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Spring 2011 Shamatha Retreat

B. Alan Wallace
10 Apr 2011 – 04 Jun 2011
Thanyapura Mind Centre, Phuket, Thailand

Dharma talks and guided meditations given six days per week during the Spring, 2011 eight-week Shamatha retreat at the Thanyapura Mind Centre in Phuket, Thailand, with B. Alan Wallace. Podcasts will be posted daily during the retreat.

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B. Alan Wallace, 26 May 2011

This morning’s session is an unguided open practice, followed by brief Q&A. The meditation period is not included.

Alan answers these questions:

1. In awareness of awareness, how can I most effectively release medium excitation other than relaxing more?

2. In settling the mind in its natural state, during the period of “in the seen, let there be just the seen,” I’m still aware of my breath as well as thoughts arising. What to do?

3. In settling the mind in its natural state, there are now longer and longer intervals between thoughts. What should I be doing in these gaps? Think? Let it be?

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