Alan begins with a clarification of how the practice  of silence at a Mahayana retreat is different from that at a Sravakayana retreat.

The meditation is on cultivating the aspiration that we ourselves and others  be free of the suffering of change and the mental afflictions of craving and attachment that give rise to it. 

Meditation starts at 24:30

Alan begins with a clarification of how the practice of silence at a Mahayana retreat is different from that at a Sravakayana retreat. The meditation is on cultivating the aspiration that we ourselves and others be free of the suffering of change and the mental afflictions of craving and attachment that give rise to it. Meditation starts at 24:30

47 Freedom from the Suffering of Change and Its Causes

This eight-week retreat will focus on three of the six transitional processes, namely: 
<ul>
<li>the Transitional Process of Living, with teachings on śamatha and vipaśyanā, </li>
<li>the Transitional Process of Dreaming, with teachings on dream yoga, and </li>
<li>the Transitional Process of Meditation with teachings on Dzogchen meditation. </li>
</ul>
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. 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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