Host Michael Taft speaks with Loch Kelly on nondual practices, contemporary forms of ancient awareness techniques, dzogchen, mahamudra, advaita, the role of psychotherapy in awakening, the need—or not—for a guru, open-hearted awareness, internal family systems therapy, and more.
Loch Kelly is an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of the non-profit, Open-Hearted Awareness Institute. Loch teaches in a non-sectarian lineage based in the earliest non-dual wisdom traditions, modern science, and psychotherapy.
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Show Notes:
00:43 - Intro
03:05 - Loch’s meditation background
06:59 - Shifting from concentration practice to choiceless awareness practice
10:01 - Meeting Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
12:23 - The experience vs explanation of ‘pure awareness’ in different traditions
14:38 - Mahamudra
15:31 - The dualism in stopping halfway at ‘pure/spacious awareness’
17:54 - Recognition vs realization
20:02 - The possibility of ‘awake awareness’ in different traditions
22:53 - Contacting nondual awareness
24:00 - How can awareness be aware of awareness, if you are not aware from awareness?
28:10 - The contemporary teaching of unhooking ‘local awareness’
34:42 - The vipassana model/map vs natural awakenings
37:42 - Upgrading the mahamudra map and instructions (from ‘pure awareness’ to ‘awake awareness’)
43:07 - The four or five levels of the mind in mahamudra (1. everyday mind, 2. subtle mind, 3. pure awareness, 4. simultaneous mind, 5. open-hearted awareness/bodhicitta)
46:13 - Thoughts and emotions in ‘open-hearted awareness’
50:09 - Teaching moving from ‘spacious awareness’ to ‘awake awareness’
56:02 - Wonder, freedom, and joy in wisdom mind
01:02:14 - Postural yoga and pranayama in mahamudra
01:05:18 - Integrating ‘one-pointed awareness’ into the ‘field of awareness’
01:08:37 - Psychotherapy as a “preliminary” practice
01:10:42 - The “crazy yogi”: waking up without growing up
01:13:32 - The healing power of ‘open-hearted awareness’ in IFS (Internal Family Systems)
01:16:40 - The role of the guru in different traditions; “energetic transmission”
01:21:37 - Don’t stop halfway and come on in the water!
01:27:30 - Teaching vipassana in a nondual way
01:32:47 - Loch’s latest teaching- and personal inquiries
01:35:14 - Outro
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