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Trechos de gravações em palestras de Alan Wallace.Bruce Alan Wallace, nasceu em Pasadena na Califórnia em 1950, é professor, escritor e tradutor de sua tradição de Budismo Tibetano (Vajrayana).Wallace nasceu em uma família cristã e seu pai era um teólogo batista. Com 18 anos começou a estudar ecologia e filosofia na Universidade da Califónia.Em 1971 interrompeu seus estudos universitários, e mudou-se para Dharamsala, na Índia, para estudar budismo tibetano, medicina e linguagem. Ele foi ordenado por Sua Santidade Dalai Lama dois anos depois e, ao longo de quatorze anos como monge, estudou e traduziu para muitos os maiores lamas da geração. Em 1984, ele retomou sua educação ocidental no Amherst College, onde estudou física e filosofia da ciência. Ele então aplicou essa experiência em sua pesquisa de doutorado em Stanford sobre a conexão entre o budismo e a ciência e a filosofia ocidentais, com foco no cultivo contemplativo da atenção, atenção plena e introspecção.Desde 1987, ele tem sido um tradutor frequente e colaborador de reuniões entre o Dalai Lama e cientistas e filósofos proeminentes, e escreveu e traduziu mais de 40 livros. Junto com seu trabalho acadêmico, Wallace é considerado internacionalmente como um dos mais proeminentes professores de meditação budista e guias de retiros do nosso tempo.Alan Wallace é o fundador e presidente do Santa Barbara Institute, na Califórnia, e é o responsável por desenvolver e integrar a prática contemplativa no programa Cultivating Emotional Balance.Desde 2010, Wallace tem liderado uma série de retiros de 8 semanas para treinar alunos nas práticas meditativas de Shamatha, Quatro Incomensuráveis, Vipashyana e Dzogchen.

Bruce Alan Wallace, nasceu em Pasadena na Califórnia em 1950, é professor, escritor e tradutor de sua tradição de Budismo Tibetano (Vajrayana). Wallace nasceu em uma família cristã e seu pai era um teólogo batista. Com 18 anos começou a estudar ecologia e filosofia na Universidade da Califónia. Em 1971 interrompeu seus estudos universitários, e mudou-se para Dharamsala, na Índia, para estudar budismo tibetano, medicina e linguagem. Ele foi ordenado por Sua Santidade Dalai Lama dois anos depois e, ao longo de quatorze anos como monge, estudou e traduziu para muitos os maiores lamas da geração. Em 1984, ele retomou sua educação ocidental no Amherst College, onde estudou física e filosofia da ciência. Ele então aplicou essa experiência em sua pesquisa de doutorado em Stanford sobre a conexão entre o budismo e a ciência e a filosofia ocidentais, com foco no cultivo contemplativo da atenção, atenção plena e introspecção. Desde 1987, ele tem sido um tradutor frequente e colaborador de reuniões entre o Dalai Lama e cientistas e filósofos proeminentes, e escreveu e traduziu mais de 40 livros. Junto com seu trabalho acadêmico, Wallace é considerado internacionalmente como um dos mais proeminentes professores de meditação budista e guias de retiros do nosso tempo. Alan Wallace é o fundador e presidente do Santa Barbara Institute, na Califórnia, e é o responsável por desenvolver e integrar a prática contemplativa no programa Cultivating Emotional Balance. Desde 2010, Wallace tem liderado uma série de retiros de 8 semanas para treinar alunos nas práticas meditativas de Shamatha, Quatro Incomensuráveis, Vipashyana e Dzogchen.

In this episode of The Samadhi Podcast, David is joined for a fascinating conversation with his teacher, B. Alan Wallace. One of the world's leading scholars, writers, and teachers of Tibetan Buddhism and its relation to science, Lama Alan was ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He has written and translated more than 40 books and has been a leading voice in the dialogues and research between Buddhists and scientists. He is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and the Centers for Contemplative Research. In this conversation, Lama Alan very kindly offers us his thoughts on the nature and potentials of consciousness, the importance of shamatha and contemplative inquiry, and his vision for the Centers for Contemplative Research. This fascinating conversation we're sure will be of benefit to many.

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with B. Alan Wallace, author, scholar, president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, and Founder, President, and Director of Contemplative Training at the Center for Contemplative Research. Alan has also edited, translated, written, and contributed to more […] The post Alan Wallace: Solitude and Resilience (#118) appeared first on The Wisdom Experience.

B. Alan Wallace joins Raghu to reconcile science and spirituality within the context of Tibetan Buddhism's Great Perfection.B. Alan Wallace PhD is a frequent translator and contributor to meetings between the Dalai Lama and prominent scientists and philosophers, and he has written and translated more than 40 books, including Minding Closely: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness. He is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and of the Centers for Contemplative Research in Castellina Marittima in Tuscany and in Crestone, Colorado. For more info, please visit AlanWallace.orgPrivacy Policy and California Privacy Notice.

B. Alan Wallace is a highly respected meditation teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and is a leading voice in discussions on the relationship between science and Buddhist philosophy. In 1971, he moved to India to study Tibetan Buddhism, medicine and language. In India he was ordained by the Dalai Lama and spent fourteen years as a monk where he studied with and translated for several highly respected lamas. In 1984 he studied physics at Amherst College and went on to gain a PhD from Stanford on the interface between Buddhism and Western science. Since 1987 he has been a frequent translator and contributor to meetings between the Dalai Lama and prominent scientists, and he has written and translated more than 40 books. He is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and of the Center for Contemplative Research in Crestone, Colorado. Today we speak about the contemplative approach to studying the mind as well as the Dzogchen teachings on the nature of consciousness of Tibetean Buddhism that have been very important for both of us.

Dr. Alan Wallace is one of our leading voices exploring the interface between modern science, meditation, Buddhism and spirituality and Tibetan medicine. He is the founding director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies that has a mission to apply rigorous scientific methodology and inquiry into contemplative practices, and teaches and lectures worldwide. While studying at the University of Gottingen in Germany, Alan left for India and was ordained by the Dalai Lama as a monk of 14 years. He holds degrees in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College and a doctorate in religious studies at Stanford University. He later taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara for several years.  For the past 33 years, Alan has been a frequent translator and contributor for meetings between the Dalai Lama and world renowned scientists. He has written and translated over 40 books dealing with the science of mind and consciousness, Western scientific philosophy, lucid dreaming and many commentaries and translations of Tibetan Buddhist texts.  Some of his research on meditation has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Among some of this noteworthy publications are "Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism and Christianity," "Fathoming the Mind: Inquiry and Insight in the Vajra Essence" and "Dreaming Yourself Awake."  His personal website is AlanWallace.org and the Institute for Consciousness Studies is SBInstitute.com

Daniel Cunha é graduado em jornalismo e professor formado pelo programa CEB (Cultivating Emotional Balance do Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness). Trabalha desde 2010 publicando em veículos especializados na área da saúde e medicina integrativa. É um dos produtores do podcast Coemergência. O diagnóstico que ele recebeu de uma doença grave foi um divisor de águas de uma vida "automática" para uma vida com mais consciência. Com a surpresa de um sofrimento inesperado, ele se viu na busca de novos caminhos informados por novos paradigmas na saúde que reconhecem o lugar das emoções na sustentação do bem estar humano. Ele descobriu a supremacia da mente no que se refere à saúde ao perceber que que a nossa visão de mundo se torna o próprio mundo que se apresenta a nós. Em uma multiplicidade de condições e confluência de causalidades, ele vêm encontrando a possibilidade de uma vida com mais liberdade, autenticidade e saúde. A história do Dani é uma excelente imagem do caminho de iniciação do ser humano na vida. Ela mostra como dores e traumas suprimidos geram toxicidade mental e emocional que explode em sintomas físicos ou psíquicos que, por sua vez, nos convidam a um redirecionamento de rotas e ajustes de conduta com o fim de nos levar a uma expressão mais autêntica e espontânea de nós mesmos. Nós também conversamos sobre salutogênese, saúde como propriedade emergente transescalar, o princípio da complementaridade, a relação entre trauma e as condições para a cura, surpresas indesejadas como ativadoras de um caminho de revelação e muitas outras coisas. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podcast-do-idr/message

Know more on The Contemplative Path Through the Crisis HEREWatch all talks from this series hereAlan Wallace is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and the motivating force behind the development of the Center for Contemplative Research in Tuscany, Italy.Eva Natanya is a scholar of Christian systematic theology and Tibetan Buddhism, with long-term experience in interreligious dialogue worldwide.Laurence Freeman OSB is a Benedictine monk of the Olivetan Congregation and Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation and of Bonnevaux, its international center in France.

Know more on The Contemplative Path Through the Crisis HEREWatch all talks from this series hereAlan Wallace is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and the motivating force behind the development of the Center for Contemplative Research in Tuscany, Italy.Eva Natanya is a scholar of Christian systematic theology and Tibetan Buddhism, with long-term experience in interreligious dialogue worldwide.Laurence Freeman OSB is a Benedictine monk of the Olivetan Congregation and Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation and of Bonnevaux, its international center in France. 

Who shows up on your menstrual cycle? Roxanne talks about paying attention to the parts of self that come up as a window to our depths, the marginalized parts of self, and our under-worldly soul. Roxanne Partridge, of Embody Period, brings Menstruality - Sexuality Embodiment “From the Depths Up & Out”. She invokes the goddess and wild self in women through luscious words, provocative and artistic expression, imagery, and the depths and darkness. Roxanne supports women in connecting back to the source of themselves and awakening their vital and essential selves, sexuality, highlighting the magic of all stages of a woman's menstrual cycle, and sharing their stories as they are. Roxanne soulfully shares about: Inner Social Justice: befriending the marginalized parts of self that don't have representation in day to day life What happens as marginalized parts of ourselves meet the waking life versions of ourselves? The painful story that created the Menstrual Backdrop to her life and mission Space and creating space, making space, living in space, taking up space… space poetry Deconstructing the pathologization and silencing of women's cyclicity and the reduction of the moon cycle to “hormones” and reclaiming the beautiful and magical context of women's lives Death and Rebirth: the potential of every cycle The sensuality of bleeding Who shows up when you are bleeding or at different parts of your cycle? How do you carry the gift of renewal and imagine it forward into your life? How Soul is revealing Itself to you through your embodied experience Dr. Roxanne Partridge, CHt is known for inspiring and guiding others into embodying their unique, sustainable, fullness. Women, menstruators, and individuals seeking a safe, healing, and inclusive space to explore menstruality, sexuality, and embodied identity, are empowered through Roxanne's in-depth and creative approach. In her private practice and workshops, as well as in her writing and speaking engagements, she is an advocate for equal rights to imagination for images of female embodied experience. As a healer-scholar-activist, Roxanne has lectured and facilitated workshops at conferences for the Society of Menstrual Cycle Research, Seeing Red, Jungian Society of Scholarly Studies, International Association for Jungian Psychology, and the International Association for Analytical Psychology. Roxanne received her Ph.D. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. Informed by feminist Post-Jungian, liberational, archetypal, and eco-psychological theory and practices, Depth Psychology is inherently holistic. Depth Psychology attends to the nuances of experience in the context of daily life, cultural and familial backgrounds, and manifestations of the unconscious, such as dreams. Importantly, this paradigm sees troublesome emotional and behavioral symptoms, suffering, and questions of identity as invitations into a deeper and wider understanding of personal purpose, potential, healing, transformation, and embodied autonomy. Roxanne received her Clinical Hypnotherapy certification from the Santa Barbara Institute of Hypnotherapy and trained with revolutionary sex therapist Gina Ogden in her medicine wheel method of relational sexuality. Roxanne's background in holistic therapies and the arts forms a creative container for deep and catalytic work. Additionally to this episode Roxanne also provides an experiential which is EP100a or available on CandiceWu.com/roxanne.   Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode

n this dialogue Dr Wallace explores the themes of enlightenment and salvation and responds to questions such as: Are salvation and enlightenment the same? Is grace at work in the individual journey? At what levels do (or can) different traditions achieve sameness? Is the origin of grace within or without yourself, and where is the demarcation? Does Christianity treat God as an emotional projection? Alan Wallace is a prominent voice in the emerging discussion between contemporary Buddhist thinkers and scientists who question the materialist presumptions of their 20th-century paradigms. He left his college studies in 1971 and moved to Dharamsala, India, to study Tibetan Buddhism, medicine and language. He was ordained by H.H. the Dalai Lama, and over fourteen years as a monk he studied with and translated for several of this generation’s greatest lamas. He is founder of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. Music Credits: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions

Join Andrew and the distinguished scholar-practitioner B. Alan Wallace for a truly remarkable conversation. Dr. Wallace is renowned for his incisive clarity and rigorous intellect, and this is fully evident as he cascades over a tremendous amount of material. The discussion begins with a deep dive into the central meditations of shamatha and vipashyana, and how both of these practices are integral to lucid dreaming. Alan goes so far as to say that dream yoga is the practice of vipashyana, and further situates dream yoga within the Madhyamaka (Middle Way School) and Dzogchen. The discussion then addresses the key question: what does it mean to say reality is a dream? In answering this, Dr. Wallace levels a strong attack against materialism, and the perverted science that supports this wrong view. Insights from psychology, philosophy of mind, physics, cosmology, and many schools of Buddhism are delivered with high-velocity and humor (offering neologisms like cognoscopy – “to scope the mind”), illuminating vast swaths of terrain. Alan speaks of the importance of “authentic Buddhism,” the need to honor tradition, and criticizes the popular but misguided new school of “Secular Buddhism.” Because of Alan's encyclopedic knowledge, this interview lets him loose, with Andrew allowing him the space to run free. The result is an absolute feast of wisdom, supported by a lifetime of extensive scholarship and deep spiritual practice.--Alan Wallace is a prominent voice in the emerging discussion between contemporary Buddhist thinkers and scientists who question the materialist presumptions of their 20th-century paradigms. He left his college studies in 1971 and moved to Dharamsala, India to study Tibetan Buddhism, medicine and language. He was ordained by H.H. the Dalai Lama, and over fourteen years as a monk he studied with and translated for several of the generation's greatest lamas. In 1984 he resumed his Western education at Amherst College where he studied physics and the philosophy of science. He then applied that background to his PhD research at Stanford on the interface between Buddhism and Western science and philosophy. Since 1987 he has been a frequent translator and contributor to meetings between the Dalai Lama and prominent scientists, and he has written and translated more than 40 books. Along with his scholarly work, Alan is regarded as one of the West's preeminent meditation teachers and retreat guides. He is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and is the motivating force behind the develop of the Center for Contemplative Research in Tuscany, Italy.

This is a 30 minute preview. To listen to the full interview - and get all of our premium content - join Night Club: Lucid Dreaming & Dream Yoga Community! For the full interview: ⭐ https://nightclub.andrewholecek.com/interviews/b-alan-wallace/ Join Andrew and the distinguished scholar-practitioner B. Alan Wallace for a truly remarkable conversation. Dr. Wallace is renowned for his incisive clarity and rigorous intellect, and this is fully evident as he cascades over a tremendous amount of material. The discussion begins with a deep dive into the central meditations of shamatha and vipashyana, and how both of these practices are integral to lucid dreaming. Alan goes so far as to say that dream yoga is the practice of vipashyana, and further situates dream yoga within the Madhyamaka (Middle Way School) and Dzogchen. The discussion then addresses the key question: what does it mean to say reality is a dream? In answering this, Dr. Wallace levels a strong attack against materialism, and the perverted science that supports this wrong view. Insights from psychology, philosophy of mind, physics, cosmology, and many schools of Buddhism are delivered with high-velocity and humor (offering neologisms like cognoscopy – “to scope the mind”), illuminating vast swaths of terrain. Alan speaks of the importance of “authentic Buddhism,” the need to honor tradition, and criticizes the popular but misguided new school of “Secular Buddhism.” Because of Alan's encyclopedic knowledge, this interview lets him loose, with Andrew allowing him the space to run free. The result is an absolute feast of wisdom, supported by a lifetime of extensive scholarship and deep spiritual practice. -- Alan Wallace is a prominent voice in the emerging discussion between contemporary Buddhist thinkers and scientists who question the materialist presumptions of their 20th-century paradigms. He left his college studies in 1971 and moved to Dharamsala, India to study Tibetan Buddhism, medicine and language. He was ordained by H.H. the Dalai Lama, and over fourteen years as a monk he studied with and translated for several of the generation's greatest lamas. In 1984 he resumed his Western education at Amherst College where he studied physics and the philosophy of science. He then applied that background to his PhD research at Stanford on the interface between Buddhism and Western science and philosophy. Since 1987 he has been a frequent translator and contributor to meetings between the Dalai Lama and prominent scientists, and he has written and translated more than 40 books. Along with his scholarly work, Alan is regarded as one of the West's preeminent meditation teachers and retreat guides. He is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and is the motivating force behind the develop of the Center for Contemplative Research in Tuscany, Italy.

B. Alan Wallace joins to us to compare and contrast two fantastic dream practices. One comes from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, going all the way back to India, with the yogi Naropa. This practice, called Dream Yoga, is a type of insight practice which utilizes the dream state in order to wake up. The other practice, called Lucid Dreaming, comes out of the pioneering research of Dr. Stephen LaBerge. Lucid dreaming breaks down the same goals that Dream Yoga aspires to, but into smaller and more attainable goals. It is also firmly grounded in the scientific method. Listen in to hear Dr. Wallace, who is authorized to teach both of these methods, discuss the similarities and differences in these two different approaches. Episode Links: The Lucidity Institute ( http://www.lucidity.com ) Train your Mind, Change your Brain ( http://bit.ly/1RYFWH ) Building the Dream Body ( http://www.wie.org/j39/zane.asp ) Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies ( http://www.sbinstitute.com )

In this final session, Alan brings us back to the first immeasurable of loving-kindness with a guided meditation which focuses on loving-kindness first for oneself, and then spreading out to all begins. Thank you for listening to these podcasts. If you have found them of value, please consider donating to the Santa Barbara Institute.

Alan Wallace begins today's teaching with a 40-minute dharma talk that could be titled, "Retreat and Expedition Approaches to Freedom from Blatant Suffering." In this engaging talk, Alan surveys the history of these approaches and explores the mechanisms and effects of shamatha and vipassana. He then guides a meditation on compassion, first wishing ourselves freedom from blatant suffering, then on to others, working both spatially and allowing others to simply appear, "invite themselves in," to our meditation. The guided meditation begins at 41:00 in the recording. He answers two questions from the group, the first of which refers to the notes available on the Santa Barbara Institute's website at http://sbinstitute.com/PodcastNotes/PodcastNotes.html and is titled "Three New Methods." 1. Could you explain the following excerpt from Buddhaghosa's commentary on Sati, especially the underlined parts. "Its characteristic is not floating; its property is not losing; its manifestation is guarding or the state of being face to face with an object; its basis is strong noting or the close applications of mindfulness of the body and so on. It should be seen as like a post due to its state of being set in the object, and as like a gatekeeper because it guards the gate of the eye and so on." 2. What do you mean (in Chapter 4 of Attention Revolution) by saying that, "[Through the achievement or the power of mindfulness at stage 4] the practice comes into its own." Could you use a synonym for that?

In this short and sweet sunday bonus, we synthesized the three main methods of Shamatha into one practice. There is an extremely short introduction and then the practice.A great way to combine these different meditative variations!Enjoy as we did!I would also like to let you know that after receiving several emails offering donations, I added some links to donate to the Santa Barbara Institute for Conciousness Studies to help fund future podcasts. For those viewing this on the web click on the big arrow to see the subsite, and for those viewing this in iTunes go here: http://bit.ly/bnxSR5All of the profits will go to ensure that they can keep running podcasts in the future when I am not around. So don't worry, I don't want to make any money from you (and neither do they!)The photo is of the very photogenic Sombrero Galaxy. That glow in the middle is composed of billions of stars.Credit:Image Credit: NASA/Hubble Heritage Team

This lovely afternoon we went back to the practice of Loving Kindness, using the phrase from T.S. Elliot in the title. We went straight into meditation.After the practice, we had assorted Q&A from several people, on many topics. Alan talked about "practicing well" regardless of how well the practice is going, and there are other pieces of golden information scattered throughout. I would also like to let you know that after receiving several emails offering donations, I added some links to donate to the Santa Barbara Institute for Conciousness Studies to help fund future podcasts. For those viewing this on the web click on the big arrow to see the subsite, and for those viewing this in iTunes go here: http://bit.ly/bnxSR5All of the profits will go to ensure that they can keep running podcasts in the future when I am not around. So don't worry, I don't want to make any money from you (and neither do they!)This picture of the surrounding jungle was provided by Sangay!

Today we had a very deep practice on Compassion. The introduction contains great examples as always in order to turn our minds towards the cultivation of compassion, to make real the suffering of others and to unveil our innate compassion, with the boldness, courage, and vision to realize what is happening, attend to the world of possibility, and aspire "may there be freedom." This will leave us poised for action and ready to come out of meditation and do some good in the world.The outro talks about the peril of classifying ourselves as "not a loving person" or "not a compassionate person." Being more reserved does not mean being less compassionate. Alan talks about the obscurations that these feelings bring, and how to peel off the crusts and reveal the compassion that we do not get from anyone, not even from the meditation, because it's already there. The meditation just blows the dust of our eyes.You may notice that this podcast is quite short. Unfortunately my poor laptop was expecting to be on retreat as well, little did it know what awaited it! Today it had an electrical affliction and the hard drive refused to continue recording. I have fixed it, but unfortunately this podcast was cut short. Not to worry, the themes covered will probably come up again very soon, and if you are still longing (I won't say craving) for more then:Alan is happy to announce that the videos are now available from the “Science and Buddhism” colloquium at the University of Oxford, sponsored by the Physiology Department and the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford, the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, and the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, March, 2010. The videos are accessible here: http://www.voicesfromoxford.org/B-S-Introduction.htmlThe videos are on a menu to the right and they can be downloaded!The picture used is that of Avalokiteśvara so that all sentient beings (and my laptop!) may be free of suffering!

This morning we practiced Settling the Mind by coming in through the senses with the phrase "In the perceived, let there be only the perceived" as a preparation for observing the mind. After a short introduction on the practice in which we touched briefly on the very interesting fact that the appearances that we see are not of a material nature in themselves. Anyway, enjoy the practice!On a side note, Alan is happy to announce that the videos are now available from the “Science and Buddhism” colloquium at the University of Oxford, sponsored by the Physiology Department and the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford, the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, and the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, March, 2010. The videos are accessible here: http://www.voicesfromoxford.org/B-S-Introduction.htmlThe videos are on a menu to the right and they can be downloaded!