91 Four Rivers Flowing Into One Resolve

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Fall 2014 Shamatha, Vipashyana, Dream Yoga

B. Alan Wallace

93 episodes

9 months ago

This eight-week retreat will focus on three of the six transitional processes, namely:

the Transitional Process of Living, with teachings on śamatha and vipaśyanā,
the Transitional Process of Dreaming, with teachings on dream yoga, and
the Transitional Process of Meditation with teachings on Dzogchen meditation.

All these teachings will be based on the text The Profound Dharma of The Natural Emergence of the Peaceful and Wrathful from Enlightened Awareness Stage of Completion Instructions on the Six Transitional Processes, an “earth terma” of teachings by Padmasambhava, revealed by Karma Lingpa in the fourteen century.

The English translation of this text has been published under the title Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava’s Teachings on the Six Bardos, with commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche and translated by B. Alan Wallace.

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This eight-week retreat will focus on three of the six transitional processes, namely:

the Transitional Process of Living, with teachings on śamatha and vipaśyanā,
the Transitional Process of Dreaming, with teachings on dream yoga, and
the Transitional Process of Meditation with teachings on Dzogchen meditation.

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91 Four Rivers Flowing Into One Resolve

Fall 2014 Shamatha, Vipashyana, Dream Yoga

11 years ago

91 Four Rivers Flowing Into One Resolve

On the penultimate stage to the cultivation of bodhicitta we return to the great resolve: I shall free all sentient beings. Alan points how that the deeper this promise sinks into you, the clearer it becomes that it only makes sense from the perspective of rigpa. Also, after having cultivated great compassion you are bound to go on to the other 3 greats - you no longer have a choice. Then the four are like four rivers coming together to a massive stream that will take you directly to bodhicitta. And once again it is important to realize that our perspective is that of rigpa, which is said to be one (in the sense that it’s the one truth) but at the same time infinite (because it manifests in every sentient being) - it’s neither singular nor plural. Alan then quotes Shantideva to inspire us for the meditation. After the meditation Alan mentions how there are two doors leading to the same path: either you cultivate relative bodhicitta and it will lead you to ultimate bodhicitta, or you can go the other way. Towards the end Alan wishes us a good day but then quickly comes back to correct himself. In the sound file the very beginning of his addition is missing, that is why it starts abruptly. Meditation starts at 17:47