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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, 19 Jun 2019

Lama Alan begins the session by commenting again on Brad’s question and clarifying on the mapping between the text and the practices we’ve been doing.

Now that we’ve finished exploring different shamatha practices, we will now be focusing on vipashyana. Lama Alan again explains how vipashyana requires an element of inquiry or investigation, and bare attention is neither mindfulness nor vipashyana.

He quotes an explanation by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the 3 turnings of the wheel of Dharma. He also offers a commentary on a passage from the Pali Canon on the 4 applications of mindfulness.

After the meditation we move on to the second yoga and cover:

The Four Yogas of Mahamudra

  • Yoga of Freedom from Conceptual Elaborations
    • Karma Chagme

Core Meditations on the Path of Mahamudra

  • Vipashyana
    • Karma Chagmé (A Spacious Path to Freedom)
    • Nima Arkani-Hamed
    • Steven Weinberg
    • Richard Feynman
    • John Archibald Wheeler
    • Andre Linde
    • Thomas Hertog

Meditation

Vipashyana: phenomenological investigation based on the first turning of the wheel of Dharma.

Meditation starts at 36:38

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