Deconstructing Yourself

Awakening and the Path of Liberation, with Dan Brown

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May 20, 2020
Psychologist Dan Brown discusses levels of practice from awakening to buddhahood, neuroscience of nonduality, dzogchen as a path, and the future of dzogchen in the West. He shares insights on intelligence development, rainbow light transformation, relics, and intersections of Western psychology with Zogchen teachings.
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ANECDOTE

Meeting The Teacher In India

  • Dan Brown met his main Bon/Zogchen teacher after helping deliver clothes to a monastery in India.
  • The teacher asked Dan to translate and adapt advanced cave yogi teachings for Westerners and they worked closely for 12 years.
INSIGHT

Three Levels Of Practice

  • Dan frames three progressive levels: a taste of awakening, cultivating it continuously, and the path to full enlightenment.
  • He emphasizes preserving all stages of practice and studying their neuroscience.
INSIGHT

What A Taste Of Awakening Is

  • A taste of awakening involves opening to timeless, boundless, non-dual, non-localized awareness.
  • This awareness is non-conceptual, vivid, lucid, and suffused with love and knowing.
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