In this selection from the Heart of the Great Perfection, Pema Tashi presents Düdjom Lingpa’s commentary on The Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra. This reading includes material covered by Alan Wallace in lesson 1.

In this video, Alan Wallace offers practical advice on cultivating the motivation best suited to pursuing the path of Dzogchen. We earn about the consummate mastery of Düdjom Lingpa, and how his direct transmission of The Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra from the Lake Born Vajra through pure visions, encapsulates the entirety of the Dzogchen path.

In this audio meditation, Alan Wallace guides us deeper into the practice of settling body, speech, and mind. Please find a comfortable position, and practice along with the guided meditation.

In this audio meditation, Alan Wallace guides us through the cultivation of our highest motivations and aspirations for practice. Please find a comfortable position, and practice along with the guided meditation.

In this first lesson, Lama Alan Wallace offers practical advice on cultivating the motivation best suited to pursuing the path of Dzogchen. We learn about the consummate mastery of Düdjom Lingpa, and how his direct transmission of The Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra from the Lake Born Vajra through pure visions, encapsulates the entirety of the Dzogchen path. Lama Alan makes clear how the practices unique to Dzogchen, trekchö and tögal, relate to each other, and to the achievement of shamatha. Though pith instructions, initial commentary on The Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra, and guided meditations, we set out to put this visionary quintessence of Dzogchen into practice.

In this selection from Stilling the Mind Alan Wallace offers commentary on the great Düdjom Lingpa’s Vajra Essence, which provides guidance in working with obstacles and pitfalls on the path of shamatha.

In this selection from Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up, Alan Wallace discusses the emptiness of phenomena, and how the perceived world is dependent on the mind and sense faculties. The reading ends with a meditation on emptiness from the Seven-point Mind Training by Geshe Chekawa.

In this lesson, Lama Alan Wallace takes us to the summit of the path, according to the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. From this view, we learn about the fusion of shamatha and vipashyana, how mental afflictions arise, and are ultimately empty of any inherent nature. Lama Alan also introduces the practice of nonmeditation, based on the visionary writing of Düdjom Lingpa in Buddhahood Without Meditation.

In this lesson Lama Alan Wallace clearly outlines the stages of dependent arising, according to Buddhist thought, in order to reveal how the subtle and conscious mind comes into being. Lama Alan then relates discussion on the arising of the mind and phenomena to discoveries from contemporary science, and the insights of quantum mechanics.

In this video, Alan Wallace discusses the importance of mindful intelligence and loving discernment within one’s practice. After watching please practice along with the guided audio meditation below.