Dorothy Hunt serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching at the request of Adyashanti. She is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy and has practiced psychotherapy since 1967. She is the author of Leaves from Moon Mountain, Only This!, and Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness. A contributing author to The Sacred Mirror, and Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Dorothy is also a featured spiritual teacher in the book, Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom: The Feminine Face of Awakening.
Dorothy has a long and deep connection to the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and the path of Self-Inquiry, as well as the nondual teachings of Zen, Advaita, and the Christian mystics. In meeting Adyashanti, she was invited beyond identification with either the absolute or relative, finding freedom in what is awake in each of us regardless of the changing faces of experience. Dorothy offers satsang, retreats, and private meetings in the San Francisco Bay area and elsewhere by invitation.
For more information, visit www.dorothyhunt.org
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Interview recorded 10/23/2015 at the Science and Nonduality Conference.
Second BatGap interview with Dorothy Hunt.
YouTube Video Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction to the Science and Non-Duality Conference
00:02:00 - The Personal Journey to Spiritual Development
00:03:46 - Early Exploration of Spiritual Experiences
00:05:29 - Self Inquiry and the Unknown
00:07:01 - The Shift in Identity
00:08:44 - Shifting Perspectives on Motherhood
00:10:36 - Awakening in the Relative World
00:12:17 - Awakening of the Heart and Hara
00:14:07 - The Deepening of Experience
00:15:55 - Levels of Awakening and Violence Reduction
00:17:47 - Liberation from Self Judgment
00:21:11 - Awakening to True Nature
00:22:45 - The Awakening Experience
00:24:23 - The Ease of House Cleaning Post-Awakening
00:26:03 - The Vulnerability of Openness
00:27:32 - Returning to Zero
00:29:16 - The Misidentification of Consciousness
00:30:48 - The Vaster Intelligence behind our Awakening
00:32:40 - Experiential Knowledge and the Divine Play
00:34:16 - The Dark Face of the Mystery
00:35:57 - The Mystery of Life
00:37:38 - Adapting to Different Realities
00:39:25 - The Experience of Time and Space
00:41:19 - Transformations and Separations in Life
00:42:58 - The Deepest Desire of the Heart
00:44:34 - The Beauty of Nature
00:46:06 - Poetry and Deep Desires
00:48:25 - Exploring Deeply Held Desires
00:50:05 - Embracing Our Inner Experience
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