Well…I had imagined that the next post would be an audio-recording of a chapter from C.R. Lama Collected Works.
However Peter, who does the technical work on this website, is not well and is currently in hospital.
His treatment is working well but he is wisely pacing his work…and it seems that recording will be published very soon.

In the meantime, working with circumstances, like the ‘Potter’s Wheel’ film that used to fill the space between the main feature and the supplementary film at the cinema back in the day when reels of film had to be changed over between features…we can now offer you the Video recording of The Four Foundations of Mindfulness – Macclesfield talk 11 from 2010
on Vimeo…. on Youtube… as an audio recording

In this weekend of teaching: “Mindfulness is explored from different perspectives including psychotherapy, theravada and dzogchen. With mindfulness we can become intentionally attentive and careful so we are no longer at the mercy of whatever is happening. From the view of dzogchen we can be in the movement of the world as it changes and re-mind ourselves to relax back into integration.”

Those few sentences can’t encapsulate the breadth of the teaching but gesture towards its invitation into mindfulness of the body, of feeling, of the mind, and of dharmas.
Towards a deep investigation into how our belief in the veridical nature of thoughts has us inhabiting a world of knowable ‘things’ as a ‘certain thing’.
Towards seeing how and why fusion with and addiction to thoughts arises.. what we loose in this confusion and how to begin to ease out of the habit.
So hopefully you will find this rather more precious and useful than a ‘time-filling’ film…yet the potters’s wheel analogy is somehow fitting.
There’s a wheel, clay, movement, involvement…shaping…Some ‘thing’ seems to arise….something that can go back into the mass of clay…or we can become more involved in shaping… finally, using a wire, we cut this ‘some thing’ off from the base then ‘hard bake’ it.
Ok with clay…. but are we are doing this with thoughts… take a look : )

Thanks to Chris Coppock who made the original recording and to Pedro for making this widely available…and wishing good health to all!

The list of currently available ‘Macclesfield teachings , both audio and video, since 2003 can be viewed here