Stilling the Mind: Shamatha Teachings from Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence

In his previous book, The Attention Revolution, bestselling author Alan Wallace guided readers through the stages of shamatha, a meditation for focusing the mind. In Stilling the Mind, he uses the wisdom of Dzogchen--the highest of all the meditation traditions--to open up the shamatha practice into a space of vast freedom. Here, Wallace introduces us to Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence, one of the most cherished works of the Nyingma school from which Dzogchen stems. With his trademark enthusiasm and keen intelligence, Wallace makes obscure concepts intelligible to contemporary readers and allows us to glimpse the profound realizations of a great nineteenth-century spiritual adept.

• Fathoming the Mind: Inquiry and Insight in Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence
• The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind
• Heart of the Great Perfection: Dudjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection (1)
• In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
• The Vajra Essence (3) (Dudjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Per)
• The Four Immeasurables: Practices to Open the Heart
• Finding Rest in Illusion: The Trilogy of Rest, Volume 3
• Naked Awareness: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen
• Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation
• Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind: Trilogy of Rest, Volume 1