In this video, Alan Wallace focuses on how we can determine that our practice is leading us onto the path, highlighting a few lines from Yangthang Rinpoche’s Synthesis of the View, Meditation, and Conduct that describe cutting through the reification of a knower that remains even after the attainment of shamatha. In the guided meditation below, we follow the outline of Yangthang Rinpoche’s lines probing the nature of the mind itself.

In this selection from The Attention Revolution, Alan Wallace gives a broad introduction to shamatha as a means for attentional development and covers the first of the nine stages, Directed Attention.

In this document you can find quotations, and source material for content Alan Wallace shares, and offers commentary on, throughout the lectures in this lesson.

Beginning his commentary on the Teachings of Vajradhara, Alan Wallace explores how this world comes into existence from the perspective of one who is awake. You may follow along as he reads from the root text starting on page 25.

After spending some time coming to understand how things don’t exist, in order to “keep our house in order” Alan Wallace turns now to how things do exist, primarily citing Tsongkhapa’s three criteria for determining conventional existence. You can refer to the Dalai Lama’s commentary on Tsongkhapa’s teachings here and here.

Alan Wallace departs from the root text to highlight quantum and Dzogchen views on worlds of crystallized space, demonstrating some striking parallels.

In this lesson, Lama Alan Wallace weaves together teachings on the 21st century’s understanding of the universe as understood by quantum physics, Tsongkhapa’s three criteria for establishing conventional existence, and Vajradhara’s awakened view of how the world comes into existence.

Please refer to this document for notes, and quotations referenced by Alan Wallace’s lectures during the lesson.

In this video, Alan Wallace dicusses the dynamic quality of the substrate, both in terms of appearances, and potentiality of subtle prana. After watching the video, please listen to the audio meditation below.

In this video, Alan Wallace offers guidance on the practice of settling body, speech, and mind in their natural state, and offers the transmission and commentary on pith instructions from Kyabje Yangthang Rinpoche. After watching the video, you can practice with the silent meditation below.