Join Lama Alan Wallace in this three-part course exploring the pith instructions found in Mipham Rinpoche’s Advice for Pointing Out the Mind in Accordance with the Tradition of the Old Realized Ones
About This Course
“Heed these words, You who wish to probe the depths of nature: If you do not find within yourself that which you seek, neither will you find it outside. In you is hidden the treasure of treasures. Know Thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods” – Delphi Oracle
A Lamp to Dispel Darkness is a translation by B. Alan Wallace of Mipham Rinpoche’s Advice for Pointing Out the Mind in Accordance with the Tradition of the Old Realized Ones.
It is a set of pith instructions that establish a powerful and profound path to sustain awareness of the essential nature of mind and thus wake up to the true nature of our being, without the need for extensive learning or solitary retreat experience.
In this three-part course originally recorded at Colet House, London in 2016, Lama Alan will guide and sustain those present in the clear, direct and specific pith instructions for both establishing, and sustaining such a view.
The intent of the teaching is:
• To crack open the egg of ignorance
• To cut the net of mundane existence
• To dwell in space like equipoise
This three-part course will aim to establish a sound basis for a practice, for both meditation and everyday life, which can be sustained continually; and in which the authenticity of the path is demonstrated in that ‘faith, compassion and wisdom naturally increase by themselves’.
The Teacher
B. Alan Wallace is one of the world’s leading scholars, writers, and teachers of Tibetan Buddhism, and an outspoken advocate for a revolution in the mind sciences, one that will replace the current paradigm of materialist reductionism with a new paradigm based on contemplative methods of inquiry into the nature and potentials of the mind.
With more than 40 years of formal studies in the Indo-Tibetan tradition (including 14 years as a monastic) and prestigious degrees from Amherst College and Stanford, he is uniquely qualified to bridge the gap between modern science and the time-tested approaches to contemplative practice preserved by multiple lineages. A student of the Dalai Lama and many other renowned teachers, he authored and translated more than 40 books on the philosophy of consciousness, Tibetan Buddhism and applied contemplative practice.
Detailed biography: https://www.alanwallace.org/about-alan-wallace/
Books by B. Alan Wallace: https://www.alanwallace.org/writings/books/
In Collaboration With
This retreat is shared freely with thanks to The Meridian Trust – Tibetan Buddhist Archive.
