Paul has been involved with the recovery community since 1988 and has been leading workshops and holding talks for 18 years.
He has been assisting those with addiction problems for many years. The 12-step program has some very potent ‘pointers’, which have assisted a few to go beyond the 12 steps.
Paul is unwavering in his teaching. His very direct, uncompromising pointing doesn't provide a refuge for entrenched conditioning and the sense of separateness, no matter how convincing that experience may be.
"Whatever arises in my mind, I don't let it vouch for me." "Any form of looking that focuses on an object misses the opportunity to directly be the seeing, and not be identified with the object."
Paul's site: ZenBitchSlap.
Summary and Transcript of this interview.
Interview recorded 3/26/2011
YouTube Video Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction to Paul Hedderman
00:03:18 - The Essence of Awakening
00:05:13 - The cat knocking over the light and the value of interpretation
00:07:31 - The false interpretation of a self
00:10:00 - The Bogusness of Self
00:12:23 - The concept of selfing explained
00:14:30 - Language and the Reflective Mind
00:17:12 - Freedom from the Bondage of Being a Self
00:19:43 - A Conversation on Repetition and Learning
00:22:15 - Childhood Innocence and Ant Wars
00:24:33 - Finding Relief in Alcohol and Drugs
00:26:50 - The Book of Recovery: A Spiritual Program
00:28:49 - The Identification as Self
00:31:34 - Living in "having found"
00:34:13 - The Flow of Juice
00:36:22 - Spiritual Practices and Near-Death Experience
00:38:18 - Exploring Different Spiritual Practices
00:40:48 - Letting Go of the Failed System
00:43:03 - The Mental Vice of Selfing
00:45:16 - The False Center
00:47:46 - Degrees of Bondage
00:50:05 - The Illusion of "Self" and Freedom from Selfing
00:52:07 - The Pause in Selfing
00:54:00 - Applying the Approach to Recovery
00:56:22 - The Origin of "Zen Bitch-Slap"
00:58:58 - The Illusion of Personal Death
01:01:16 - The Seeing of What I'm Not
01:03:23 - The Paradox of What's Not Going On (with Rick Archer)
01:06:01 - A Course In Miracles and the Structure of the Mind
01:08:11 - Traveling Light through Maya
01:10:15 - A Fun Place to Live
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