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  • Cultivating Bodhicitta

    In this teaching, Alan Wallace explores the culmination of developing the four greats: bodhicitta. After watching the video, you may spend ten to fifteen minutes contemplating the teachings if you wish.

  • The Nominal Reality of Outer, Inner, and Between

    In preparation for the meditation practice, Alan Wallace teaches on Düdjom Lingpa’s view of the mind and how it relates to Madhyamaka philosophy. After watching the video you may follow along with the guided meditation below.

  • Extraordinary Resolve, the Bridge to Bodhicitta

    In this supplementary teaching, Alan Wallace teaches on the next step beyond the four greats: extraordinary resolve, and its role leading us to bodhicitta. As there is no associated guided meditation, after watching please feel free to incorporate this into your practice by spending ten to fifteen minutes contemplating the teachings.

  • Lesson 4 Lecture Notes

    You may refer to this document for notes referenced in Alan Wallace’s lectures, particularly quotations from physicists and the Pāli Canon.

  • Watch Lesson 4c

    Alan Wallace continues discussing Longchenpa’s teachings, starting on page 17 of the root text.

  • Watch Lesson 4b

    We turn to commentary on the teachings of Longchenpa, Drimé Özer, on page 16 in the root text.

    Alan Wallace begins this lecture with a brief reference to the practice “Am “I” Findable Out There, In Here, or In Between,” which can be found in the Practice section below.

  • Watch Lesson 4a

    Alan Wallace discusses the Dzogchen understanding of space and highlights modern physicists understanding of it as well. You may follow along as he reads from the root text starting on page 15.

  • The Flow of Designation, Reification, and Permanence

    In this video Alan Wallace offers practical instruction on the teachings of emptiness to serve our formal and informal practice sessions. After watching the video above, you can listen to the guided meditation below.

  • Nonmeditation

    Alan Wallace offers discusses the notion of path in relationship to the sensibility and approach to nonmeditation. After watching the video above, you can listen to the guided meditation below.

  • Examining the Location, Origin, and Destination of Appearances

    Alan Wallace offers instruction on attending to appearances in the practices of shamatha and vipashyana. After watching the video above, you can listen to the guided meditation below.