Ryan Oelke on Awakening in Life
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Exploring the Inner Battle: A Journey of Curiosity
This chapter discusses a powerful parable about the inner battle between good and evil represented by two wolves. It emphasizes the need for radical curiosity and self-reflection to navigate these complexities and promote personal growth.
Ryan Oelke is the co-founder of Buddhist Geeks and is the founder of Awakening In Life. Ryan is a meditation teacher with an MS.Ed. in Counseling Psychology and has 18 years of experience in meditation. He is also a certified teacher in Judith Blackstone’s Realization Process. In this episode, Ryan and Eric discuss using Radical Curiosity and embodying our experiences to Awaken In Life.
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In This Interview, Ryan Oelke and I discuss Awakening in Life and…
- Practicing Radical Curiosity
- Coming home to yourself as you are in this moment
- Being radically open to what is happening to fully see it
- How nothing collapses consciousness faster than judgment
- How being curious implies being engaged with the subject matter
- Awakening in Life
- Life as the opportunity to awaken
- Ways to integrate spiritual principles into the moments of our life
- Cultivating capacity through formal practice
- How to use the little moments that might otherwise be “thrown away” during the day
- That focusing on embodying our experience enables it to become more deeply our own
- How awakening in life is a responsive, integral path
- A prescriptive path/model vs. a responsive path/model
- Having a deep trust in your own experience
- Metta Dharma
- That the entire point of waking up in life could be to have an appropriate response.
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