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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, 16 Jun 2019

Lama Alan begins by mentioning the next method we’ll be practicing: a Dzogchen approach to mindfulness of breathing. He also comes back to the analogy of the lucid dream and how it relates to Mahamudra and Dzogchen.

After the meditation we go back to “The Four Yogas of Mahamudra”:

  • Yoga of Single-pointedness
    • Karma Chagme
      • Point d)
      • Point e)

Then we move on to “Core Meditations on the Path of Mahamudra” and cover:

  • The five dhyāna factors remove the five obscurations
  • Water similes of the five obscurations that prevent one from seeing the reflection of one’s face in a pool of water (Sangarava-sutta, AN, III 230)
  • So long as these five obscurations are not abandoned one considers oneself as indebted, sick, in bonds, enslaved, and lost in a desert track. (Sāmaññaphala Sutta in Dīgha Nikāya I 74)

Meditation

Shamatha: Dzogchen approach to mindfulness of breathing

Meditation starts at 12:04

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