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Transform Your Mind & Change Your Life Retreat - 7-Point Mind Training from Atisha (part 52)

B. Alan Wallace · 25 min · Vajrayana Institute via Internet Archive


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  • 2:52

    The stillness of your awareness, simply present, from this vantage point, from this stillness of awareness resting in its own place, the light of your awareness to the entire field of the body.

  • 4:44

    Breathe out, sustain that flow of mindfulness of the sensations of the breath. But as you do so, relax with every breath. Relax in the body, release the breath all the way through, and release any thoughts or memories, images that may have come to mind, and sustaining the flow of non-conveillance.

  • 10:23

    this is to enhance stability and focus it downwards to the sensations of the rise and fall of the abdomen. See that your breath continues

  • 14:21

    be as silent and as continuously engage the sensations of the breath as you can. See for yourself the extent to which counting the breath is helpful for stabilizing the mind

  • 20:30

    to the tactile sensation, the passage of the breath at the apertures of the nostril, passing over the sleep.

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· · · silence, 3 minutes

2:52 The stillness of your awareness, simply present, from Report an error in the passage at 2:52

3:21 this vantage point, from this stillness of awareness resting in its own place, Report an error in the passage at 3:21

3:28 the light of your awareness to the entire field of the body. Report an error in the passage at 3:28

3:37 Selectively focus on those sensations that correspond to the in and outflow of the breath. Report an error in the passage at 3:37

· · · silence, 1 minute

4:44 Breathe out, sustain that flow of mindfulness of the sensations of the breath. But as you do so, relax with every breath. Relax in the body, release the breath all the way through, and release any thoughts or memories, images that may have come to mind, Report an error in the passage at 4:44

5:06 and sustaining the flow of non-conveillance. And Report an error in the passage at 5:06

· · · silence, 5 minutes

10:23 this is to enhance stability and Report an error in the passage at 10:23

10:46 focus it downwards to the sensations of the rise and fall of the abdomen. Report an error in the passage at 10:46

11:07 See that your breath continues Report an error in the passage at 11:07

· · · silence, 1 minute

11:58 exhaling just enough effort to Report an error in the passage at 11:58

12:05 stabilize and Report an error in the passage at 12:05

· · · silence, 2 minutes

14:21 be as silent and as continuously engage the sensations of the breath as you can. Report an error in the passage at 14:21

14:45 See for yourself the extent to which counting the breath is helpful for stabilizing the mind Report an error in the passage at 14:45

· · · silence, 6 minutes

20:30 to the tactile sensation, the passage of the breath at the apertures of the nostril, Report an error in the passage at 20:30

20:58 passing over the sleep. Report an error in the passage at 20:58

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Talk by B. Alan Wallace. Original at Vajrayana Institute via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/retreatmindtraining. Licensed CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. Transcript generated automatically and may contain errors; the audio is the authoritative version.

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