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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, 15 Jun 2019

We start with a preamble to the next meditation, with more comments from Lama Alan on the practice of mindfulness of breathing. We’ll be covering 3 different interpretations of the Buddha’s teachings on this practice.

After the meditation we start going over the “The Four Yogas of Mahamudra” text, beginning with the first yoga: The Yoga of Single-pointedness (Rangjung Dorje’s Great Instructions). Lama comments on the union of shamatha and vipashyana, and how this is the essence of buddhist meditation.

We then move on to the “Core Meditations on the Path of Mahamudra”:

  • Śamatha
    • Mindfulness of breathing
      • The Primary Tantra of Manjushri
      • The Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Ten Thousand Stanzas
      • The Sutra of the Ten Wheels of Ksitigarbha

Meditation

Shamatha: Mindfulness of breathing based on Asanga’s method

Meditation starts at 6:09

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