It's pretty much impossible to change our systems without first changing ourselves. But what is our "self" anyways? Here's how to use a simple question to add rocket fuel to your meditation practice and wake up from the dream that we are separate, struggling beings apart from the rest of life. Video and transcript here.
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Topic List:
00:00 Intro
00:37 Meditation Vs. inquiry, what’s the purpose of inquiry
05:10 Who are you?
08:41 Hitting the fear barrier, the doubt barrier, the thought trap
16:50 Inquiry and the identity shift of awakening, dissolution of ego
19:53 Resistance & shadow
24:27 Obstructing beliefs/thoughts common to the process
27:35 Self-inquiry vs. surrendered inquiry into the nature of reality post awakening, non-duality
32:10 Surrendering to unfiltered, self-less reality
36:12 Why the smartest people have the most trouble with this
38:20 Investigating the imagined self, the science of no-self
41:39 Can the experience of unfiltered reality be destabilizing, the goal of liberation
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