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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 by again clarifying that we need all 3 practices of Shamatha, Vipashyana and Mahamudra to reach even the first stage of the first yoga, and he also comments on the differences between the 5 paths within the context of the Mahayana and Mahamudra.

Lama then explains the practice of investigating the emptiness of the origin, location and destination of the mind. He also comes back to the importance of first achieving Shamatha. Once we do that then Vipashyana and even Mahamudra are not that far away. At the same time it’s very easy to get caught up in all kinds of other practices just for the sake of avoiding our own minds.

After the meditation we continue with the second yoga:

The Four Yogas of Mahamudra

  • Yoga of Freedom from Conceptual Elaborations
    • Rangjung Dorje (Great Instructions)
    • Dagpo Rinpoche
    • Saraha
    • Gyalwa Yang Gönpa
    • Small stage

Twelve Stages of the Four Yogas of Mahamudra

  • Yoga free of elaboration
    • Small stage

Meditation

Vipashyana: Origin, location and destination of mental events

Meditation starts at 30:52

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