B. Alan Wallace, 09 Apr 2020 Transcript available
09 Apr 2020 Make the Best of This Human Birth Lama Alan begins by reading the next lines of the text, which refer to the initial instructions for mind training of the disciples –who maintain the samayas–, when encountering the entrance to the path. This pertains training in the four outer and seven inner preliminaries. Lama Alan talks about the four outer, four revolutions in outlook, these are questioning our preconceptions, habitual way of seeing the world we inhabit. He compares this…
B. Alan Wallace, 09 Apr 2020 Transcript available
Mediation on Rare and Precious Human Rebirth
B. Alan Wallace, 10 Apr 2020 Transcript available
Lama Alan said he won’t be surprised if he doesn’t include any new information for you in this session. While this topic of death and impermanence may be familiar to you, it often does not change our view of reality. That is it does not sink in to our view, meditation and action. We know that all conditioned phenomena are conditioned and arise from causes and conditions such as from a plant to the billion-fold galaxies. These things we know, but it is an inconvenient truth that we don’t want to…
B. Alan Wallace, 10 Apr 2020 Transcript available
10 Apr 2020 Death and Impermanence
B. Alan Wallace, 12 Apr 2020 Transcript available
12 Apr 2020 Lama Alan introduces the third of the four revolutions in outlook/inlook/perspective/orientation, which serve to set the direction in our pursuit for happiness. This third one is actually one of the four marks of existence: “All experiences that are contaminated by mental afflictions are unsatisfying.” Lama Alan reflects on how life seems to ‘smile’ to some, while the reality of suffering seems ‘more true’ to some others; those who go through war, poverty, hunger, i.e., blata…
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12 Apr 2020 Transforming the Reality of Suffering
B. Alan Wallace, 13 Apr 2020 Transcript available
13 Apr 2020 Lama Alan begins with a brief clarification of what he meant by “revolution” in the context of the “Four Revolutions in Outlook/Perspective.” Unlike some of the violent revolutions that have taken place throughout history, the revolution he has in mind aligns more with the revolutions in humanity’s perspective on reality that took place after the findings of Galileo, Darwin, and others. Lama Alan then turns to the 4th of these revolutions, which concerns the truth of actions…
B. Alan Wallace, 13 Apr 2020 Transcript available
13 Apr 2020 Awareness of Mental Afflictions and Tonglen
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