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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, 20 Jun 2019

For this session we go right into the texts:

Core Meditations on the Path of Mahamudra

  • Identifying Primordial Consciousness

Lama Alan covers the entire section and offers his commentary to the passages therein. He comments on the 3 types of wisdom (hearing, reflection and meditation) and again stresses the importance of shamatha in order to fully gain the wisdom of meditation.

He also gives a quick overview of the 3 main points of the third turning of the wheel of Dharma:

  • Dharmakaya permeates all phenomena and therefore the minds of all sentient beings.
  • Your stream of consciousness and dharmakaya are not really separate.
  • Every sentient being has the potential to achieve perfect awakening.

After the meditation we go back to the texts:

The Four Yogas of Mahamudra

  • Yoga of One Taste
    • Great stage

Meditation

Non-meditation: Padmasambhava’s pith instructions from Natural Liberation

Meditation starts at 28:52

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