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  • Watch Lesson 2b

    In this video, Alan Wallace guides us through the root text starting on page 51, continuing his commentary on the text’s discussion as to how individuals with specific faculties may enter the path, and offers practical insights from which to approach the practice of shamatha.

  • Watch Lesson 2a

     

    In this video, Alan Wallace guides us through the root text starting on page 49, offering commentary on the importance of  the view, taking the impure mind onto the path, and how individuals with specific faculties may enter the path.

  • Lesson 2: Taking the Mind and Essence onto the Path

    In this lesson, Lama Alan Wallace offers practical commentary on the root text for the course, The Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra, to reveal how practitioners of specific faculties enter the path, and how we can take the mind, both the impure mind, and the essence of mind, onto the path. Lama Alan also guides us through the practice of resting the mind in space, and learning to observe the movements of mind within stillness.

  • Lesson 5: The Pure Vision of Longchenpa

    Lama Alan Wallace continues his commentary on the extraordinary pure vision teachings of Longchenpa and offers pith instructions from the Lake-Born Vajra on bringing the impure mind onto the path.

  • Settling the Mind in its Natural State

    In the video above, Alan Wallace provides a clear description of shamatha that we can use as a roadmap for our spiritual practice. After watching the teaching, you may follow along with the guided meditation below.

  • The Inseparability of Space and Awareness

    Alan Wallace guides us through a practice in which we can come to experience the inseparability of space and awareness. After watching the video teaching above, you may follow along with the meditation below.

  • More Pith Instructions for Bringing the Impure Mind onto the Path

    Alan Wallace continues his teaching on and transmission of the Lake-Born Vajra’s pith instructions.

  • Pith Instructions for Bringing the Impure Mind onto the Path

    Alan Wallace offers teachings and transmission of the Lake-Born Vajra’s pith instructions for bringing the impure mind onto the path.

  • Watch Lesson 5b

    Alan Wallace speaks broadly on themes covered by Longchenpa, drawing on sources as diverse as Milarepa and Pythagoras.

  • Watch Lesson 5a

    Alan Wallace continues his commentary on the extraordinary teachings of Longchenpa. You may follow along as he reads from the root text beginning on page 18.