Spring 2012 Shamatha Retreat Podcast
1) 94 Loving-Kindness. Q&A
Aspiring for genuine happiness. Unguided meditation not included. Q&A What do i have to do to achieve stage 4 outside of retreat? What does full enlightenment mean?
2) 93 Practice in the Spirit of Loving-Kindess, Q&A
We proceed directly into meditation with loving kindness for ourself, then spend the remaining time with Q&A. Q&A (at 24:51) * Subtlety of subjectivity in lucid dreams. * Achieving shamatha while d...Show More
3) 92 Morning Q&A
We are encouraged to practice the four immeasurables in a spirit of looking back on our retreat and broader past. Then we receive advice around the question, "How do we prepare for death when we have ...Show More
4) 91 Practice in the Spirit of Loving-Kindness. Q&A
Enter your practice in the spirit of loving-kindness, particularly when the mind is prone to rumination. Consider the analogy of the horse saved from a burning barn, scared and frantic—never would you...Show More
5) 90 Morning Q&A
How to help people ? What aspects of dharma speak of developing these abilities and is there a first aid guide for specific ailments ?
6) 89 A wellspring of good advice
Our shamatha practice can help keep us cognitively tuned while back in the big world, even if we can only practice briefly during the day. In times when we are fatigued from stress, full-body awarenes...Show More
7) 88 The Four Immeasurables
Alan explains why the four immeasurables build a perfect system by each backing up one of the others. Silent meditation
8) 87 Awareness of Awareness (4)
We expand upon the two methods given by Panchen Lama Rinpoche of managing incoming thoughts: in the first, after flicking an arrow of thought, what remains in its place is awareness—a knowing devoid o...Show More
9) 86 Equanimity
Alan gives the remaining two of Buddhaghosa's fourfold analyses of the four immeasurables, those of empathetic joy and of equanimity. The analyses consist of the false facsimile, the diametric opposit...Show More
10) 85 Awareness of Awareness (3)
When performed in the method described by Panchen Lama Rinpoche of letting thoughts emerge and dissolve on their own like a raven on a ship, awareness of awareness qualifies as a practice of shamatha,...Show More