alan began by introducing the practice of Equanimity and by giving a snapshot of his experience the day before at a virtual reality laboratory founded in 1991 in Pisa. Alan then drew a deeply meaningful parallel between the reality we can experience in a lab with such refined instruments and the reality we experience while we are in a lucid dream. …
 
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Alan Wallace's response to the article "Buddhist meditation and cognitive sciences"

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Dear Friends, This is a trimmed version of podcast 79, which includes only Alan's response to the article "Buddhist meditation and cognitive sciences", by Daniel Simpson. Link to the article. · From the article “Buddhist meditation and cognitive sciences”: o Regarding the kinds of dialogues that are promoted by the Mind & Life Institute, anthropolo…
 
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79 Why do Scientists Refuse to Look through Buddhists’ Telescope?

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Alan starts by explaining that there are two approaches to Mahamudra: the Vajrayana and the Sutrayana. The Vajrayana approach is embedded in the Kagyu tradition, where Mahamudra is placed in the culminating phase of the stage of completion. The assumption is that you’ve already laid a solid foundation in Sutrayana practice – bodhicitta, realization…
 
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78 Have a Heart Like an Ocean

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Alan starts by saying that this retreat has been embedded in the Buddhist teachings. It would be meaningless to teach Mahamudra in a secular way. It’s been wonderful to be totally immersed in a way of viewing reality and a way of practicing and leading our lives that have these three elements, profoundly integrated: the pursuit of happiness, the pu…
 
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77 The Four Types of Mindfulness in Taking the Mind as the Path and Vipashyana

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We started the session with a quick review of the four types of mindfulness, with Alan mentioning that usually, for the untrained mind, there’s not even the capacity to distinguish between stillness and motion, with cognitive fusion with movements of mind occurring as a most common experience. Alan then did a review of the four types of mindfulness…
 
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76 Writing Your Own Namtar - Empathetic Joy

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Following the classical sequence of the four immeasurables, Alan today turns to empathetic joy or mudita. He explains that the near enemy of compassion is grief and despair or, expressed in a modern term, depression. During the cultivation of compassion, we attend to a great extent to the evil things in the world. Especially for us, living in the 2…
 
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75 Cultivating Intelligence in Meditation Practice

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Alan says that in the context of shamatha meditation there is a pyramid with the foundation being the ease, relaxation and stillness whereas at the top of the pyramid there is the clarity, vividness and acuity. The practice of vipashyana is all at the top of the pyramid. In practicing vipashyana we are cultivating the psychological factor of prajna…
 
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74 Practicing Compassion by Taking Suffering onto the Path

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Alan continues the meditative contemplation of compassion that we may be free of suffering and its causes by describing the aspiration as simple, yet deep and subtle. This is because there are three types of suffering that become deeper and subtler the more we investigate. Firstly, blatant suffering of pain, misery, unhappiness and so on; secondly,…
 
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73 The Emptiness of All Phenomena

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NOTE: only the first 50 seconds come from the back-up recorder, and the quality is not optimal. Apologies for that. Alan begins the session by commenting on the difference between the way phenomena appear and the way they exist. It’s very common when we are pointing the finger at something, at an object or a person, to reify that object or that per…
 
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72 Compassion for Oneself and The Path

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Alan talks today about the second of the four immeasurables, compassion. Like loving kindness, compassion is an aspiration and requires conative intelligence. It is the wish for sentient beings to be free of suffering and the causes of suffering. As such, we can ask ourselves how we’ve been doing so far at eliminating our own suffering? How is it w…
 
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71 What Is a “Smordge” and How Does It Exist?

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In the next section of the text, Panchen Lama is taking us from the limited domain of examining the self and establishing the absence of inherently existent self to the domain of all phenomena. Alan reminds us of a previous reference to the six elements in the analysis of the self. At that time, we examined these six elements individually and colle…
 
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70 Rewrite the History That Is Blocking Your Heart

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“I’m in the mood for weaving” - with these words Alan begins the morning session. And he does weave together - loving kindness, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking, Shakespeare, Shantideva and much more… Loving kindness stems from the primal drive of caring. Insofar as the mind rests in its natural state, this flow of caring is unimpeded - says Alan. If …
 
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69 Further Investigation of Inherent Existence

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We started the session by going directly to the Panchen Lama’s text, as Alan revised an initial translation he had proposed for an earlier part of the text. After that update, we continued on that section of the text (stanza 29), which served as the basis for the meditation session, which was silent. The instructions were to rest initially in aware…
 
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68 Two Routes to Liberation & the Power of Loving Kindness

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This morning’s session outlined that there are two routes to liberation – one of faith and one of contemplating enquiry. The route we are studying during this retreat is the latter. Alan explained that the near enemy (or false facsimile) of Loving Kindness is self-centred attachment. He guided us to look back and examine the multiple manifestations…
 
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67 Because Suffering has No Owner

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We continue to follow the strategy presented by Panchen Rinpoche, examining carefully the way we abide, in contrast to the mode of appearances. As we all know, we appear in very different ways, ever changing - even from day to day, we don't look the same. But in contrast, when we think of our childhood, we think ‘that was me when I was a child’. Or…
 
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66 Caring is What Abides, the Lovable Quality

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This morning, Alan integrated all theories and practices we've been doing during these last five weeks. He started by coming back to the pith instructions from Panchen Rinpoche yesterday: examine very closely the way of existing or the way of abiding, the way you appear and the way you apprehend yourself. And then he explained that the way of abidi…
 
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65 Examining our Manifest Nature

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Alan begins the session by frontloading the meditation, indicating what sort of inquiry we will find later when we return to the Panchen Lama’s text, by reflecting on three questions: (i) how do we exist?, (ii) how do we appear? and (iii) how do we apprehend ourselves? Before moving on to the actual meditation, Alan made some additional comments ab…
 
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64 What Do You Want?

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Alan reminds us that we are now more than five weeks in retreat and during that time he taught a variety of methods for shamatha, vipashyana and mahamudra. All the teaching he is transmitting are responses to the questions: What do you want? What is your heart’s desire? What will truly bring you happiness? These questions can initiate a dialog with…
 
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63 Reification Is the Root of All Mental Afflictions

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Alan says we will return to vipashyana territory, based on the current theme of the Panchen Rinpoche’s text on emptiness. Alan describes two technical terms central to Prasangika Madhyamika – the basis of designation (or imputation) and the designated (or imputed) object. He illustrates how each and any of our senses or mental activity can provide …
 
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62 Taking Responsibility for Skilfully Addressing Obscurations

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Alan reminds us of Padmasambhava’s pith instruction that makes the path to enlightenment so easy - to observe one’s mind. However, for most people this is not sufficient to progress as we have obscurations, particularly conative obscurations that are difficult to be rid of as we are all so busy, despite that for many of us our survival isn’t depend…
 
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61 The Sharp Sword of Intelligence - Identifying the Object of Negation

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As we begin to venture into the next section of Panchen Rinpoche’s text, in this session Alan starts the inquiry into the object of negation. The object of refutation is a self that exists prior to and independent of any conceptual designation. This is connate ignorance, but with prajna, the sharp sword of intelligence, we can apprehend the absence…
 
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60 Acquiring a Telescope and Merging the Mind with Space

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Alan begins by talking about the fact that he would love to see a revitalization of contemplative inquiry, and he reiterates the idea emphasized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama that in Buddhism there is a science of the mind, not just a philosophical or religious tradition. Not everyone who reads science wants to become a scientist, and likewise, th…
 
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59 Vulnerable Spot of the Death Star

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Before the meditation, Alan comments on the uniqueness of the contemplative practice. He refers again to Kurt Danziger’s article (link available in Retreat Notes), explaining why introspection was largely abandoned by 20th century psychology. According to Alan, eliminating introspection is comparable to astronomers no longer wanting to look at the …
 
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58 Non-Duality of Luminosity and Emptiness

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In this morning’s teaching Alan elaborates on the notion that rigpa is right where we are looking when observing the mind. But do we see it? We are looking right at it but not seeing it clearly due to the thick layers of obscurations. However, one crucial theme that pervades all levels of observing the mind, from the coarse to the most subtle, is t…
 
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57 Padmasambhava’s Instructions that point out Rigpa

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Alan begins by recalling Padmasambhava’s pointing out instructions presented earlier, stating that if one is extremely gifted, ripe, that could be sufficient to cut all the way through to rigpa, primordial consciousness. We are now going deep into vipashyana territory. Alan then comments on the practice we did earlier, which engages in the search o…
 
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56 Engaging in the Search for the Mind

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Alan reminds us the pointing instructions of Padmasambhava when he repeatedly said “observe your mind, observe your mind”. For some people that may be sufficient, for others perhaps just observing the mind is sufficient, but for most of us while we observe this ordinary consciousness of the present, that is what he is referring to, saying this is t…
 
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55 Taking Vipashyana as Hot Chili, Just Enough to Spice our Shamatha Practice a Bit

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Alan starts by giving us a suggestion: for our whole life, from now until our enlightenment, we should evaluate our practice in a eudaimonic way - based on what we brought to the practice, on how we responded, and not based on what happened to us during the practice. An important point is that shamatha and vipashyana practices can be very dry, not …
 
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54 There is Hope! Alan introduces Donald Hoffman

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Alan starts remembering the pointing out instructions of Padmasambhava that he read yesterday. In the preface, Padmasambhava says he is pointing out to what he called by many different names: atman, middle way view, emptiness, tathagatagarbha, alaya, perfection of wisdom, and so forth. And then there are two phases: in the first he challenges us - …
 
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53 Pointing out Instructions by Padmasambhava

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Alan begins the session on a playful tone, saying he invited a guest speaker to lead this afternoon’s meditation session. After a brief commentary, we then move on to the session, that consisted of Alan reading pointing out instructions to rigpa, by the Lake-Born Vajra, a speech emanation of Padmasambhava. After the meditation, we return to the Pan…
 
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