Guru Viking Podcast Ep14 Daniel Ingram - Guru Viking Interviews
Feb 25, 2019
01:29:10
The Witch Dream
- At age 14/15, Daniel Ingram had a vivid dream where he exploded after a witch's attack.
- This dream, later identified as an insight stage, marked the start of his spiritual journey.
Childhood Experiences and Meditation
- Childhood mystical experiences, while common among meditators, don't guarantee success.
- Some successful meditators have no prior unusual experiences.
First Retreat Challenges
- Ingram's first retreat was physically and mentally challenging, lacking initial meditative talent.
- He learned to feel his feet by walking barefoot on painful stone walls.
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Introduction
00:00 • 6min
What Kind of Childhood Experiences Are Common in Meditators?
05:32 • 2min
What Was Your First Meditation Retreat Like?
07:14 • 3min
How to Feel Your Feet in a Walking Meditation
10:00 • 3min
Is There a Way to Improve Your Health?
12:49 • 3min
What Was It Like Being Immersed in Such Poverty?
15:55 • 5min
How Did You Learn Meditation Techniques?
20:59 • 3min
The Dharma Meditation Technique - A Very Simple Technique
23:54 • 3min
How Important Is It That You Find a Technique That Leverages Your Existence?
27:09 • 2min
Mahasi Sideo Noting
29:28 • 5min
The Seven Deadly Sins
34:12 • 3min
The Dark Night, or Ducananas?
37:19 • 3min
The Dark Night
40:39 • 4min
The Aftershocks Following Stream Entry
44:22 • 6min
Do You Think Disclosure of Attainments Is So Important?
50:14 • 1min
The Polycan of the Buddha's Teachings, and the Te Modi Maga of the Anagami Budagosa
51:31 • 5min
How Do I Achieve Stream Entry?
56:14 • 4min
I've Attained First Path and I Want to Attain Second Parth
01:00:23 • 6min
Mastering the Buddha
01:06:10 • 5min
I Have Attained Third Path, Honest, and I Want to Attain Fourth
01:11:23 • 5min
What's the Path of Sense Dores?
01:16:23 • 4min
How to Get the Higher Paths in a Podcast?
01:20:08 • 2min
How Do You Deal With Exposure to the Maps?
01:22:13 • 3min
You Do Damned if Your Don't, Situation
01:24:56 • 2min
How Do I Get Back to You?
01:26:28 • 3min
New episode!
In this interview I am joined by meditation teacher and author Daniel Ingram.
Daniel sparked great controversy when in 2008 he published his first book ‘Mastering The Core Teachings Of The Buddha: An Unusual Hardcore Dharma Book’, signing it as the Arahant Daniel Ingram.
Naming himself an arahant, which is one of the highest attainments in Buddhism, flew in the face of cultural taboos against disclosing one’s enlightenment.
In this fascinating conversation we delve into Daniel’s childhood mystical experiences and how he overcame a lack of meditational talent to embark upon a life of intense retreat and practice.
We discuss his meditation challenges and accomplishments, and lay out the stages of awakening and how to traverse them.
At the end, Daniel turns the tables on *me* and questions my own experience and motivations!
I hope you enjoy this one!
- Daniel’s childhood mystical experiences
- Crossing the arising and passing away in a dream
- Daniel’s first retreat and overcoming a lack of meditation talent
- ‘Learning to feel my feet’
- Travelling to India
- Coming face to face with sickness and poverty in the slums of Calcutta
- Learning a powerful meditation technique in Malaysia that changed everything
- How an old Burmese monk introduced Daniel to a map of insight
- How to find the right meditation path for you
- Lead through strength but don’t get stuck
- How Daniel used personal pride as an aid on the path
- Dark Night of the Soul and the Dhukka Nanas
- A summary of the cycle of insight
- Daniel’s dark night
- Achieving stream entry
- The God-Gerbil
- Aftershocks of awakening
- Why Daniel believes in disclosing attainments
- Rapid fire practice guide
- I want to attain stream entry, what do I do?
- I have attained stream entry and I want to attain 2nd, what do I do?
- I have attained 2nd path and I want to attain 3rd, what do I do?
- I have attained 3rd path and I want to attain 4th, what do I do?
- I am an arrant - now what?
- Daniel turns the tables on Steve
- Where do Steve’s questions come from?
- What is his experience of map theory?
- How does Steve use maps when teaching meditation?
For the video version of this interview visit: https://www.facebook.com/guruviking/videos/386877215223610/
To find our more about Daniel, visit: http://integrateddaniel.info
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Music 'Deva Dasi' by Steve James