Shamatha Retreat with Alan Wallace 2012 (part 41)

· · · silence, 1 minute

0:32 Settle your body in its natural state, your respiration in its natural rhythm, and for a short time calm the discursive mind with mindfulness of breathing. Report an error in the passage at 0:32 Highlight the passage at 0:32

· · · silence, 2 minutes

2:34 Eyes be at least partially open and cast your gaze downwards, but without focusing on any visual object, without meditating on anything at all. Report an error in the passage at 2:34 Highlight the passage at 2:34

2:54 Simply rest your awareness in its own natural clarity, its own natural cognizance, Report an error in the passage at 2:54 Highlight the passage at 2:54

· · · silence, 3 minutes

5:40 either setting your own rhythm or in conjunction with the rhythm of the respiration. Report an error in the passage at 5:40 Highlight the passage at 5:40

5:48 Withdraw your attention from all appearances. From the six domains of experience right into itself, into an unmediated experience of being aware, Report an error in the passage at 5:48 Highlight the passage at 5:48

6:00 without elaboration, without conceptualization. An Report an error in the passage at 6:00 Highlight the passage at 6:00

6:09 immediate knowing of knowing. Report an error in the passage at 6:09 Highlight the passage at 6:09

6:20 Release your awareness into space with no object, utterly relaxed, loose and free. Report an error in the passage at 6:20 Highlight the passage at 6:20

· · · silence, 5 minutes

11:53 And then as you invert your awareness, go yet a bit more deeply, Report an error in the passage at 11:53 Highlight the passage at 11:53

12:01 even when you're not doing anything. Do you have a sense of being someone in here who's observing some Report an error in the passage at 12:01 Highlight the passage at 12:01

12:16 noun, someone in here? On the subjective side, Report an error in the passage at 12:16 Highlight the passage at 12:16

12:26 observing everything else that is not me. As you invert your awareness, invert it right in upon that lived experience, that sense of being the subject, the observer. Report an error in the passage at 12:26 Highlight the passage at 12:26

12:41 And when you do so, simply see what you see, what comes to mind. Report an error in the passage at 12:41 Highlight the passage at 12:41

12:49 Inspect closely. Report an error in the passage at 12:49 Highlight the passage at 12:49

12:53 Release your awareness into space with no object. Report an error in the passage at 12:53 Highlight the passage at 12:53

· · · silence, 2 minutes

14:53 And if appearance do come to mind, images do come to mind, when you invert your awareness, you may ask yourself, is that image? Is that a subject? Is that the observer? Or is it simply one more appearance to awareness? Report an error in the passage at 14:53 Highlight the passage at 14:53

· · · silence, 7 minutes

21:40 Release the oscillation and let your awareness come to rest right in the center, neither out nor in, utterly at rest, Report an error in the passage at 21:40 Highlight the passage at 21:40

21:54 holding its own ground, resting in its own place. Report an error in the passage at 21:54 Highlight the passage at 21:54

22:04 Simply be aware of the sheer luminosity and the sheer cognizance of your own awareness. Report an error in the passage at 22:04 Highlight the passage at 22:04