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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 starts by answering the question “Why do we suffer?”, from the perspective of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. He then raises the question: “What’s preventing us from realizing Rigpa, which is the equivalent of knowing who we are?” and comments on our own everyday experience as sentient beings.

Lama then presents the practice for this session, and comments on the 6 “theaters” of our own mind.

After the meditation Lama Alan explores the concept of qualia and the different ways in which people try to explain them.

We then continue with “The Four Yogas of Mahamudra”:

  • Small stage of Yoga of Single-pointedness

Meditation

Shamatha: The Buddha’s pith instructions to Bahiya

Meditation starts at 17:01

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