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  • Watch Lesson 1b

    Alan Wallace offers commentary on the opening verses of The Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra, and discusses its understanding of the path from the vantage point of pristine awareness.

  • Watch Lesson 1a

    Alan Wallace gives us an overview of the course, the tradition of Düdjom Lingpa, and introduces the root text for the course, The Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra.

  • Lesson 8: Investigating the Nature of Appearances

    Lama Alan Wallace discusses Düdjom Lingpa’s teachings on the nature of appearances and awareness, and continues supplemental teachings on expanding our capacity for loving-kindness.

  • Expanding Loving-Kindness

    Alan Wallace continues teaching on loving-kindness and leads us in another guided meditation on the first of the four immeasurables, which we now expand outward to other people. After watching the video above, you may follow along with the recoding below.

  • Asaṅga’s Approach to Mindfulness of Breathing

    Alan Wallace introduces us to the great Indian master Asaṅga’s method of mindfulness of breathing. After watching the video above, you may follow along with the guided meditation below.

  • Loving-Kindness for Yourself

    In the the first of a series of short teachings on the four immeasurables, Alan Wallace explains how loving-kindness is an important foundation for developing bodhicitta. After watching the video above, you may follow along with the guided meditation below on cultivating loving-kindness for ourselves.

  • Loving-Kindness

    In this chapter from Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up, Alan Wallace teaches on the first of the four immeasurables.

  • Watch Lesson 7b

    Alan Wallace continues his commentary on Dorjé Drolö’s hūṃ song.

  • Watch Lesson 7a

    Alan Wallace introduces us to Dorjé Drolö’s pith instructions for Düdjom Lingpa. You may follow along as he reads from the root text starting on page 150.

  • Lesson 7: Dorjé Drolö’s Song of Pith Instruction

    In this lesson, Lama Alan Wallace guides us through the chanted song of pith instructions Düdjom Lingpa receives from an emanation of Padmasambhava, and also brings our practice back to the fundamentals of loving-kindness and variations of mindfulness of breathing.