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37 Carried away with enthusiasm

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Fall 2014 Shamatha, Vipashyana, Dream Yoga

B. Alan Wallace
21 Aug 2014 – 16 Oct 2014
Thanyapura Mind Centre, Phuket, Thailand

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.

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B. Alan Wallace, 12 Sep 2014

Very short podcast where Alan talks of his boundless enthusiasm for the teachings before entering into a silent meditation (not included in the podcast).

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Transcript

Oh la so.

So you may have noticed that I have kind of boundless enthusiasm for these teachings in the Natural Liberation, I mean kind of like boundless, and sometimes the enthusiasm in teaching, that’s just giving the teachings themselves, I get a bit of carried away, like a fire hydrant once again, and that’s really not the best way to spend these eight weeks, you know, to overwhelm you with information, and I think I have a little bit, because if you listen to any of the podcasts, and I think many of you have, we have had much more time for discussion. But when I got into the role, it’s kind of like, you know I couldn’t help myself (laughs). I just find the material so incredibly inspiring. And when I find something really good, I want to share it. I can’t help it. It’s an addiction I think, a problem and addiction. So there it is.

So let’s just have a silent session. We’ll do the chanting. There will be a silent session, no guided meditation. You’ve heard so much guidance you probably have it coming out your ears by now. So just choose your own meditation – no need to record this – let’s just have quiet meditation. I’ll chant, we can chant together, and then quiet (audible inhalation and exhalation).

Transcribed by Anne Garvey

Revised by Rafael Carlos Giusti

Final Edition by Cheri Langston

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