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  • Cultivating Great Compassion

    Alan Wallace offers us background on the foundational motivations of the various vehicles of Buddhadharma, so as to approach the the possibility of Great Compassion on the Mahayana and Vajrayana path. After watching the video above, you can listen to the guided meditation on cutting through the designating mind, to approach Great Compassion for all sentient beings.

  • Equalizing Self and Others

    Alan Wallace offers us insights into the role and significance of practice on the four immeasurables. After watching the video above, you can listen to the guided meditation for cultivating immeasurable equanimity below.

  • Cultivating a Spirit of Awakening

    In this chapter from Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground UpAlan Wallace introduces the primary motivation for the spiritual path.

  • Watch Lesson 2b

    In this video Alan Wallace contextualizes the practices of shamatha, vipashyana, and trekchö against popular discourses about the mind, emphasizing the critical importance of deconstructing delusional self-centeredness for the sake of all sentient beings.

  • Watch Lesson 2a

    In this video, Alan Wallace offers of practical insights through which to approach practice, guides us through the root text to reveal how conceptual designation gives rise to the world of subject and object, ultimately to reveal the emptiness of all identity and phenomena. You can follow along as he reads from the root text, starting from page 11.

  • Lesson 2: The Heart of the Path: Discerning Emptiness, and Approaching Great Compassion

    In this lesson, Lama Alan Wallace offers commentary on the root text for the course Buddhahood Without Meditation, to explore foundational themes of emptiness, and great compassion.

  • The Unfindability of “I” in Appearances

    Alan Wallace leads us in a guided meditation related to Avalokiteshvara’s teachings in our root text, Buddhahood Without Meditation, in which we try to find the “I” in appearances.

    This meditation was originally recorded in association with the third video in the Watch section above.

  • Equanimity

    In the video above, Alan Wallace teaches on the fourth of the four immeasurables: equanimity. Following this, you may listen to the guided mediation below on cultivating equanimity beginning with our own afflicted behavior.

  • Empathetic Joy

    Alan Wallace guides us in a teaching and practice related to the third of the four immeasurables: empathetic joy. After watching the video above, you may follow along with the guided meditation below.

  • Watch Lesson 1a

    Alan Wallace introduces us to Buddhahood Without Meditation. You can follow along as he reads from the root text (available as a PDF on the course homepage and also under the “Read” section below) starting on page 9.