The Infinite Field of Play

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Buddhism has a tendency to disengage from concepts, the general tendency and kind of movement. And I wonder if it's just because Westerners are so kind of information overloaded and thinking overloaded that we don't know how to let the thinking mind go quiet. So there's two things there. One is what I would call like, as he said, subtle conceptuality, I alluded to before. As one goes deeper and deeper in meditation, this sense of letting go begins to fade into something called "the constellation of appearances" The whole place for what could open up in an experience is becoming more apparent.

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! 🙏