The Constriction of the Existential View

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A lot of modern interpretations or versions of spiritual practices tend to conceive of the world as it seems is a kind of given there. So already there's a kind of implicit constriction in the existential view, he says. Some people are happy with that and some actually say they want this way of looking at the world. And I think that there's ways of training the perception, training the kinds of attention and the kinds of questioning we give to our experience," writes Ravi Agrawal.

In this conversation with meditation teacher and author Rob Burbea we discuss the role of fantasy in meditation, the purpose of what Rob calls the 'Soulmaking Dharma' and some common traps that can obstruct our connection with beauty on the contemplative path. This was the first conversation I had with Rob (there are two more you can listen to in the Emerge podcast stream). For various reasons I decided not to release it immediately after we recorded it, feeling that the subsequent conversations did a better job of communicating what I wanted to communicate. There were also some nasty recording problems that made it difficult at times for the conversation to be fluid and flowing. In any case this is a lovely coversation and I hope you enjoy! 🙏