54 Taking Delight in Good Fortune

In this session, Alan Wallace guides a meditation on mudita, or
empathetic joy. He first speaks for some time about the
opportunity of a precious human birth, and the power
contemplating this opportunity has to shift the mind towards
gratitude and delight.


The guided meditation begins at 21:55 in the recording.


Alan then answers these questions from the group:


1. When we are practicing settling the mind in its natural state,
thoughts always come. Do them come from the substrate
consciousness or the space of the mind?


and


In awareness of awareness, is this awareness from rigpa or
substrate?


2. Is awareness of awareness equivalent to the skandha of
consciousness?


Is it essentially rigpa?


If so, do other phenomena manifest rigpa differently?


Is that which concentrates equivalent to or associated with
volition?


3. In awareness of awareness, I find it difficult to divorce the
physical from what I'm doing. When releasing, I feel my body
relaxing, and then when withdrawing, I feel my body tensing up. I
don't know how to separate from these physical feelings.