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  • Continue to Retreat Through Death

    In the following video Alan Wallace guides us through the dying process, from the vantage point of shamatha practice, as a retreat from the ground of samsara, to the clear light of death. After watching, please follow along with the guided meditation below. 

  • Shamatha Stages Seven and Eight

    In the following video, Alan Wallace offers instruction and advice pertaining to practice and experience in the seventh and eigth stage of shamatha. After watching, please follow along with the guided meditation below.

  • Can I Find My Mind

    In the following video, Alan Wallace offers introduction to Lerab Lingpa’s instructions for resting in awareness, so that we can examine, and attempt to locate, that which stands between us, and the recognition of our own nature as pristine awareness: the mind. After watching, please follow along with the guided meditation below.

  • Shamatha Stages Five and Six

    In this video Alan Wallace offers practical instruction on the distinctions between the fourth and fifth stages of shamatha, and the transition to the sixth stage of shamatha. After watching the video, please follow along with the guided meditation below. 

  • Watch Lesson 9c

    In the following video Alan Wallace provides commentary on the teachings of the Lake Born Vajra, and Ekajati to Düdjom Lingpa, offering further insight on Vajrayana practice from a Dzogchen point of view.

  • Watch Lesson 9a

    In this video Alan Wallace returns to the instructions from Manjushri in the root text, guiding us through an explanation for the final three kayas, the buddhafields, buddhas, and their consorts.

  • Lesson 9: Approaching the Summit: Accomplishing the Nine Stages, the Vajra Vehicle, and the Clear Light of Death

    In this lesson, Lama Alan Wallace guides us from the fourth through the ninth stage of shamatha practice, and follows the root text closely, offering commentary on the teachings of Manjushri, as well as those of the Lake Born Vajra and Ekajati, to Düdjom Lingpa. Here, we are presented with Düdjom Lingpa’s profound understanding of the rich and diverse elements of the Vajrayana and how practices explored throughout the course might serve us at the time of death.

  • Essence of Clear Meaning

    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 3.

  • Stilling the Mind

    In this selection from Stilling the Mind, Alan Wallace offers commentary on another text by Düdjom Lingpa, The Vajra Essence, which provides clear guidance on taking the impure mind as the path.

  • Subjective Appearances and the Space of the Mind

    In this video, Alan Wallace introduces the practice of taking the impure mind as the path in moving from the third to the fourth type of mindfulness.