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  • Large S Samadhi

    Excerpts from 2008 Retreats with B. Alan Wallace on Core Buddhist Teachings.

  • Experience, Reason & Faith in Science & Religion

    In today's world, religion is strongly tied to faith, whereas science is thought to be ruled by experience and reason, and when the two are viewed in this way, they appear to be largely incompatible with each other, or at...

  • Achieving Free Will: A Buddhist Perspective

    In this lecture Alan Wallace discussed how Buddhism focuses on achieving greater freedom in the choices we make, rather than struggling with the metaphysical issue of whether we already have free will. The Buddha began by...

  • Two Modes of Happiness

    Two Modes of Happiness

  • Meditation Instruction

    Shamatha is a path of attentional development that culminates in an attention that can be sustained effortlessly for a long period of time. Shamatha practice doesn't require allegiance to any religious creed or ideology....

  • Emptiness & Quantum Mechanics
  • Suffering
  • Vajra Essence

    This is the opening talk from the Vajra Essence Vipashyana Retreat, which was held on August 30, 2009, in Santa Barbara, CA.
     

  • What is Mind?

    Excerpts from 2008 Retreats with B. Alan Wallace on Core Buddhist Teachings.
    What is Mind?

  • What is Samadhi?
  • Paths to Perfection:

    Paths to Perfection: Contemplative Practices in Christianity & Buddhism
    Recorded at Unity Church, Santa Barbara, CA, March 12, 2008
     
    Jesus counseled his followers to be perfect as their Father...

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