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The 4 Yogas of Mahamudra 2019 Retreat

B. Alan Wallace
14 Jun 2019 – 21 Jun 2019
Shambhala Mountain Center

This retreat will focus on the four yogas of Mahāmudrā as explained in Karma Chagme Rinpoche’s Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahāmudrā and Atiyoga, for which the main body of his text has been translated under the titles A Spacious Path to Freedom and Naked Awareness. These four yogas constitute a complete path to achieving the perfect enlightenment of a buddha in one lifetime by providing practical methods for fully realizing the luminous and empty nature of consciousness itself, which is our own buddha-nature. Oral commentaries on these four yogas will be complemented with guided meditations on Śamatha, Vipaśyanā, and Mahāmudrā, also based of Karma Chagme Rinpoche’s classic text.

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B. Alan Wallace, 18 Jun 2019

Today we will be focusing on the practice of shamatha without a sign, which takes the least effort, but also takes a lot of training to give so little effort.

Lama Alan also comments further on the difference between realizing emptiness and identifying pristine awareness by way of the analogy of a lucid dream.

Lama then comes back to the greater path of Mahamudra and Dzogchen and explains how this practice fits in, including some references to Yangthang Rinpoche’s teachings.

After the meditation we go back to the texts:

Core Meditations on the Path of Mahamudra

  • Kasiṇa Sutta, Aṅguttara Nikāya 10.25
  • Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava’s Teachings on the Six Bardos, revealed by Karma Lingpa, 1326–1386)

The Path of Shamatha

  • 7 Fully pacified attention
  • Subtle laxity
  • Subtle excitation

The Four Yogas of Mahāmudrā

  • Yoga of Single-pointedness
    • Medium stage
      • Rangjung Dorjé’s Great Instructions

Twelve Stages of the Four Yogas of Mahamudra

  • Yoga of single-pointedness
    • Medium stage

Meditation

Shamatha: Shamatha without a sign, resting in the sheer luminosity and cognizance of awareness

Meditation starts at 24:44

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