Discovering the Magic of Dzokchen

Discovering the Magic of Dzokchen is a concise (23-page) PDF guide from Lama Alan Wallace on how to examine the nature of mind and reality in the context of Great Perfection practice. Access your free download below.

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What’s in the PDF Guide

KEY CONCEPTS EXPLORED

Rethinking Your Approach to Great Perfection practice

You’ll learn about the the difference between two key approaches to understanding the nature of emptiness, focusing on examining how the mind grasps at appearances. This section includes access to a powerful meditation (audio) guided by Lama Alan.

Integrating Dzokchen Meditation into your Life

You’ll discover how to incorporate the powerful Dzogchen view and meditation into your life, retaining focus in the midst of chaotic modern life.

Viewing Phenomena as Dream-Like

On the basis of fascinating evidence from the Western scientific tradition, you’ll develop the ability to view whatever appearances you’re confronted with in your day to day as dream-like in nature. You’ll also gain familiarity with contemplations and techniques for overcoming reifying the solid appearance of things.

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About the Author

B. Alan Wallace is president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. He trained for many years as a monk in Buddhist monasteries in India and Switzerland. He has taught Buddhist theory and practice in Europe and America since 1976 and has served as interpreter for numerous Tibetan scholars and contemplatives, including H. H. the Dalai Lama. After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied physics and the philosophy of science, he earned his MA and PhD in religious studies at Stanford University. He has edited, translated, authored, and contributed to more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture, and the interface between science and religion. Alan is also the founder of the Center for Contemplative Research (CCR), which now has retreat center locations in Crestone, Colorado, and in Castellina Marittima, Italy.

Know the Source

Content used in this remarkable PDF guide is drawn exclusively from Lama Alan’s Dzokchen, a recent Wisdom publication.

In this concise yet comprehensive practice manual, the great twentieth-century Tibetan Nyingma master Dudjom Rinpoche lays out a sequential path to spiritual freedom according to the teachings of the Great Perfection (Dzokchen): First, we refine our awareness by training in meditative quiescence (shamatha) and then proceed to the practices of insight meditation (vipashyana), by which our mind’s basic nature of luminosity and emptiness is revealed. Then, having recognized that the ordinary, deluded mind is actually without any intrinsic essence, we are primed to cut through this conditioned mind into unborn, timeless pristine awareness, which has never been contaminated by mental afflictions or other obscurations. Finally, we realize that our own awareness has never been other than the dharmakāya, the mind of a buddha, and perfect enlightenment is realized spontaneously and effortlessly. Beloved teacher and renowned scholar Lama Alan Wallace guides the reader through this remarkable text and shares insights gained over years of study, providing a line-by-line explanation interspersed with background teachings from revered Dzokchen scriptures written by Padmasambhava, Dudjom Lingpa, and others. Also included with the book purchase is a set of fifteen guided meditations given by Lama Alan, along with links to audio tracks of Lama Alan giving the instructions himself.