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On November 18th, 2020 Lama Alan offered five hours of oral commentary to Drubpön Lama Karma’s experiential account of his own practice of shamatha and subsequent contemplative training. This is Lama Alan’s first teaching at The Center for Contemplative Research at Miyo Samten Ling in Crestone, CO. We are delighted to share with you these inspired teachings, in both audio and video form, and with a Spanish translation also available. Traducción al español disponible. The transcript that Lama Alan was reading from for this commentary has now been revised and is available in the book, Śamatha and Vipaśyanā: An Anthology of Pith Instructions. The content of the teaching is not impacted with the revised translations. Please see below for additional information. -
Lama Alan offers concise, pith instructions on the four revolutions in outlook, the common, outer preliminaries that are the basis for the uncommon inner preliminaries. These teachings are from the 2020 8-week retreat, The Vajra Essence Part I. There are no prerequisites for these teachings. If you would like to register for the entire 8-week retreat you can click here -
During the 2022, The Vajra Essence - Part 3, 8-week retreat, Lama Alan offered three teachings, and meditations, on these essential, integrated shamatha meditations:- Mindfulness of breathing,
- Taking the mind as the path and
- Shamatha without a sign.
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Lama Alan Wallace Public Teachings While in Retreat. On Guru Rinpoche Day, November 22, 2023, Lama Alan emerged from retreat silence for a few hours to offer a very meaningful public talk. This was held in the stillness of Manjushri Chapel at Miyo Samten Ling with the yogis in long-term retreat present. This talk was inspired by the excerpt, Value of Observing the Mind, from The Royal Seal of Mahamudra, Volume One, by The Third Khamtrul Rinpoche Ngawang Kunga Tenzin. Lama Alan continued this series of teachings on Dakini Day, January 6, 2024, and then he continued teaching on a regular basis throughout 2024. Register for this ongoing series of talks from this precious time while Lama Alan is in retreat. Each of the teachings are available with audio and video recordings and are being offered free of charge for all who are interested. Please read below for additional information. Por favor, leer la siguiente información adicional. Traducción al español disponible.
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Mahamudra Shamatha Teachings with Drubpon Lama Karma
This retreat with Drupön Lama Karma is no longer available. In the future, registration for retreats with Drupön Lama Karma will only be available for a few months after the retreat is concluded.
November 2023, Part 1, Three-Month Series
Drubpon Lama Karma provides detailed instructions on the practice of Shamatha from the Mahamudra perspective, based on his own experience from years of meditation retreats. These teachings began on November 3, 2023 and continued on a weekly basis for three months. The teachings are available in both audio and video recordings. The teachings are in Tibetan language with English translation. The videos of these teachings are in the process of being updated on YouTube with Spanish and Portuguese closed captions (CC). The first few sessions are now available. You can watch the first session of this series of Shamatha teachings free on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK10qdh4j2I You can read more about Lama Karma and these teachings by clicking here. If you need a scholarship for this series, please email: karmajnana108@gmail.com -
We are delighted to be able to share H.E. Jamyang Dagmo Sakya Dagmola’s teaching on Drakpa Gyaltsen’s commentary on Parting from the Four Types of Clinging, given in Santa Barbara, California, January 2012 Courtesy of Tara Ling Santa Barbara Please do NOT share this recording publicly in any way, on the internet, on any other platform, or any other means of distribution. This is being offered in conjunction with the release of, Śamatha and Vipaśyanā: An Anthology of Pith Instructions, composed and translated by B. Alan Wallace and Eva Natanya. We highly recommend this book for a deeper understanding of this text. Теперь доступны на русском языке четыре учения, вышедшие в рамках публикации сборника «Шаматха и Випашьяна: Антология сущностных наставлений». Учение Досточтимой Джамьянг Дагмо Сакья Дагмолы по комментарию Дракпы Гьялцена к тексту «Отречение от четырёх видов привязанности», дарованное в Санта-Барбаре, Калифорния, январь 2012 года
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H.H. the Dalai Lama’s commentary to A Shower of Siddhis: A Song of the Four Recollections, Guidance in the View of the Middle Way
We are delighted to share with you H.H. the Dalai Lama’s commentary to A Shower of Siddhis: A Song of the Four Recollections, Guidance in the View of the Middle Way in Zollikon, Switzerland, 1979 Courtesy of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, India Please do NOT share this recording publicly in any way, on the internet, on any other platform, or any other means of distribution. This is being offered in conjunction with the release of, Śamatha and Vipaśyanā: An Anthology of Pith Instructions, composed and translated by B. Alan Wallace and Eva Natanya. We highly recommend this book for a deeper understanding of this text. Теперь доступны на русском языке четыре учения, вышедшие в рамках публикации сборника «Шаматха и Випашьяна: Антология сущностных наставлений». Комментарий Его Святейшества Далай-Ламы к тексту «Дождь реализаций: Песнь четырёх памятований», наставление о взгляде срединного пути, данное в Цолликоне, Швейцария, 1979 год -
Gyatrul Rinpoche’s talk on “Karma Chakmé and Mingyur Dorjé,” recorded in 1989
Gyatrul Rinpoche’s talk on “Karma Chakmé and Mingyur Dorjé,” translated by Sangye Khandro, given at the Shambhala Meditation Center of Los Angeles, January 6, 1989. Courtesy of Shambhala Meditation Center of Los Angeles. Please do NOT share this recording publicly in any way, on the internet, on any other platform, or any other means of distribution. This is being offered in conjunction with the release of, Śamatha and Vipaśyanā: An Anthology of Pith Instructions, composed and translated by B. Alan Wallace and Eva Natanya. We highly recommend this book for a deeper understanding of this text. Теперь доступны на русском языке четыре учения, вышедшие в рамках публикации сборника «Шаматха и Випашьяна: Антология сущностных наставлений». Учения Гьятрула Ринпоче на тему «Карма Чакме и Мингюр Дордже», перевод с английского Сангье Кхандро, дарованные в Медитационном центре Шамбалы, Лос-Анджелес, 6 января 1989 года
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H.H. the Dalai Lama’s commentary to The Eight-Verse Mind Training
We are delighted to be able to share H.H. the Dalai Lama’s commentary to The Eight-Verse Mind Training, given at the Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies, Mt. Pèlerin, Switzerland, July 1979 Courtesy of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, India Please do NOT share this recording publicly in any way, on the internet, on any other platform, or any other means of distribution. This is being offered in conjunction with the release of, Śamatha and Vipaśyanā: An Anthology of Pith Instructions, composed and translated by B. Alan Wallace and Eva Natanya. We highly recommend this book for a deeper understanding of this text. Теперь доступны на русском языке четыре учения, вышедшие в рамках публикации сборника «Шаматха и Випашьяна: Антология сущностных наставлений». Комментарий Его Святейшества Далай-Ламы к «Восьми строфам тренировки ума», дарованный в Институте высших тибетских исследований, Монт-Пелерин, Швейцария, июль 1979 года -
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Join Drupön Lama Karma for a three-month series of teachings on Extracting the Vital Essence of Accomplishment: Concise and Clear Advice for Practice in a Mountain Retreat by Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdrel Yeshe Dorji
This retreat with Drupön Lama Karma is no longer available. In the future, registration for retreats with Drupön Lama Karma will only be available for a few months after the retreat is concluded.
Mountain Dharma is a presentation of the personal and intimate advice from the great Dzogchen Master Dudjom Rinpoche to a group of students in preparation for meditation retreat. Ever masterful, Dudjom Rinpoche, whose life and work provided a brilliant example of a Tibetan rigzin’s full awareness, tells a group of yogis how to use an extended period of seclusion in a mountain hermitage to recognize the nature of mind in his tradition. In this instruction, he is down to earth and eminently practical. The text is short but a seminal exposition of the view. Drupön Lama Karma received this instructions from his root guru Lama Naljorpa Rinpoche. The teachings will be held every Friday beginning June 28h, 2025, until Friday, Sept 26th, 2025. Sessions will be from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. PST. You can check your timezone here. The sessions will be recorded so if you cannot attend the live session you will have access to both video and audio recordings. These teachings will be conducted online in Tibetan, with English translation, as well as Spanish and Russian translation. You can read more about Drupön Lama Karma here. There is a sliding scale to attend these teachings. Please see the options below. Should you need a scholarship please email: karmajnana108@gmail.com Please read below for additional information. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to receive these teachings from Drupön Lama Karma. -
In this meditation seminar, Alan Wallace teaches a sequence of meditations for cultivation of the "Four Immeasurables," namely loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and impartiality. These are followed by the teachings and practice of Buddhist Mind-Training, or "Lojong." While many teachings on Buddhist meditation fill us with a longing to spend more time in quiet, solitary meditation, these practies bring us back to life, to the active world of living with others. The optimal situation to apply these teachings on cultivating a good heart is active life, socially engaged with other people at home and about town, moving away from habitual self-centeredness to greater empathy and loving concern for the welfare for those around us. Regardless of whether we hold to any religious beliefs, these practices can be of benefit to everyone seeking to explore their own capacity to experience unconditional love and compassion. Recorded in November 2009 at the historic Santa Barbara Mission. Please select from the DVD video, MP3 CD disc, or the download audio files -
This retreat provides an overview of the central themes of the 42-hour training program called "Cultivating Emotional Balance" devised by the eminent psychologist Paul Ekman, Ph.D. and B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. at the request of HH the Dalai Lama. Focusing on both theory and practice, Alan Wallace explains four aspects of mental balance: conative, attentional, cognitive, and emotional. Conative balance has to do with cultivating meaningful desires and aspirations that truly contribute to one's own and others' wellbeing. Attentional balance focuses on overcoming attention deficit and hyperactivity, replacing these imbalances with a sense of inner calm, centeredness, and clarity. Cognitive balance is achieved through the cultivation of mindfulness so that we can experience the world without cognitive distortions. Finally, emotional balance maybe achieved through enhancing the positive emotions of loving kindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity while bringing afflictive emotional states under control through understanding and meditation. The weekend included guided meditations, lectures and open discussion. This audio stream/download via Dropbox (no account is needed), chronicles the weekend retreat held in Santa Barba's historical Old Mission from Feb 3rd-5th, 2012. Available on DVD, or Audio Stream/download. Select the type of media that you want. The DVD will be shipped via the US Postal Service. The audio files will be downloadable - you will receive an email with details. -
In this weekend retreat held in Santa Barbara, California, B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. explores methods of cultivating genuine happiness. The retreat consists of meditation, lecture, and discussion periods focusing on the themes found in Wallace's book "Genuine Happiness." These include methods for cultivating attentional stability and vividness, contemplative insight, and the Four Immeasurables of loving kindness, equanimity, compassion and sympathetic joy. The teachings are designed to help us integrate practice into our everyday life in the world through mind training. The downloadable MP3 audio files, and the four-disc DVD video set, chronicles the weekend retreat "The Cultivation of Genuine Happiness Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment" held at Santa Barbara's historical Old Mission July 24-26, 2009.Please select either the DVD video collection, or the download MP3 audio files and PDF.
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Shamatha Teachings with Drupla Tsampa Karma Translated by Khenpo Namchak Dorji Recorded in October 19 and 20, 2019 (one and a half day retreat) The translation for these teachings has now been revised and is available in the book, Śamatha and Vipaśyanā: An Anthology of Pith Instructions. The content of the teaching is not impacted with the revised translations.