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Mindfulness is one of the best-known Buddhist practices today. Buddhists of all traditions see it as a means to gain a deeper understanding of reality and thus to provide more inner freedom.
 
Workshop With Dr. B. Alan Wallace
Mindfulness in the Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism on Friday the 19th at 6:30 (Hamburg Time)
In Dzogchen meditation on the nature of the mind, mindfulness is central to the practice of observing the space of the mind and its contents, including the thoughts, emotions etc.. On the basis of this mindfulness, consciousness settles into its own natural state. A meditator can then realize the substrate consciousness (skt. alayavijñana), the relative ground state of the mind.
 
On that basis, he or she applies mindfulness to the cultivation of insight, or vipashyana, to realize the ultimate nature of all phenomena. Ultimately, mindfulness is used to realize all phenomena as displays of the absolute space of phenomena (dharmadhatu) and thereby recognize one’s own nature as primordial consciousness, which is indivisible from that space. This workshop will consist of brief talks, guided meditations, and time for discussion.