B. Alan Wallace is an author and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism from Santa Barbara, California. Use this tag for questions referencing content in his books and lectures.
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How does one do mindfulness of breathing with relaxation?
In this lecture, by B. Alan Wallace, of mindfulness of breathing with relaxation, it has been instructed that I have to release all thoughts, relax every part of the body and let go of all involuntary thoughts during exhalation.
Now what exactly is…
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Meditation on Awareness : objects and phenomena vs Awareness
On http://media.sbinstitute.com/courses/spring2016/91/ , there is an Awareness-based meditation where we are invited to observe the various objects that we are aware off : thoughts, sounds, sensations, etc...
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a/ do these objects appear…
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Awakening into meditative state
One night I awoke straight into meditative state(I practice Samatha),it was so odd that really awoke me for real.If I hadn't of been so surprised I might have just gone with it.anyone else ? Other than being slightly surprising it was OK.
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