In this video, Alan Wallace discusses impartiality, the final of the four immeasurables, as a means to introduce the practice of tonglen. After watching, please find a comfortable position, and practice along with the guided audio meditation below.

In this selection from Shantideva’s Guide to Awakening, Geshe Yeshe Tobden offers a clear commentary on the fifth chaper of the Bodhicaryāvatāra.

Below, enjoy a translation of the first few verses of the fifth chapter by Vesna Wallace and B. Alan Wallace (A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life, Snow Lion, 1997).

1. Those who wish to protect their practice should zealously guard the mind. The practice cannot be protected without guarding the unsteady mind. (more…)

In this video Alan Wallace introduces the practice of great impartiality, through integrating shamatha, and tonglen. After watching please find a comfortable position, and practice along with the guided audio meditation below.

In this video, Alan Wallace introduces a silent meditation on taking aspects of the mind as the path; offering the choice of attending to the stillness aspect of the mind, and the movement aspect of the mind, as if on a spectrum. After watching, please practice along with the silent audio meditation below.

In this meditation, Alan Wallace guides us in taking the mind as the path through the practice of single-pointed mindfulness. Please find a comfortable position, and practice along with the guided audio meditation below.

In this video Alan Wallace introduces practice on the meditative cultivation of mudita, or joy. After watching, please find a comfortable position and practice along with the guided audio meditation below.

In this audio meditation Alan Wallace guides us in the practice of awareness of awareness, and observing the movements of the mind from the perspective of the stillness of awareness. Please find a comfortable position, and practice along with the the guided audio meditation below.

In this video Alan Wallace discusses how to relate to nyams from a Dzogchen point of view, and continues his commentary on the root text starting from page 53.

In this video Alan Wallace the distinguishes the view of Sutrayana and Dzogchen, offers insights on the four yogas of the Mahamudra tradition, and continues his commentary on the root text from page 52.

In this video, Alan Wallace offers insights on taking the fruition as the path, and resumes his commentary on the root text starting from page 52.