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10 Introduction to Shamatha Without a Sign

10 Introduction to Shamatha Without a Sign

FromFall 2014 Shamatha, Vipashyana, Dream Yoga


10 Introduction to Shamatha Without a Sign

FromFall 2014 Shamatha, Vipashyana, Dream Yoga

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Released:
Aug 27, 2014
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Podcast episode

Description

Alan encourages those following the retreat through the podcasts to obtain a copy of his translation of Natural Liberation, our text for the remainder of the retreat. The meditation that Alan guided is found on page 105 of the text.

The familiar quality control monitor of introspection is not mentioned in shamatha without a sign practices because there is no vector for awareness. In this practice the oscillation between the arousal of the intensity of awareness and its release will by itself dispel laxity and lethargy.

Between sessions, as you move through the day, try to maintain stillness of awareness amidst the motion of appearances.

Meditation starts at 11:42
Released:
Aug 27, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (72)

This eight-week retreat will focus on three of the six transitional processes, namely: the Transitional Process of Living, with teachings on śamatha and vipaśyanā, the Transitional Process of Dreaming, with teachings on dream yoga, and the Transitional Process of Meditation with teachings on Dzogchen meditation. All these teachings will be based on the text The Profound Dharma of The Natural Emergence of the Peaceful and Wrathful from Enlightened Awareness Stage of Completion Instructions on the Six Transitional Processes, an “earth terma” of teachings by Padmasambhava, revealed by Karma Lingpa in the fourteen century. The English translation of this text has been published under the title Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava’s Teachings on the Six Bardos, with commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche and translated by B. Alan Wallace.