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Full Retreat and Summaries
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Transcript or Writing
Title of Talk or Writing
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Broad Topics
Detailed Topics
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<-- Information about this project and using this Airtable
November Solitary
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Mindfulness of Mind States
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21010/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
mindfulness, foundations of: third foundation (citta)
emotions / mind states: how to recognize mind states
emotions / mind states, resourcing and cultivating skillful
purification / stored psychological material
emotions, skill with
impermanence (anicca)
November Solitary
2
Contemplating the Three Characteristics (Part 1) - Impermanence And Dukkha
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21008/
emptiness/insight
three characteristics
dukkha (suffering)
impermanence (anicca)
November Solitary
3
Contemplating the Three Characteristics (Part 2) - Anatta (Not Self)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21009/
emptiness/insight
three characteristics
not-self (anatta)
self-views, noticing and practicing with
aggregates (skandhas)
November Solitary
4
Compassion and Emptiness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21007/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
compassion
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
The Art of Letting Go - Insight Meditation
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The Art of Letting Go
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21013/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
renunciation/letting go
clinging / craving: practical approaches
clinging / craving: noticing and working with in body
New Year Retreat
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The Place of Love in Insight Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21006/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
mindfulness
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
Practice: welcoming/allowing
Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat
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Renunciation and Joy
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12860/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
renunciation/letting go
joy
eightfold path
sensitivity
Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat
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Beyond the Prison of the Self
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12445/
emptiness/insight
self-views, noticing and practicing with
not-self (anatta)
generosity
judgment/inner critic
Meditation Day
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Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21012/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
close investigation of experience / 'bare attention'
Meditation Day
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Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21011/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
emptiness/insight: personal vs universal vs ultimate insight
eightfold path
purification / stored psychological material
close investigation of experience / 'bare attention'
sensitivity
mindfulness: RAIN
Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland
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Sunday Morning Instructions
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2006-10-01-sunday-morning-instructions
emptiness/insight
samadhi/jhana
mindfulness
guided meditation on the breath
samadhi
close investigation of experience / 'bare attention'
samadhi: qualities practice develops (refinement, patience, mindfulness, etc.)
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland
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Mindfulness
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2006-10-01-mindfulness
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
emptiness/insight: personal vs universal vs ultimate insight
clarity/vividness as a stage or bandwidth of unfabricating
emotions
sensitivity
mindfulness, foundations of
mindfulness: RAIN
dukkha (suffering)
Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland
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Tuesday Morning Instructions
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2006-10-01-tuesday-morning-instructions
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
mindfulness, foundations of: second foundation (vedana)
mindfulness, foundations of
Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland
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Letting Go of Judgement
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2006-10-01-letting-go-of-judgement
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
judgment vs discernment
judgment/inner critic
mindfulness, foundations of
metta
views/orientations in practice
working with thought in practice
Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland
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Thursday Morning Instructions
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2006-10-01-thursday-morning-instructions
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
mindfulness, foundations of
mindfulness, foundations of: third foundation (citta)
emotions
working with thought in practice
labeling in practice
Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland
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Renunciation and Joy
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2006-10-01-renunciation-and-joy
brahmaviharas
joy
renunciation/letting go
sensitivity
aging/sickness/death
Talk Given Between Retreats
1
Letting Go of Judgement
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21014/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
judgment vs discernment
judgment/inner critic
mindfulness, foundations of
metta
views/orientations in practice
working with thought in practice
November Solitary
1
From Feelings to Freedom (Exploring Vedana)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12482/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
mindfulness, foundations of: second foundation (vedana)
working with pain / discomfort
mindfulness, foundations of
sensitivity
three characteristics
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
November Solitary
2
Samadhi
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12483/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
definitions: samadhi
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
breath meditation
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
emptiness/insight: cementing and consolidating insights
samadhi: dependent on and leading to happiness
working with tightness in samadhi practice
samadhi: using the body to navigate
active versus receptive modes of practice
goals and effort
attachment: the place of attachment on the path
piti
repression / suppression
November Solitary
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Emotional Healing
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12481/
other topics
emotions
emotions: increase energy in attention, decrease in emotion
mindfulness
emotions: range, ability to be with, unknotting, confidence
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
self-views, noticing and practicing with
personality level - working with reified self
purification / stored psychological material
not-self (anatta)
emptiness: what is emptiness?
views/orientations in practice
emotions / mind states: how views/assumptions affect practice
November Solitary
4
The Nature of Awareness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12484/
emptiness/insight
emptiness/insight: the nature of mind or awareness
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
emptiness: dependence on mind, mind's dependence
mind as a mirror metaphor
beyond spaciousness/the vastness of awareness
three characteristics
not-self (anatta)
the Unfabricated
Practice: same substance as awareness
emptiness of time
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
Practice: mutual emptiness of consciousness and perception
non-doing, reluctance to 'do' in practice
New Year Retreat
1
Equanimity
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12307/
brahmaviharas
equanimity
worldly winds
equanimity: near enemies
definitions: equanimity
equanimity: ways it can arise
impermanence (anicca)
wonder
joy
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
New Year Retreat
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Views In Practice (...They Make All the Difference)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12308/
emptiness/insight
views/orientations in practice
Four Noble Truths
ethics/engagement
eightfold path
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
three characteristics
purification / stored psychological material
non-doing, reluctance to 'do' in practice
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
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Samadhi in Metta Practice
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12294/
brahmaviharas
samadhi/jhana
metta
samadhi
piti
definitions: samadhi
samadhi: focus on one object or a wider open field
samadhi: how and why it develops
samadhi: dependent on and leading to happiness
gratitude and appreciation
working with tightness in samadhi practice
goals and effort
repression / suppression
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
2
Expressions of Metta
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12290/
brahmaviharas
metta
metta: working with categories
metta to self
metta to friend
metta: near enemies
metta to neutral person
emotions / mind states: anger
metta: practicing with the body
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
3
From Insight to Love
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12291/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
definitions: what is insight?
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
not-self (anatta)
three characteristics
critique: anguish and fear as stages of insight
impermanence (anicca)
dukkha (suffering)
emptiness/insight: list of impermanence (anicca) practices
emptiness/insight: list of dukkha (suffering) practices
emptiness/insight: list of anatta (emptiness of self) practices
oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.)
aging/sickness/death
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
4
The Practice of Compassion
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12295/
brahmaviharas
compassion
inquiring
compassion: near enemies
compassion to self
emptiness/insight: cementing and consolidating insights
Practice: compassion to ownerless mind moments
emptiness: dependence on mind, mind's dependence
equanimity
ethics/engagement
compassionate action and attachment
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
5
Guided Meditation - Metta to Phenomena
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12292/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
metta towards phenomena
compassion
Practice: welcoming/allowing
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
6
Love and Emptiness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12293/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
metta: retraining the habits of mind
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
the Unfabricated
self-views, noticing and practicing with
metta and compassion: love without an object
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
awakening
metta towards phenomena
metta and compassion seeming to mix and blend
practice schedules / balancing different practices
emptiness: what is emptiness?
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
7
Equanimity in Compassion
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12289/
brahmaviharas
compassion
equanimity
definitions: equanimity
samadhi
equanimity in compassion practice
equanimity: near enemies
worldly winds
equanimity: ways it can arise
impermanence (anicca)
equanimity: types of equanimity
Day Retreat, London Insight
1
Beyond the Prison of Self (Part One)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-03-01-beyond-the-prison-of-self-part-one
emptiness/insight
not-self (anatta)
self-views, noticing and practicing with
Day Retreat, London Insight
2
Beyond the Prison of Self (Part Two)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-03-01-beyond-the-prison-of-self-part-two
emptiness/insight
not-self (anatta)
self-views, noticing and practicing with
generosity
judgment/inner critic
karma
Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat
1
Home and Homelessness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12344/
other topics
renunciation/letting go
homelessness on the path
authenticity
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
Four Noble Truths
ways practice can bring sense of at-homeness, belonging
impermanence (anicca)
taking refuge
beyond spaciousness/the vastness of awareness
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat
2
Passion, Desire, and the Path
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12343/
other topics
desire/eros
goals and effort
goals and effort: elements of wise effort
desire: the place of desire in insight and cultivation practices
desire affects how and which experiences unfold
sexuality/romantic relationships
energy: factors that block or inhibit energy
precepts
working with tiredness / dullness
critique: disgust as a stage of insight
Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat
3
God and the Ultimate Truth
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12342/
other topics
mystical openings and experiences
Christian mysticism
inquiring
devotion
compassion
oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.)
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
time and timelessness
emptiness of time
the Unfabricated
depths and dimensions of silence
Samatha Meditation
1
Opening Talk on Samatha (Concentration Practice)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12312/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
breath meditation: manipulating / playing with the breath
getting in touch with deeper priorities
gratitude and appreciation
precepts
Samatha Meditation
2
First Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation on the Breath
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12310/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
breath meditation
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
samadhi: qualities practice develops (refinement, patience, mindfulness, etc.)
guided meditation on the breath
Samatha Meditation
3
Working with the Hindrances
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12315/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
hindrances
goals and effort
sense pleasure
sexual energy, working with
repression / suppression
emotions / mind states: boredom
sensitivity
emotions: increase energy in attention, decrease in emotion
working with tiredness / dullness
mindfulness, foundations of: fourth foundation
Samatha Meditation
4
Second Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12313/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
breath meditation
working with pain / discomfort
guided meditation on the breath
Samatha Meditation
5
Developing Samatha/Concentration
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12309/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
definitions: samadhi
samadhi: how and why it develops
samadhi: benefits of practice, samadhi as resource
emptiness/insight: cementing and consolidating insights
samadhi: dependent on and leading to happiness
hindrances
goals and effort
piti
repression / suppression
Samatha Meditation
6
Third Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12314/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
breath meditation
guided meditation on the breath
breath meditation: breathing through different areas of the body
Samatha Meditation
7
Jhana Practice
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12311/
samadhi/jhana
jhana
intro/overview
jhana: map of all eight jhanas
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
samadhi: relationship of samatha and insight
jhana: insight as base/springboard practice
Cambridge Day Retreats
1
Views
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-06-15-views
emptiness/insight
views/orientations in practice
Four Noble Truths
generosity
samadhi: developing well-being, happiness, nourishment
renunciation/letting go
mindfulness
three characteristics
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
Cambridge Day Retreats
1
Opening Talk - Letting Go of Judgment
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-06-16-opening-talk-letting-go-of-judgment
emptiness/insight
judgment/inner critic
judgment vs discernment
mindfulness
Cambridge Day Retreats
2
Guided Meditation
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-06-16-guided-meditation
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
breath meditation
guided meditation on the breath
walking meditation
Cambridge Day Retreats
3
Judgment
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-06-16-judgment
emptiness/insight
judgment/inner critic
mindfulness
metta
metta: retraining the habits of mind
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
self-views, noticing and practicing with
three characteristics
not-self (anatta)
Cambridge Day Retreats
4
Questions and Answers
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-06-16-questions-and-answers
emptiness/insight
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
mindfulness
metta
metta: retraining the habits of mind
Path of Liberation, IMS
1
Freedom from Fear and Anxiety
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/868/
emptiness/insight
emotions
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
inquiring
generosity
mindfulness
emotions / mind states: fearlessness in regard to emotions
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
judgment/inner critic
metta
emotions / mind states, resourcing and cultivating skillful
Deepening in Wisdom
1
Ocean of Patience
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12222/
emptiness/insight
samadhi/jhana
mindfulness
samadhi
emotions
samadhi: qualities practice develops (refinement, patience, mindfulness, etc.)
sila, samadhi, panna (aspects of the path)
Deepening in Wisdom
2
The Self and the World
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12223/
emptiness/insight
self-views, noticing and practicing with
three characteristics
not-self (anatta)
aggregates (skandhas)
healing of the world (tikkun olam)
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
the Unfabricated
Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland
1
What Are We Doing Here?
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-10-13-what-are-we-doing-here
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
inquiring
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
samadhi: developing well-being, happiness, nourishment
samadhi: qualities practice develops (refinement, patience, mindfulness, etc.)
dukkha (suffering)
Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland
2
Equanimity
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-10-15-equanimity
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
equanimity
equanimity: near enemies
impermanence (anicca)
joy
art's importance in the world
worldly winds
equanimity: types of equanimity
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland
3
Freedom from Fear and Anxiety
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-10-17-freedom-from-fear-and-anxiety
emptiness/insight
emotions
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
inquiring
generosity
mindfulness
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
judgment/inner critic
metta
November Solitary
1
"A Body at Peace with Itself"
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11926/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
mindfulness, foundations of: first foundation (body)
aging/sickness/death
overestimating effect of mind on body, health, illness
working with pain / discomfort
sizes or scopes of attention (narrow, energy body, vast)
malleability of perception
three characteristics
impermanence (anicca)
dukkha (suffering)
not-self (anatta)
November Solitary
2
A Question of Faith
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11927/
other topics
inquiring
faith
devotion
views of the path
Four Noble Truths
November Solitary
3
Into the Depths of Silence
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11928/
emptiness/insight
depths and dimensions of silence
getting in touch with deeper priorities
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
Practice: opening to sounds and silence
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
the Unfabricated shining through this world
November Solitary
4
Time and the Emptiness of Time
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11929/
emptiness/insight
emptiness of time
Practice: Neither one nor many
Practice: diamond slivers analysis (Nagarjuna)
Christian mysticism
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
emptiness/insight: fading or logic and analysis as ways in
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
eternality / timelessness
Day Retreat, London Insight
1
Emotional Healing (Part One)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-12-09-emotional-healing-part-one
emptiness/insight
emotions
mindfulness
mindfulness, foundations of: third foundation (citta)
emotions: increase energy in attention, decrease in emotion
emotions / mind states: how views/assumptions affect practice
emotions / mind states: fearlessness in regard to emotions
Day Retreat, London Insight
2
Emotional Healing (Part Two)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2007-12-09-emotional-healing-part-two
emptiness/insight
emotions
emotions / mind states, resourcing and cultivating skillful
joy
metta
communication, skill with
purification / stored psychological material
emotions / mind states: how views/assumptions affect practice
emotions / mind states: fearlessness in regard to emotions
New Year Retreat
1
What is 'Insight'?
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11972/
emptiness/insight
intro/overview
definitions: what is insight?
emptiness/insight: personal vs universal vs ultimate insight
emptiness/insight: cementing and consolidating insights
Four Noble Truths
three characteristics
impermanence (anicca)
dukkha (suffering)
not-self (anatta)
New Year Retreat
2
Joy
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11971/
brahmaviharas
joy
inquiring
emotions / mind states: different kinds of happiness
emotions / mind states: sadness, depression
gratitude and appreciation
piti
wonder
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
1
The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11955/
brahmaviharas
samadhi/jhana
metta
samadhi
piti
definitions: samadhi
samadhi: focus on one object or a wider open field
samadhi: aspects of samadhi (well-being, focus, energization, etc.)
samadhi: relationship of samatha and insight
samadhi: dependent on and leading to happiness
gratitude and appreciation
hindrances
samadhi: using the body to navigate
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
repression / suppression
purification / stored psychological material
self-views, noticing and practicing with
metta: working with phrases
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
2
Exploring the World of Loving Kindness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11951/
brahmaviharas
metta
metta: working with categories
metta to self
metta: near enemies
metta to friend
self-views, noticing and practicing with
clinging, the dependence of self-sense on
emotions / mind states: anger
Right Speech
precepts
emotions / mind states: hurt
metta: practicing with the body
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
depths and dimensions of silence
oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.)
metta: ways of practicing without phrases
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
3
Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11956/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
compassion
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
definitions: what is insight?
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
three characteristics
impermanence (anicca)
aging/sickness/death
dukkha (suffering)
clinging / craving: noticing and working with in body
not-self (anatta)
judgment/inner critic
aggregates (skandhas)
samadhi and insight: order of practice
metta: working with phrases
working with pain / discomfort
ways of looking, flexibility in
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
4
Compassion
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11950/
brahmaviharas
compassion
compassion: ways of practicing formally and informally
compassion: near enemies
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
emotions / mind states: anger
not-self (anatta)
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
5
Compassion Part Two (Compassion for Ourselves)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11949/
brahmaviharas
compassion
compassion to self
compassion: ways of practicing formally and informally
Practice: compassion to ownerless mind moments
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
6
Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11952/
brahmaviharas
compassion
gratitude and appreciation
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
7
Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11957/
brahmaviharas
metta
metta towards phenomena
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
8
Love and the Emptiness of Things
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11953/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
compassion
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
metta: retraining the habits of mind
Practice: welcoming/allowing
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
the Unfabricated
awakening
metta and compassion: love without an object
metta towards phenomena
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.)
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
9
The Birth of a Bodhisattva
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11954/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
compassion
equanimity
equanimity in compassion practice
equanimity: near enemies
faith
bodhicitta
Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening
10
Q&A on Samadhi, Compassion, Emptiness, and the Unconditioned
n/a
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
samadhi/jhana
metta
compassion
samadhi
equanimity
practice schedules / balancing different practices
sensitivity
the Unfabricated
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
jhana
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
nimittas
Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat
1
Opening Talk for Work Retreat - Working and Awakening
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11861/
emptiness/insight
informal practice and service work
mindfulness
views/orientations in practice
inquiring
getting in touch with deeper priorities
gratitude and appreciation
precepts
Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat
2
Death
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11859/
emptiness/insight
aging/sickness/death
mindfulness
views/orientations in practice
inquiring
getting in touch with deeper priorities
three characteristics
impermanence (anicca)
Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat
3
Love / The Difficulties of Love
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11860/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
inquiring
sexuality/romantic relationships
judgment/inner critic
devotion
emotions
emotions, authenticity and fabrication of
emotions / mind states: vulnerability
emotions / mind states: fear of rejection
Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat
4
Awakening
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11862/
emptiness/insight
awakening
awakening: ideas about what awakened people are like
awakening: stream-entry, stages of awakening
aggregates (skandhas)
Cambridge Day Retreats
1
Freedom from Fear and Anxiety (Introduction)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2008-04-01-freedom-from-fear-and-anxiety-introduction
emptiness/insight
emotions
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
mindfulness
emotions / mind states: relationship of aversion and heart closing
Cambridge Day Retreats
2
Guided Meditation (Breath)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2008-04-01-guided-meditation-breath
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
guided meditation on the breath
Cambridge Day Retreats
3
Instructions and Short Guided Meditation (Breath)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2008-04-01-instructions-and-short-guided-meditation-breath
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
guided meditation on the breath
Cambridge Day Retreats
4
Freedom from Fear and Anxiety (Dharma Talk)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2008-04-01-freedom-from-fear-and-anxiety-dharma-talk
emptiness/insight
emotions
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
mindfulness
Practice: welcoming/allowing
judgment/inner critic
metta
inquiring
Cambridge Day Retreats
5
Questions and Answers
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2008-04-01-questions-and-answers
emptiness/insight
emptiness of time
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
purification / stored psychological material
definitions: equanimity
passion
Tuesday Evening Talks, Sharpham
1
Nirvana and Transcendence
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11974/
emptiness/insight
the Unfabricated
views of the path
mindfulness
goals and effort
emptiness of time
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
the Unfabricated shining through this world
The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)
1
Talk One: Introduction to the Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11511/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
definitions: samadhi
breath meditation
breath meditation: manipulating / playing with the breath
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
breath meditation: conceptions of the breath
samadhi: attitudes around pleasure in meditation
motivation
aging/sickness/death
generosity
renunciation/letting go
ethics/engagement
samadhi: dependent on and leading to happiness
gratitude and appreciation
precepts
art, meditation practice as
The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)
2
First Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11510/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
breath meditation
guided meditation on the breath
The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)
3
Talk Two: Understanding the Heart
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11514/
samadhi/jhana
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
hindrances
samadhi
emotions
emotions / mind states, resourcing and cultivating skillful
generosity
goals and effort
working with pain / discomfort
samadhi: developing well-being, happiness, nourishment
metaphors: fire
breath meditation
working with tiredness / dullness
samadhi: put pleasant/nice in connection with blockage/difficulty
breath meditation: breathing through different areas of the body
sensitivity
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
purification / stored psychological material
repression / suppression
self-views, noticing and practicing with
emotions / mind states: different kinds of happiness
The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)
4
Second Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11512/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
breath meditation
working with pain / discomfort
sensitivity
samadhi: put pleasant/nice in connection with blockage/difficulty
hindrances
practice as kindness
breath meditation: breathing through different areas of the body
The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)
5
Talk Three: Wise Effort and Wise Attachment
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11516/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
goals and effort
desire: the place of desire in insight and cultivation practices
goals and effort: elements of wise effort
attachment: the place of attachment on the path
critique: the practice of 'just letting go'
judgment/inner critic
Practice: reflecting on positive qualities
sensitivity
The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)
6
Third Morning Instructions
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11518/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
breath meditation
gratitude and appreciation
working with thought in practice
hindrances
samadhi: modulating effort level in attention/concentration
The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)
7
Talk Four: Jhanas One to Four
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11515/
samadhi/jhana
intro/overview
piti
jhana
definitions: piti and sukha
samadhi and jhana: doubts/concerns in or about practice
samadhi: benefits of practice, samadhi as resource
samadhi: relationship of samatha and insight
awakening
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)
8
Fourth Morning Instructions
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11517/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
breath meditation
breath meditation: breathing through different areas of the body
samadhi: modulating effort level in attention/concentration
qualities of attention: softness versus intensity
labeling in practice
Practice: welcoming/allowing
hindrances
working with tiredness / dullness
seeing unpleasant as pleasant or pain as pleasure
The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)
9
Talk Five: Samatha, Nibbana and the Emptiness of Perception - The Relationship Between Concentration and Insight
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11513/
emptiness/insight
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
samadhi: relationship of samatha and insight
samadhi and insight: order of practice
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
jhana: infinite space in fifth jhana
jhana: infinite consciousness in sixth jhana
jhana: nothingness in seventh jhana
jhana: neither perception nor non-perception in eighth jhana
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
three characteristics
seeing unpleasant as pleasant or pain as pleasure
the Unfabricated
awakening
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation
1
Working with Anger and Aversion
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10645/
emptiness/insight
emotions
emotions / mind states: anger
kilesas
emotions, skill with
inquiring
mindfulness
mindfulness, foundations of: first foundation (body)
communication, skill with
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation
2
On the Essence of Being
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10640/
emptiness/insight
personality level - working with reified self
Buddha-nature
mind as a mirror metaphor
oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.)
emptiness of time
critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process
beyond spaciousness/the vastness of awareness
views/orientations in practice
devotion
Equanimity
1
The Development of Equanimity: Introduction and First Instructions
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10641/
brahmaviharas
equanimity
worldly winds
definitions: equanimity
equanimity: types of equanimity
equanimity: near enemies
equanimity: ways it can arise
awakening
getting in touch with deeper priorities
guided meditation on equanimity
central line mindfulness
impermanence (anicca)
Equanimity
2
Second Day Instructions - Vedana
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10642/
brahmaviharas
equanimity
mindfulness, foundations of: second foundation (vedana)
impermanence (anicca)
Equanimity
3
The Unshakeable Heart (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10643/
brahmaviharas
equanimity
joy
worldly winds
impermanence (anicca)
aging/sickness/death
clinging / craving: practical approaches
clarity/vividness as a stage or bandwidth of unfabricating
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Equanimity
4
The Unshakeable Heart (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10644/
brahmaviharas
equanimity
karma
metta
generosity
worldly winds
not-self (anatta)
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
November Solitary
1
Approaches to the Hindrances
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10836/
emptiness/insight
hindrances
art, meditation practice as
views/orientations in practice
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
working with tiredness / dullness
non-doing, reluctance to 'do' in practice
sexual energy, working with
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
goals and effort
mindfulness, foundations of: fourth foundation
November Solitary
2
Working with Thought in Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10835/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
working with thought in practice
mindfulness, foundations of: third foundation (citta)
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
concepts/logos
concepts/logos: the place of ideas in practice
definitions: papanca
mindfulness, foundations of: second foundation (vedana)
emotions
labeling in practice
November Solitary
3
Sense Desire
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10833/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
sense pleasure
renunciation/letting go
judgment/inner critic
awakening
inquiring
sexuality/romantic relationships
authenticity
clarity/vividness as a stage or bandwidth of unfabricating
November Solitary
4
Living in the Truth
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10831/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
emptiness/insight: personal vs universal vs ultimate insight
three characteristics
views/orientations in practice
Middle Way of emptiness
inquiring
non-doing, reluctance to 'do' in practice
oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.)
emptiness/insight: fading or logic and analysis as ways in
November Solitary
5
Maya and Nirvana (Beyond the Measure of Mind)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10832/
emptiness/insight
dukkha: based on belief in reality of things
the Unfabricated
self-views, noticing and practicing with
kilesas
holy discontent, holy disinterest
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Day Retreat, London Insight
1
Freedom from Fear and Anxiety (Part One)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2008-12-07-freedom-from-fear-and-anxiety-part-one
emptiness/insight
emotions
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
generosity
Day Retreat, London Insight
2
Freedom from Fear and Anxiety (Part Two)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2008-12-07-freedom-from-fear-and-anxiety-part-two
emptiness/insight
emotions
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
metta
judgment/inner critic
New Year Retreat
1
Opening Talk for Stillness and Insight Retreat
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/44/talk/10812/
other topics
depths and dimensions of silence
precepts
New Year Retreat
2
The Meaning of Refuge
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10834/
other topics
taking refuge
aging/sickness/death
inquiring
eightfold path
views/orientations in practice
New Year Retreat
3
Beyond Impermanence
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10830/
emptiness/insight
three characteristics
impermanence (anicca)
aging/sickness/death
holy discontent, holy disinterest
the Unfabricated
Practice: Neither one nor many
Meditation on Emptiness
1
Emptiness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11121/
emptiness/insight
intro/overview
emptiness: what is emptiness?
emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness
dukkha: based on belief in reality of things
emptiness that's easy to see
emptiness: dependence on mind, mind's dependence
emptiness/insight: relationship of conventional reality with emptiness
emptiness/insight: doubts/concerns in or about practice
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
compassion, three levels of
Meditation on Emptiness
2
Samadhi in the Practice of Emptiness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11131/
emptiness/insight
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
definitions: samadhi
samadhi: relationship of samatha and insight
practice schedules / balancing different practices
samadhi: focus on one object or a wider open field
samadhi: qualities practice develops (refinement, patience, mindfulness, etc.)
samadhi: benefits of practice, samadhi as resource
samadhi: dependent on and leading to happiness
hindrances
working with tiredness / dullness
samadhi: using the body to navigate
meditation object: focusing on one point
energy body
Meditation on Emptiness
3
The Sense of Self
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11134/
emptiness/insight
self-views, noticing and practicing with
emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world
emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness
personality level - working with reified self
emptiness/insight: dot-to-dot practice
judgment/inner critic
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
emptiness/insight: relationship of conventional reality with emptiness
Meditation on Emptiness
4
Guided Meditation on the Three Characteristics
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11124/
emptiness/insight
three characteristics
impermanence (anicca)
dukkha (suffering)
not-self (anatta)
Practice: welcoming/allowing
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
guided meditation on three characteristics
Meditation on Emptiness
5
Practising with the Three Characteristics
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11130/
emptiness/insight
three characteristics
aggregates (skandhas)
emptiness/insight: stepping-stones, insight building on insight
impermanence (anicca)
dukkha (suffering)
emptiness/insight: list of dukkha (suffering) practices
practice schedules / balancing different practices
working with tiredness / dullness
critique: rapid seeing of impermanence
emptiness: what is emptiness?
emptiness: dependence on mind, mind's dependence
labeling in practice
blame
non-doing, reluctance to 'do' in practice
holy discontent, holy disinterest
emptiness/insight: kink in the carpet phenomenon
Meditation on Emptiness
6
Exploring the Relationship with Practice
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11123/
emptiness/insight
goals and effort
goals and effort: elements of wise effort
aspiration: what blocks aspirations?
three characteristics
concepts/logos
emptiness/insight: pacing
judgment/inner critic
Meditation on Emptiness
7
Chandrakirti's Chariot and the Unfindable Self
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11118/
emptiness/insight
Practice: sevenfold reasoning (Chandrakirti)
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
not-self (anatta)
aggregates (skandhas)
metaphors: water, liquid
Meditation on Emptiness
8
Integrity and the Poetics of Unknowing
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11126/
emptiness/insight
views/orientations in practice
mindfulness
working with thought in practice
close investigation of experience / 'bare attention'
simplicity and simplism
concepts/logos
ethics/engagement
sila, samadhi, panna (aspects of the path)
mystical openings and experiences
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
Meditation on Emptiness
9
Guided Meditation - Cittamatra
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11125/
emptiness/insight
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
Practice: same substance as awareness
eyes open vs. eyes closed
Practice: opening to sounds and silence
Meditation on Emptiness
10
Cittamatra
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11119/
emptiness/insight
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
Practice: no difference in substance
Practice: same substance as awareness
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
three characteristics
dukkha: based on belief in reality of things
oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.)
jhana
jhana: satellite states
Meditation on Emptiness
11
Two Talks: 1- Mindfulness and Emptiness - The Foundations; 2- The Ending of the World
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11132/
emptiness/insight
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
mindfulness
working with pain / discomfort
holy discontent, holy disinterest
emptiness/insight: relationship of conventional reality with emptiness
clinging / craving, perception's dependence on
clinging / craving: practical approaches
not-self (anatta)
jhana
jhana: nothingness in seventh jhana
jhana: neither perception nor non-perception in eighth jhana
seeing unpleasant as pleasant or pain as pleasure
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
emptiness/insight: doubts/concerns in or about practice
equanimity
Meditation on Emptiness
12
Love, Karma, and Healing
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11127/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
compassion
karma
compassion, three levels of
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
qualities of attention: softness versus intensity
aggregates (skandhas)
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
emptiness/insight: fading or logic and analysis as ways in
purification / stored psychological material
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
awakening
Practice: compassion to ownerless mind moments
equanimity
equanimity in compassion practice
bodhicitta
Meditation on Emptiness
13
The Freedom of No-thing-ness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11133/
emptiness/insight
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
Practice: emptiness of parts and wholes
emptiness: dependence on mind, mind's dependence
aggregates (skandhas)
labeling in practice
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
walking meditation
Meditation on Emptiness
14
On the Nature of Mind
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11128/
emptiness/insight
emptiness/insight: the nature of mind or awareness
emptiness: dependence on mind, mind's dependence
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness
mind as a mirror metaphor
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
Mahamudra
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
Practice: mutual emptiness of consciousness and perception
holy discontent, holy disinterest
Meditation on Emptiness
15
Dependent Origination, Awareness, and Time
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11120/
emptiness/insight
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
emptiness/insight: the nature of mind or awareness
Practice: Neither one nor many
emptiness of time
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
Practice: diamond slivers analysis (Nagarjuna)
emptiness/insight: emptiness of impermanence
Practice: mutual emptiness of consciousness and perception
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
Meditation on Emptiness
16
The Unfabricated, The Deathless…
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11135/
emptiness/insight
the Unfabricated
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
samadhi: relationship of samatha and insight
emptiness/insight: doubts/concerns in or about practice
jhana
jhana: nothingness in seventh jhana
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
IMS Forest Refuge
1
What is 'Insight'?
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/6254/
emptiness/insight
emptiness/insight: how does insight deepen?
Middle Way of emptiness
emptiness/insight: personal vs universal vs ultimate insight
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
three characteristics
definitions: what is insight?
intro/overview
IMS Forest Refuge
2
Into the Depths of Silence
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/6275/
emptiness/insight
getting in touch with deeper priorities
depths and dimensions of silence
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
IMS Forest Refuge
3
No Self, No World
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/6300/
emptiness/insight
not-self (anatta)
emptiness/insight: moving on spectrum between self and not-self
Middle Way of emptiness
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
three characteristics
personality level - working with reified self
IMS Forest Refuge
4
Realizing the Nature of Mind
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/6349/
emptiness/insight
beyond spaciousness/the vastness of awareness
emptiness of time
Practice: Neither one nor many
mind as a mirror metaphor
emptiness/insight: the nature of mind or awareness
emptiness: dependence on mind, mind's dependence
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Unbinding the Heart
1
Opening the Sense of What's Possible
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9816/
other topics
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
views/orientations in practice
goals and effort
inquiring into and working with intentions
duty in Buddhadharma
bodhicitta
aspiration: what blocks aspirations?
judgment/inner critic
aging/sickness/death
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
precepts
ethics/engagement
Unbinding the Heart
2
Breath Meditation (1st Instructions and Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9812/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
breath meditation
practice as kindness
breath meditation: manipulating / playing with the breath
Unbinding the Heart
3
The Space of Awareness - Impermanence (1st Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9811/
emptiness/insight
three characteristics
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
practice as kindness
impermanence (anicca)
Unbinding the Heart
4
Liberation from the Inner Critic
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9815/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
inquiring
judgment/inner critic
emotions / mind states: anger
precision: what does 'precision' mean in practice?
emptiness/insight: dot-to-dot practice
self-views, noticing and practicing with
Practice: reflecting on positive qualities
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
emotions / mind states: shame or unworthiness
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
Unbinding the Heart
5
Breath Meditation (2nd Instructions/Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9818/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
breath meditation
breath meditation: breathing through different areas of the body
breath meditation: conceptions of the breath
working with pain / discomfort
samadhi: put pleasant/nice in connection with blockage/difficulty
Unbinding the Heart
6
The Space of Awareness - Silence (2nd Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9817/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
Practice: opening to sounds and silence
Unbinding the Heart
7
Blessing Life - The Power of the Generous Heart
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9810/
other topics
generosity
jhana
emptiness/insight: cementing and consolidating insights
emptiness/insight: how does insight deepen?
Practice: reflecting on positive qualities
karma
bodhicitta
Unbinding the Heart
8
Breath Meditation (3rd Instructions)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9821/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
breath meditation
hindrances
working with tiredness / dullness
goals and effort
qualities of attention: softness versus intensity
working with thought in practice
Unbinding the Heart
9
The Space of Awareness - Only Impressions in Awareness (3rd Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9820/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
Practice: opening to sounds and silence
Unbinding the Heart
10
The Self and Its Search for Security
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9819/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
personality level - working with reified self
generosity
ethics/engagement
self-views, noticing and practicing with
authenticity
emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world
emptiness/insight: cementing and consolidating insights
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness
Unbinding the Heart
11
Breath and Space - Reactivity, Emptiness, Piti (4th Instructions)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9814/
samadhi/jhana
piti
breath meditation
samadhi
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
mindfulness, foundations of: second foundation (vedana)
seeing unpleasant as pleasant or pain as pleasure
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
Unbinding the Heart
12
The Space of Awareness - Welcoming (4th Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9813/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
Practice: welcoming/allowing
Practice: opening to sounds and silence
clinging / craving: noticing and working with in body
Unbinding the Heart
13
Freedom, Reality, and the Razor's Edge
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9822/
emptiness/insight
working with subtle reification/self-identification
clarity/vividness as a stage or bandwidth of unfabricating
personality level - working with reified self
self-views, noticing and practicing with
emptiness/insight: unfabricating more after experience becomes subtle
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process
emptiness/insight: stepping-stones, insight building on insight
emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
the Unfabricated
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
emptiness/insight: fading or logic and analysis as ways in
beyond spaciousness/the vastness of awareness
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation
1
Joyful Effort
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10026/
other topics
goals and effort
desire/eros
goals and effort: elements of wise effort
faith
joy
working with tiredness / dullness
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation
2
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10027/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
Four Noble Truths
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
eightfold path
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
dukkha: based on belief in reality of things
emptiness/insight: doubts/concerns in or about practice
November Solitary
1
Truthfulness and Authenticity
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10030/
emptiness/insight
authenticity
ethics/engagement
judgment/inner critic
malleability of perception
desire/eros
inquiring
November Solitary
2
Emotions and Freedom
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10024/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
emotions
mindfulness, foundations of: third foundation (citta)
emotions / mind states: how to recognize mind states
central line mindfulness
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
mindfulness, foundations of: second foundation (vedana)
emotions / mind states: fearlessness in regard to emotions
labeling in practice
emotions: labelling/not labelling unfolds experience differently
emotions / mind states: feedback loops
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
November Solitary
3
The Wisdom of Non-Duality
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10028/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
views of the path
awakening
non-doing, reluctance to 'do' in practice
self-views, noticing and practicing with
Buddha-nature
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
not-self (anatta)
oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.)
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
awakening: emptiness / non-duality of nirvana and samsara
Day Retreat, London Insight
1
Working with Anger and Aversion (Part One)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2009-12-06-working-with-anger-and-aversion-part-one
emptiness/insight
emotions
emotions / mind states: anger
kilesas
Day Retreat, London Insight
2
Working with Anger and Aversion (Part Two)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2009-12-06-working-with-anger-and-aversion-part-two
emptiness/insight
emotions
emotions / mind states: anger
kilesas
communication, skill with
Right Speech
metta
New Year Retreat
1
Emptiness and Insight Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10025/
emptiness/insight
intro/overview
definitions: avijja
avijja (ignorance, fundamental delusion)
dukkha (suffering)
mindfulness
dukkha: based on belief in reality of things
emptiness/insight: reactions to hearing emptiness teachings
emptiness: what is emptiness?
views of the path
awakening
emptiness that's easy to see
emptiness/insight: dot-to-dot practice
Practice: emptiness of parts and wholes
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
labeling in practice
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
New Year Retreat
2
"There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground" (A Talk on Devotion)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10029/
other topics
devotion
wonder
mystical openings and experiences
Buddha-nature
prayer
Christian mysticism
renunciation/letting go
getting in touch with deeper priorities
desire/eros
the Unfabricated
Meditation on Emptiness
1
Opening Talk - Orienting and Relating to the Emptiness Retreat
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9549/
emptiness/insight
intro/overview
views/orientations in practice
Meditation on Emptiness
2
An Introduction to Emptiness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9539/
emptiness/insight
intro/overview
emptiness: what is emptiness?
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
dukkha: based on belief in reality of things
emptiness that's easy to see
emptiness/insight: dot-to-dot practice
emptiness: dependence on mind, mind's dependence
emptiness/insight: relationship of conventional reality with emptiness
Meditation on Emptiness
3
Samadhi and Insight (a few pointers)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9550/
emptiness/insight
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
definitions: samadhi
samadhi: relationship of samatha and insight
samadhi: qualities practice develops (refinement, patience, mindfulness, etc.)
samadhi: benefits of practice, samadhi as resource
samadhi: dependent on and leading to happiness
hindrances
practice schedules / balancing different practices
energy body
Meditation on Emptiness
4
The Experience of Self (Personality and Beyond)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9551/
emptiness/insight
self-views, noticing and practicing with
emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world
emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness
judgment/inner critic
personality level - working with reified self
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
Meditation on Emptiness
5
Guided Meditation: Three Characteristics
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9543/
emptiness/insight
three characteristics
guided meditation on three characteristics
impermanence (anicca)
not-self (anatta)
dukkha (suffering)
Meditation on Emptiness
6
Three Characteristics - Three Avenues to Freedom and Joy
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9555/
emptiness/insight
three characteristics
impermanence (anicca)
dukkha (suffering)
emptiness/insight: list of dukkha (suffering) practices
not-self (anatta)
working with tiredness / dullness
emptiness/insight: stepping-stones, insight building on insight
Meditation on Emptiness
7
A Wise Relationship to Practice
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9538/
emptiness/insight
goals and effort
goals and effort: elements of wise effort
three characteristics
judgment/inner critic
Meditation on Emptiness
8
The Seven-Fold Reasoning (The Self cannot be found anywhere)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9552/
emptiness/insight
Practice: sevenfold reasoning (Chandrakirti)
aggregates (skandhas)
not-self (anatta)
Meditation on Emptiness
9
Concepts, Views, Reality
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9540/
emptiness/insight
Middle Way of emptiness
awakening
concepts/logos
Meditation on Emptiness
10
Guided Meditation: The Vastness of Awareness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9544/
emptiness/insight
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
Meditation on Emptiness
11
Emptiness and the Vastness of Awareness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9542/
emptiness/insight
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
Practice: same substance as awareness
Meditation on Emptiness
12
Non-Duality and the Fading of Perception
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9548/
emptiness/insight
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
Meditation on Emptiness
13
Maps for the Journey (A Brief Overview)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9546/
emptiness/insight
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
three characteristics
Meditation on Emptiness
14
"To see no-thing is to see excellently"
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9556/
emptiness/insight
Practice: Neither one nor many
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Meditation on Emptiness
15
Love, Healing, and Emptiness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9545/
emptiness/insight
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
metta
compassion
karma
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
purification / stored psychological material
Meditation on Emptiness
16
No Mind
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9547/
emptiness/insight
emptiness/insight: the nature of mind or awareness
emptiness: dependence on mind, mind's dependence
Meditation on Emptiness
17
The Subtlety of Dependent Origination
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9553/
emptiness/insight
Practice: Neither one nor many
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Meditation on Emptiness
18
Dependent Cessation and the Unconditioned
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9541/
emptiness/insight
the Unfabricated
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Meditation on Emptiness
19
The Union of Appearance and Emptiness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9554/
emptiness/insight
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Middle Way of emptiness
karma
awakening: emptiness / non-duality of nirvana and samsara
emptiness/insight: relationship of conventional reality with emptiness
the Unfabricated
Cambridge Day Retreats
1
Liberation from the Inner Critic - Opening Talk
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2010-03-06-liberation-from-the-inner-critic-opening-talk
emptiness/insight
judgment/inner critic
personality level - working with reified self
inquiring
metta
Cambridge Day Retreats
2
Liberation from the Inner Critic - Dharma Talk
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2010-03-06-liberation-from-the-inner-critic-dharma-talk
emptiness/insight
judgment/inner critic
personality level - working with reified self
metta
metta: retraining the habits of mind
mindfulness
inquiring
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
Assorted Writings
1
Article: Giving Voice to Compassion
https://gaiahouse.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/newsletter-spring-2010.pdf
brahmaviharas
compassion
ethics/engagement
The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat
1
About Metta Practice
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9988/
brahmaviharas
metta
intro/overview
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
Buddha-nature
kilesas
guided reflections
guided meditation on metta
bodhicitta
The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat
2
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 1
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9983/
brahmaviharas
metta
metta to self
metta to easiest person / benefactor
metta: working with phrases
metta: ways of practicing without phrases
guided meditation on metta
metta: practicing with the body
walking meditation
The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat
3
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 2
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9984/
brahmaviharas
metta
metta: navigating (sailing) practice when smooth or difficult
metta: working with phrases
metta to friend
guided meditation on metta
The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat
4
Heart Work
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9982/
brahmaviharas
metta
metta: navigating (sailing) practice when smooth or difficult
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
emotions
metaphors: water, liquid
emotions, skill with
practice as kindness
wonder
metta: practicing with the body
metta: ways of practicing without phrases
The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat
5
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 3
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9985/
brahmaviharas
metta
metta: difficulty receiving love
metta to neutral person
sexual energy, working with
guided meditation on metta
The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat
6
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 4
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9986/
brahmaviharas
metta
metta to difficult person
guided meditation on metta
The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat
7
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 5
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9987/
brahmaviharas
metta
metta to all beings
guided meditation on metta
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
metta: practicing with the body
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat
8
Selflessness and a Life of Love
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9989/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
Practice: exchanging the happiness of self and other
bodhicitta
ethics/engagement
communication, skill with
malleability of perception
emptiness/insight: nothing independent of the way of looking
mystical openings and experiences
emotions / mind states: feedback loops
seeing as perfect
November Solitary
1
The Mystery of Vedana: A Key to Liberation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11502/
emptiness/insight
inquiring
mindfulness
awakening: inquiring into freedom at root or branch levels
mindfulness, foundations of: second foundation (vedana)
clinging / craving: noticing and working with in body
clinging / craving: practical approaches
sensitivity
impermanence (anicca)
Practice: welcoming/allowing
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
modern physics / quantum physics
November Solitary
2
The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11503/
other topics
personality level - working with reified self
emotions
emotions: increase energy in attention, decrease in emotion
emotions / mind states: differentiation
emotions / mind states: developing capacity to feel in body
sensitivity
Practice: noticing assumptions
inquiring
emotions / mind states: sadness, depression
blessing
self-views, noticing and practicing with
November Solitary
3
The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11505/
other topics
personality level - working with reified self
emotions
emotions: increase energy in attention, decrease in emotion
self-views, noticing and practicing with
inquiring
judgment/inner critic
emotions / mind states, resourcing and cultivating skillful
noticing/inhabiting power and strength
images: non-soulmaking uses of images
Jung: active imagination
images: dialogue in images
resourcing and healing through story
November Solitary
4
The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 3 - Dimensions of the Personal Journey)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11504/
other topics
personality level - working with reified self
emotions
mindfulness, foundations of: second foundation (vedana)
mindfulness
seeing as perfect
Four Noble Truths
avijja (ignorance, fundamental delusion)
not-self (anatta)
self-views, noticing and practicing with
emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness
sexuality/romantic relationships
critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process
desire/eros
Practice: Opening to the current of desire
kilesas
Day Retreat, London Insight
1
Ending the Inner Critic (1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/35159/
other topics
personality level - working with reified self
judgment/inner critic
metta
mindfulness
inquiring
Day Retreat, London Insight
2
Ending the Inner Critic (2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/35161/
other topics
mindfulness
inquiring
personality level - working with reified self
judgment/inner critic
noticing/inhabiting power and strength
Day Retreat, London Insight
3
Ending the Inner Critic (3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/35160/
other topics
mindfulness
inquiring
personality level - working with reified self
judgment/inner critic
Practice: reflecting on positive qualities
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
New Year Retreat
1
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation (Metta for Friend and Benefactor)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2010-12-30-metta-instructions-and-guided-meditation-metta-for-friend-and-benefactor
brahmaviharas
metta
metta: working with categories
metta to friend
metta to easiest person / benefactor
guided meditation on metta
New Year Retreat
2
Liberation and the Self - A Guided Inquiry
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11968/
other topics
inquiring
awakening
concepts/logos
concepts/logos: possible meditations on ideas
New Year Retreat
3
Instructions on the Mindfulness of Thought
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11967/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness
mindfulness, foundations of: third foundation (citta)
working with thought in practice
labeling in practice
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
1
Opening Talk for Metta and Emptiness (Level 1): Being on Retreat
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12523/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
guided energy body meditation
practice as kindness
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
2
First Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12516/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
guided meditation on metta
metta to self
metta to easiest person / benefactor
metta: working with phrases
metta: ways of practicing without phrases
walking meditation
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
3
Freeing the Self
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12521/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
self-views, noticing and practicing with
personality level - working with reified self
working with subtle reification/self-identification
Four Noble Truths
critique: emptiness as disappointing or bleak
emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
4
Second Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12524/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
guided meditation on metta
hindrances
metta: navigating (sailing) practice when smooth or difficult
metta: working with phrases
metta: practicing with the body
metta to self
metta to easiest person / benefactor
energy body
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
5
Refining the Metta Practice (Question and Answer Session 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12518/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
inertia
metta: informal or off-cushion practice
energy body
oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.)
malleability of perception
working with pain / discomfort
metta to friend
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
6
Fourth Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12519/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
samadhi
energy body
metta: navigating (sailing) practice when smooth or difficult
working with pain / discomfort
samadhi: aspects of samadhi (well-being, focus, energization, etc.)
samadhi and insight: order of practice
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
metta: practicing with the body
metta: ways of practicing without phrases
guided meditation on metta
guided imagination meditation
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
7
Ending Blame
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12514/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
blame
personality level - working with reified self
emotions
emptiness/insight: examining inner and outer conditions
views/orientations in practice
self-views, noticing and practicing with
sexuality/romantic relationships
emotions / mind states: shame or unworthiness
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
8
Fifth Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12515/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
metta to neutral person
guided meditation on metta
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
9
Question and Answer Session 2
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12525/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
metta: navigating (sailing) practice when smooth or difficult
clinging / craving: practical approaches
working with pain / discomfort
gratitude and appreciation
emptiness: what is emptiness?
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
jhana
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
10
Seventh Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation: Metta and Emptiness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12526/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
metta to all beings
emptiness/insight: cementing and consolidating insights
emptiness/insight: how does insight deepen?
inquiring
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
11
Contact and the Construction of Self
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12513/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
self-views, noticing and practicing with
emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world
close investigation of experience / 'bare attention'
goals and effort
non-doing, reluctance to 'do' in practice
avijja (ignorance, fundamental delusion)
mindfulness, foundations of: second foundation (vedana)
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
12
Ways of Looking: (1) Anicca
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12529/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
three characteristics
impermanence (anicca)
definitions: what is insight?
emptiness/insight: list of impermanence (anicca) practices
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
13
Impermanence, Love, Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12528/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
three characteristics
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
emptiness/insight: doubts/concerns in or about practice
oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.)
beyond spaciousness/the vastness of awareness
jhana
emptiness/insight: emptiness of impermanence
goals and effort
impermanence (anicca)
self-views, noticing and practicing with
purification / stored psychological material
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
14
Ways of Looking: (2) Dukkha
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12531/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
three characteristics
emptiness/insight: list of dukkha (suffering) practices
dukkha (suffering)
holy discontent, holy disinterest
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
15
Deepening Into Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 4)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12520/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
working with sense of lack
awakening
self-views, noticing and practicing with
Middle Way of emptiness
emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness
modern physics / quantum physics
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
emptiness/insight: relationship of conventional reality with emptiness
equanimity
oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.)
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
16
Ways of Looking: (3) Anatta
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12530/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
three characteristics
not-self (anatta)
Middle Way of emptiness
aggregates (skandhas)
critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process
emptiness/insight: list of anatta (emptiness of self) practices
emptiness/insight: kink in the carpet phenomenon
non-doing, reluctance to 'do' in practice
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
17
Questioning Reality (Question and Answer Session 5)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12517/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
concepts/logos: the place of ideas in practice
not-self (anatta)
aggregates (skandhas)
working with subtle reification/self-identification
clarity/vividness as a stage or bandwidth of unfabricating
emptiness of time
emptiness/insight: working with flatness, disconnection
desire/eros
working with pain / discomfort
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
kilesas
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
emptiness/insight: stepping-stones, insight building on insight
three characteristics
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
18
Question and Answer Session 6
n/a
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
dukkha: based on belief in reality of things
aging/sickness/death
overestimating effect of mind on body, health, illness
malleability of perception
not-self (anatta)
ways of looking, subtexts in
working with thought in practice
Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)
19
Guided Meditation - The Play of Appearances
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12522/
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
Practice: welcoming/allowing
Assorted Writings
1
An Open Letter and Proposal to All Who Are Involved in the Dharma
https://www.sanghaseva.org/info/ClimateChange.html
other topics
ethics/engagement
The Boundless Heart
1
Reflections on the Retreat and on the Path
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/13849/
other topics
getting in touch with deeper priorities
practice as kindness
views/orientations in practice
desire/eros
emotions
The Boundless Heart
2
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day One)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/13853/
other topics
emotions
emotions: increase energy in attention, decrease in emotion
emotions: range, ability to be with, unknotting, confidence
emotions / mind states: what are mind states or emotions?
practice as kindness
central line mindfulness
guided practice with the emotional body
The Boundless Heart
3
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Two)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/13857/
other topics
emotions
energy body
working with tiredness / dullness
working with pain / discomfort
qualities of attention: softness versus intensity
emotions / mind states: attending to calmness or 'not much going on'
practice as kindness
guided practice with the emotional body
The Boundless Heart
4
The Meditator as Revolutionary
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/13850/
other topics
ethics/engagement
developing capacity to feel the pain of our times
societal influence on extrinsic/intrinsic values
emotions / mind states: differentiating fear from concern
emotions / mind states: anger as energized responsiveness
emptiness/insight: how insight and taking risks feed each other
views/orientations in practice
fantasies of the path
emotions
images: early talks on images
The Boundless Heart
5
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Three)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/13856/
other topics
emotions
energy body
emotions: labelling/not labelling unfolds experience differently
Practice: noticing assumptions
seeing as perfect
emotions: increase energy in attention, decrease in emotion
Practice: chopping off past and future
guided practice with the emotional body
The Boundless Heart
6
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Four)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/13852/
other topics
emotions
practice as kindness
energy body
Practice: opening to sounds and silence
central line mindfulness
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
guided practice with the emotional body
The Boundless Heart
7
At Home in the Universe
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/13848/
emptiness/insight
other topics
ways practice can bring sense of at-homeness, belonging
emotions / mind states: fearlessness in regard to emotions
societal influence on extrinsic/intrinsic values
working skilfully with individualism and identity
existentialist Dharma
mystical sense of home / at-homeness in existence
emptiness/insight: nothing independent of the way of looking
views/orientations in practice
fantasies of the path
personality level - working with reified self
emotions
The Boundless Heart
8
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Five)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/13851/
other topics
emotions
emotions / mind states, resourcing and cultivating skillful
noticing/inhabiting power and strength
judgment/inner critic
energy body
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
The Boundless Heart
9
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Six)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/13855/
other topics
emotions
practice as kindness
Practice: welcoming/allowing
emotions / mind states: relationship of aversion and heart closing
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
central line mindfulness
energy body
guided practice with the emotional body
The Boundless Heart
10
A Mystical Kiss (...for Mystics, Anti-Mystics, Lovers, and Realists...)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/13846/
emptiness/insight
other topics
mystical experiences: what are they?
via negativa and via positiva
sanctification: what's involved in sanctifying life?
reverence: what blocks and unblocks reverence?
emptiness/insight: nothing independent of the way of looking
fantasy as a holy mystery of being
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
wonder
The Boundless Heart
11
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Seven)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/13854/
other topics
emotions
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
noticing/inhabiting power and strength
personality level - working with reified self
The Boundless Heart
12
Am I Free to Inquire?
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/13847/
other topics
emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world
inquiring: what blocks questioning?
how questioning brings energy and dynamism
emotions: the relevance of ideas to heart work
open-endedness in the Dharma
views/orientations in practice
emotions
Cambridge Day Retreats
1
Beauty of Desire - Intro
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2011-09-24-beauty-of-desire-intro
other topics
desire/eros
desire/eros: does desire always bring suffering?
guided inquiry into desire
inner critic arising in connection to deep longing
inquiring
faith
devotion
Cambridge Day Retreats
2
Beauty of Desire - Talk
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2011-09-24-beauty-of-desire-talk
other topics
desire/eros
Practice: Opening to the current of desire
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
working with sense of lack
desire/eros: fulfilment from allowing deep desire to flow
desire/eros: expansion of sense of self through desire
inquiring
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
emotions / mind states: differentiation
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
November Solitary
1
Opening Talk for the November Solitary Retreat
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/44/talk/14580/
other topics
precepts
depths and dimensions of silence
November Solitary
2
Instructions on Mindfulness of the Body
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/14584/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness, foundations of: first foundation (body)
close investigation of experience / 'bare attention'
working with pain / discomfort
mindfulness
three characteristics
November Solitary
3
Instructions on Mindfulness of Mind States
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/14585/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness, foundations of: third foundation (citta)
emotions / mind states: what are mind states or emotions?
emotions / mind states: how to recognize mind states
emotions / mind states: fearlessness in regard to emotions
emotions / mind states, resourcing and cultivating skillful
mindfulness
emotions
November Solitary
4
Body/Image - A Guided Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/14583/
emptiness/insight
mindfulness, foundations of: first foundation (body)
guided imagination meditation
mindfulness
November Solitary
5
The Beauty of Desire (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/14586/
other topics
desire/eros
desire/eros: does desire always bring suffering?
guided inquiry into desire
inner critic arising in connection to deep longing
desire/eros: empowerment through following desire
fantasies of the path
inquiring
renunciation/letting go
November Solitary
6
The Beauty of Desire (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/14587/
other topics
desire/eros
Practice: Opening to the current of desire
desire/eros: fulfilment from allowing deep desire to flow
desire/eros: expansion of sense of self through desire
working with sense of lack
fantasies of the path
inquiring
renunciation/letting go
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
emotions / mind states: differentiation
Day Retreat, London Insight
1
Introduction and Guided Enquiry
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2011-12-04-introduction-and-guided-enquiry
other topics
inquiring
desire/eros
desire/eros: does desire always bring suffering?
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
Dharma talk listening tips: listening for what's new
inner critic arising in connection to deep longing
guided inquiry into desire
Day Retreat, London Insight
2
Guided Breath and Whole Body Meditation
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2011-12-04-guided-breath-and-whole-body-meditation
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
energy body
breath meditation
guided meditation on the breath
guided meditation: breathing with the energy body
Day Retreat, London Insight
3
Aspects of Working with Desire
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2011-12-04-aspects-of-working-with-desire
other topics
desire/eros
Practice: Opening to the current of desire
desire/eros: fulfilment from allowing deep desire to flow
desire/eros: expansion of sense of self through desire
working with sense of lack
fantasies of the path
inquiring
renunciation/letting go
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
Day Retreat, London Insight
4
Walking Instructions
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2011-12-04-walking-instructions
other topics
mindfulness
walking meditation
New Year Retreat
1
This Matter of Emptiness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/15324/
emptiness/insight
intro/overview
awakening
emptiness: what is emptiness?
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
self-views, noticing and practicing with
not-self (anatta)
avijja (ignorance, fundamental delusion)
emptiness/insight: fading or logic and analysis as ways in
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
dukkha: based on belief in reality of things
emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness
emptiness/insight: the nature of mind or awareness
emptiness of time
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
Mahayana
views of the path
Cambridge Day Retreats
1
Working with Anger and Aversion (Introduction)
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/audio-from-rob-burbea-day-retreat-2012/
emptiness/insight
emotions / mind states: anger
noticing/inhabiting power and strength
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
mindfulness
Right Speech
emotions
kilesas
Cambridge Day Retreats
2
Guided Breath Meditation (Spacious)
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/audio-from-rob-burbea-day-retreat-2012/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
guided meditation on the breath
breath meditation
Cambridge Day Retreats
3
Working with Anger and Aversion (Dharma Talk)
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/audio-from-rob-burbea-day-retreat-2012/
emptiness/insight
emotions / mind states: anger
mindfulness
emotions
emotions: the relevance of ideas to heart work
inquiring
kilesas
self-views, noticing and practicing with
views/orientations in practice
Practice: welcoming/allowing
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Assorted Writings
1
Article: Waking Up In (Our Own) Time
https://gaiahouse.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/newsletter-spring-2012.pdf
other topics
ethics/engagement
November Solitary
1
The Place of Calm
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/17962/
samadhi/jhana
samadhi
desire/eros
images: early talks on images
samadhi: aspects of samadhi (well-being, focus, energization, etc.)
samadhi: qualities practice develops (refinement, patience, mindfulness, etc.)
samadhi: how and why it develops
samadhi: dependent on and leading to happiness
gratitude and appreciation
samadhi: modulating effort level in attention/concentration
clinging / craving: noticing and working with in body
samadhi: benefits of practice, samadhi as resource
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
clarity/vividness as a stage or bandwidth of unfabricating
mystical openings and experiences
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
November Solitary
2
Thoughts and Images in Meditation
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/17963/
other topics
working with thought in practice
images: early talks on images
samadhi: modulating effort level in attention/concentration
labeling in practice
inquiring
emotions
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
concepts/logos
views/orientations in practice
concepts and ideas are present in all perception
dukkha: based on belief in reality of things
November Solitary
3
Question and Answer Session
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2012-11-13-question-and-answer-session
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
samadhi
mindfulness
emptiness/insight: the nature of mind or awareness
Practice: spacious or vast awareness
Practice: same substance as awareness
Practice: mutual emptiness of consciousness and perception
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
emptiness/insight: liberating insight without cessation
Practice: welcoming/allowing
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
metta towards phenomena
self-views, noticing and practicing with
November Solitary
4
Approaching the Dharma: Part One - Unbinding the World
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/17960/
emptiness/insight
intro/overview
the Unfabricated
views of the path
Dharma talk listening tips: listening for what's new
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
Bahiya Sutta
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
definitions: avijja
avijja (ignorance, fundamental delusion)
not-self (anatta)
emptiness/insight: house of cards analogy
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence
emptiness/insight: the nature of mind or awareness
phenomenological approach to meditation
November Solitary
5
Approaching the Dharma: Part Two - Liberating Ways of Looking
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/17961/
emptiness/insight
intro/overview
definitions: what is insight?
concepts/logos: importance of supportive conceptual frameworks
emptiness/insight: personal vs universal vs ultimate insight
emptiness/insight: emptiness of impermanence
emptiness/insight: navigating insight practice with the body
emptiness/insight: insight as a result or a starting point
views of the path
impermanence (anicca)
three characteristics
dukkha (suffering)
not-self (anatta)
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
Four Noble Truths
emptiness/insight: stepping-stones, insight building on insight
clarity/vividness as a stage or bandwidth of unfabricating
dukkha: based on belief in reality of things
emptiness: dependence on mind, mind's dependence
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
Day Retreat, London Insight
1
The Wonder of Emptiness - Seeing That Frees (Part One)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2012-12-09-the-wonder-of-emptiness-seeing-that-frees-part-one
emptiness/insight
emptiness: what is emptiness?
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
Day Retreat, London Insight
2
The Wonder of Emptiness - Seeing That Frees (Part Two)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2012-12-09-the-wonder-of-emptiness-seeing-that-frees-part-two
emptiness/insight
avijja (ignorance, fundamental delusion)
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
dukkha (suffering)
blame
emptiness/insight: examining inner and outer conditions
self-views, noticing and practicing with
personality level - working with reified self
Day Retreat, London Insight
3
The Wonder of Emptiness - Seeing That Frees (Part Three)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2012-12-09-the-wonder-of-emptiness-seeing-that-frees-part-three
emptiness/insight
personality level - working with reified self
self-views, noticing and practicing with
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
impermanence (anicca)
critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process
not-self (anatta)
emptiness/insight: dot-to-dot practice
New Year Retreat
1
The Necessity of Fantasy
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/18111/
other topics
images: early talks on images
ethics/engagement
fantasies of the path
views of the path
simplicity and simplism
karma
conceptions of dukkha and the Four Noble Truths
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
Cambridge Day Retreats
1
The Wonder of Emptiness - Seeing That Frees (Introduction)
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/rob-burbea-audio-2013/
emptiness/insight
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
emptiness: what is emptiness?
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
definitions: papanca
Cambridge Day Retreats
2
The Wonder of Emptiness - Seeing That Frees (Part One)
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/rob-burbea-audio-2013/
emptiness/insight
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
definitions: avijja
blame
self-views, noticing and practicing with
emptiness/insight: examining inner and outer conditions
ways of looking, flexibility in
emptiness/insight: moving on spectrum between self and not-self
Cambridge Day Retreats
3
Guided Meditation
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/rob-burbea-audio-2013/
emptiness/insight
guided practice with the emotional body
guided practice on blame
emptiness/insight: examining inner and outer conditions
Cambridge Day Retreats
4
Moving Meditation
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/rob-burbea-audio-2013/
emptiness/insight
guided practice or instructions on voice / movement
Cambridge Day Retreats
5
The Wonder of Emptiness - Seeing That Frees (Part Two)
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/rob-burbea-audio-2013/
emptiness/insight
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
self-views, noticing and practicing with
three characteristics
impermanence (anicca)
not-self (anatta)
emptiness/insight: dot-to-dot practice
emptiness/insight: stepping-stones, insight building on insight
ways of looking, flexibility in
Cambridge Day Retreats
6
Questions and Answers
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/rob-burbea-audio-2013/
emptiness/insight
emptiness/insight: examining inner and outer conditions
emptiness/insight: cultivating or deconstructing well-being
emptiness/insight: doubts/concerns in or about practice
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
ways of looking, flexibility in
blame
emotions / mind states: developing capacity to feel in body
November Solitary
1
Wise Responses to the Hindrances
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21822/
samadhi/jhana
hindrances
goals and effort
samadhi
samadhi: how and why it develops
sexual energy, working with
emotions / mind states: anger
emotions / mind states: boredom
working with tiredness / dullness
November Solitary
2
The Theatre of Selves (Part One)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21819/
imaginal/soulmaking
emptiness/insight: list of anatta (emptiness of self) practices
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
not-self (anatta)
desire/eros
concepts/logos
judgment/inner critic
critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process
images: what is an image?
inner critic, imaginal practice with
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
November Solitary
3
The Theatre of Selves (Part Two)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21821/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
not-self (anatta)
images: archetypal
concepts/logos
metta
Middle Way of the imaginal
images: how to get images
mindfulness
soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
images: using the energy body to navigate
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
images: love in and from images
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
cosmopoesis
images: what is an image?
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
November Solitary
4
The Theatre of Selves (Part Three)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/21820/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
soulmaking and emptiness: basis of non-realism
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
not-self (anatta)
images: archetypal
concepts/logos
concepts and ideas are present in all perception
concepts/logos: importance of supportive conceptual frameworks
concepts/logos: ways logos can be too limited
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
images: non-soulmaking uses of images
soulmaking: the student/teacher relationship
soulmaking: demands from imaginal figures
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
image as primary
metaphors: water, liquid
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
Day Retreat, London Insight
1
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 1)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2013-12-08-releasing-the-self-freeing-its-demons-part-1
imaginal/soulmaking
judgment/inner critic
images: early talks on images
critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process
simplicity and simplism
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
self-views, noticing and practicing with
inner critic, imaginal practice with
Day Retreat, London Insight
2
Guided Meditation
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2013-12-08-guided-meditation
imaginal/soulmaking
guided meditation on the breath
guided energy body meditation
walking meditation
Day Retreat, London Insight
3
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 2)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2013-12-08-releasing-the-self-freeing-its-demons-part-2
imaginal/soulmaking
inner critic, imaginal practice with
judgment/inner critic
images: early talks on images
images: archetypal
self-views, noticing and practicing with
art and soul
Middle Way of the imaginal
images: what is an image?
mindfulness
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
Day Retreat, London Insight
4
Standing Meditation
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2013-12-08-standing-meditation
imaginal/soulmaking
mindfulness
guided standing meditation
Day Retreat, London Insight
5
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 3)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2013-12-08-releasing-the-self-freeing-its-demons-part-3
imaginal/soulmaking
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
desire/eros
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
soulmaking: demands from imaginal figures
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
images: using the energy body to navigate
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
repression / suppression
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
concepts/logos: importance of supportive conceptual frameworks
Interview
1
Buzz Tour Interview
https://vimeo.com/131864790
other topics
ethics/engagement
emotions / mind states, resourcing and cultivating skillful
emotions, skill with
activism and engagement: working with burnout
mindfulness
Cambridge Day Retreats
1
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 1)
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/audio-rob-burbea-2014/
imaginal/soulmaking
critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process
simplicity and simplism
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
judgment/inner critic
inner critic, imaginal practice with
self-views, noticing and practicing with
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
images: early talks on images
Cambridge Day Retreats
2
Guided Meditation
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/audio-rob-burbea-2014/
imaginal/soulmaking
guided energy body meditation
guided meditation on the breath
Cambridge Day Retreats
3
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 2)
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/audio-rob-burbea-2014/
imaginal/soulmaking
judgment/inner critic
inner critic, imaginal practice with
self-views, noticing and practicing with
Middle Way of the imaginal
images: what is an image?
art and soul
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
images: early talks on images
Cambridge Day Retreats
4
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 3)
https://cambridgedayretreats.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/audio-rob-burbea-2014/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
energy body
images: using the energy body to navigate
concepts/logos
soulmaking: demands from imaginal figures
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
Hillman, James
image as primary
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
definitions: soulfulness
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
concepts/logos: importance of supportive conceptual frameworks
images: early talks on images
Conversation with Rabbi Raphael Zarum
1
When Moshe Met the Buddha
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2014-09-28-when-moshe-met-the-buddha
other topics
Rob biographical
fantasies of the path
aging/sickness/death
karma
faith
Four Noble Truths
metaphysics
desire/eros
Day Retreat, London Insight
1
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/28026/
imaginal/soulmaking
inner critic, imaginal practice with
images: early talks on images
judgment/inner critic
desire/eros
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
simplicity and simplism
self-views, noticing and practicing with
soulmaking, duty in
critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
Day Retreat, London Insight
2
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/28028/
imaginal/soulmaking
inner critic, imaginal practice with
images: early talks on images
images: archetypal
judgment/inner critic
mindfulness
Middle Way of the imaginal
images: what is an image?
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
self-views, noticing and practicing with
Day Retreat, London Insight
3
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/28027/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
desire/eros
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing
mindfulness
images: using the energy body to navigate
soulmaking: demands from imaginal figures
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
images: asking what images want from us
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
definitions: soulfulness
definitions: soul
repression / suppression
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
concepts/logos: importance of supportive conceptual frameworks
November Solitary
1
Creative Samadhi
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/26008/
samadhi/jhana
guided energy body meditation
samadhi
energy body
views/orientations in practice
views of the path
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
definitions: energy body
breath meditation
goals and effort
definitions: what is insight?
definitions: samadhi
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
November Solitary
2
Questioning Awakening
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/26010/
other topics
views of the path
inquiring
awakening
Four Noble Truths
conceptions of dukkha and the Four Noble Truths
views/orientations in practice
concepts/logos
existentialist Dharma
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
metaphysics
metaphyics: ultimately unprovable assumptions
concepts and ideas are present in all perception
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
images: early talks on images
November Solitary
3
Buddhism Beyond Modernism
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/26007/
other topics
views/orientations in practice
awakening
Four Noble Truths
metaphysics
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
views of the path
inquiring
modern physics / quantum physics
breaking of the vessels (Shevirat ha-Kelim)
imaginal practice: beyond or within Buddhadharma?
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
causality, questioning notions of
image as primary
Hermes
November Solitary
4
In Praise of Restlessness
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/26009/
other topics
inquiring
fantasies of the path
metaphysics
Four Noble Truths
images: early talks on images
breaking of the vessels (Shevirat ha-Kelim)
homelessness on the path
Hermes
awakening
awakening as open-ended
awakening: stream-entry, stages of awakening
views of the path
Corbin, Henry
Hillman, James
Jung
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
Day Retreat, Bodhi Tree Brighton
1
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part One)
http://www.bodhitreebrighton.org.uk/audio/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: early talks on images
images: examples of navigating an image
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
sexuality/romantic relationships
images: subtle vs dramatic / intense
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
Day Retreat, Bodhi Tree Brighton
2
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Two)
http://www.bodhitreebrighton.org.uk/audio/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
mindfulness, unfabricating, skillful fabrication
metaphysics
images: early talks on images
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
modern physics / quantum physics
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
Descartes
Vajrayana
Mahayana
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
Day Retreat, Bodhi Tree Brighton
3
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Three)
http://www.bodhitreebrighton.org.uk/audio/
imaginal/soulmaking
energy body
definitions: energy body
images: using the energy body to navigate
image as primary
causality, questioning notions of
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
images: early talks on images
fantasies of the path
Four Noble Truths
concepts/logos
metaphysics
Day Retreat, Bodhi Tree Brighton
4
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Four)
http://www.bodhitreebrighton.org.uk/audio/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: early talks on images
Four Noble Truths
conceptions of dukkha and the Four Noble Truths
metaphysics
fantasies of the path
metaphyics: ultimately unprovable assumptions
image as primary
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
soulmaking and emptiness
art and soul
Day Retreat, London Insight
1
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part One)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/27490/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: early talks on images
images: examples of navigating an image
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
sexuality/romantic relationships
images: subtle vs dramatic / intense
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
Day Retreat, London Insight
2
Guided Meditation 1
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/27488/
imaginal/soulmaking
energy body
guided energy body meditation
Day Retreat, London Insight
3
Walking Meditation Instructions
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2014-12-07-walking-meditation-instructions
imaginal/soulmaking
energy body
walking meditation
Day Retreat, London Insight
4
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Two)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/27492/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
mindfulness, unfabricating, skillful fabrication
metaphysics
images: early talks on images
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
modern physics / quantum physics
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
Descartes
Vajrayana
Mahayana
Day Retreat, London Insight
5
Guided Meditation 2
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2014-12-07-guided-meditation-2
imaginal/soulmaking
guided energy body meditation
guided imaginal practice
guided imagination meditation
energy body
Day Retreat, London Insight
6
Q&A (am)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2014-12-07-qa-am
imaginal/soulmaking
energy body
sexual energy, working with
images: early talks on images
sexuality/romantic relationships
soulmaking and dukkha
soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking: how trust and distrust color images
images: using the energy body to navigate
Day Retreat, London Insight
7
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Three)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/27491/
imaginal/soulmaking
image as primary
fantasies of the path
metaphysics
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
images: non-soulmaking uses of images
soulmaking: demands from imaginal figures
causality, questioning notions of
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
conceptual frameworks, flexibility with
Four Noble Truths
clinging / craving: limitations of common approaches
art and soul
Day Retreat, London Insight
8
Q&A (pm)
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2014-12-07-qa-pm
imaginal/soulmaking
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
samadhi
energy body
image as primary
images: early talks on images
soulmaking: how trust and distrust color images
images arising through body / energy body
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
images: using the energy body to navigate
Assorted Writings
1
The Buddha and the Sacred Earth
http://www.thedancewebsite.org/resources/buddha-sacred-earth/
emptiness/insight
ethics/engagement
Buddhist Geeks Podcast
1
Climate Change is Happening on our Watch
http://art19.com/shows/buddhist-geeks/episodes/31c19146-c927-4dd8-a25f-58bafe9a3ae5
other topics
ethics/engagement
conceptions of dukkha and the Four Noble Truths
fantasies of the path
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
simplicity and simplism
Path of the Imaginal
1
Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31529/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: non-soulmaking uses of images
soulmaking: what draws people to imaginal practice?
concepts/logos
metaphysics
midrash
images: expanding one's range of image and fantasy
soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
Fairbairn, W.R.D.
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
images: early talks on images
Path of the Imaginal
2
Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31530/
imaginal/soulmaking
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
soulmaking: different imaginal frameworks (Burbea, Hillman, etc.)
soulmaking: self-orientation vs. divine orientation
cosmopoesis
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
imaginal practice: beyond or within Buddhadharma?
soulmaking and emptiness
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
Four Noble Truths
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
Dharma talk listening tips: listening for what's new
views of the path
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
Path of the Imaginal
3
Energy Body: Instructions (1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31525/
imaginal/soulmaking
guided energy body meditation
definitions: energy body
energy body
samadhi
emotions
images: early talks on images
working with pain / discomfort
mindfulness, foundations of: first foundation (body)
samadhi: developing well-being, happiness, nourishment
sensitivity
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing
sizes or scopes of attention (narrow, energy body, vast)
awareness: what causes awareness to shrink?
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
images: examples of navigating an image
Path of the Imaginal
4
Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31527/
imaginal/soulmaking
samadhi: developing well-being, happiness, nourishment
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
samadhi
energy body
emotions
awareness: what causes awareness to shrink?
working with pain / discomfort
emotions: big-picture reasons for practicing with
images: early talks on images
central line mindfulness
emotions: increase energy in attention, decrease in emotion
hindrances
working with tiredness / dullness
images: in relation to difficult emotions
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
images: the otherness of imaginal images
Practice: welcoming/allowing
Path of the Imaginal
5
Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31528/
imaginal/soulmaking
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
images: in relation to difficult emotions
energy body
emotions
image as primary
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
emotions / mind states: anger
emotions / mind states: anger as energized responsiveness
images: expanding one's range of image and fantasy
images: a warrior without an enemy
emotions / mind states: how views/assumptions affect practice
ways of looking, flexibility in
views of the path
soulmaking and emptiness
images: emptiness of images, and flexibility of view
Path of the Imaginal
6
Energy Body: Instructions (2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31526/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
emotions
energy body
images: early talks on images
practice schedules / balancing different practices
emotions / mind states: what are mind states or emotions?
emotions: big-picture reasons for practicing with
central line mindfulness
emotions: increase energy in attention, decrease in emotion
emotions / mind states: attending to calmness or 'not much going on'
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
seeing as perfect
images: expanding one's range of image and fantasy
awareness: what causes awareness to shrink?
Practice: welcoming/allowing
images: love in and from images
Path of the Imaginal
7
A Little Exercise for the Imagination
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31519/
imaginal/soulmaking
guided imagination meditation
images: early talks on images
images: what is an image?
Path of the Imaginal
8
What is an 'Image'? (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31538/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: what is an image?
images: examples of navigating an image
images: non-soulmaking uses of images
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
concepts/logos
nada sound
images: early talks on images
soulmaking: devotional erotic-imaginal
images: noticing and trusting an image's sense door
images: dialogue in images
definitions: soulfulness
Middle Way of the imaginal
eternality / timelessness
images: subtle vs dramatic / intense
soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum
soulmaking: pacing
images: archetypal
definitions: archetypal
Jung
Path of the Imaginal
9
What is an 'Image'? (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31539/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
images: what is an image?
images: archetypal
image as primary
causality, questioning notions of
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
Middle Way of the imaginal
breaking of the vessels (Shevirat ha-Kelim)
emotions / mind states: how views/assumptions affect practice
soulmaking and dukkha
images: life becoming image
soulmaking: the growing interfusion of life and image
Path of the Imaginal
10
Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31531/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: how to get images
images: early talks on images
energy body
metaphors: water, liquid
images: working with in meditation or grosser modalities
Path of the Imaginal
11
Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31533/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing
energy body
images: early talks on images
sensitivity
images: noticing and trusting an image's sense door
images: examples of navigating an image
images: specificity of images
images: using the energy body to navigate
devotion
prayer
eternality / timelessness
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
images: asking what images want from us
images: possibilities of what images want from us
images: love in and from images
Path of the Imaginal
12
Soulmaking (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31534/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: early talks on images
soul as an organ/entity or range of ways of looking
definitions: soul
definitions: soulfulness
definitions: soulmaking
soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing
Buddha-nature
mindfulness, unfabricating, skillful fabrication
modern physics / quantum physics
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
aging/sickness/death
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
views of the path
conceptual frameworks, flexibility with
not-self in imaginal practice vs classical anatta view
not-self (anatta)
Hillman, James
soulmaking and emptiness
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
Path of the Imaginal
13
Soulmaking (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31535/
imaginal/soulmaking
imaginal practice: beyond or within Buddhadharma?
mindfulness, unfabricating, skillful fabrication
self-views, noticing and practicing with
ways of looking, flexibility in
metaphysics: ontic status / different kinds of reality of perceptions
Four Noble Truths
soulmaking and dukkha
desire/eros
images: early talks on images
metaphysics
metaphyics: ultimately unprovable assumptions
soulmaking: how it can ease dukkha
definitions: eros
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
conceptual frameworks, flexibility with
Path of the Imaginal
14
Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31532/
imaginal/soulmaking
walking meditation
images: asking what images want from us
soulmaking: how it can ease dukkha
images: love in and from images
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
desire/eros
definitions: infinite echoing and mirroring
images: views and practices that prevent images arising
soulmaking: how trust and distrust color images
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking and dukkha
soulmaking: pacing
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum
Path of the Imaginal
15
The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31536/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: love in and from images
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
images: what is an image?
Middle Way of the imaginal
ethics/engagement
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
images: examples of navigating an image
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
desire/eros
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
soulmaking: how trust and distrust color images
emotions / mind states: shame or unworthiness
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking: retaining autonomy of self and other in imaginal practice
Path of the Imaginal
16
The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31537/
imaginal/soulmaking
Middle Way of the imaginal
the Unfabricated
soulmaking and emptiness
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
Kabbalah
Buddha-nature
Corbin, Henry
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
pothos in eros: always wanting more
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
Path of the Imaginal
17
Theophany and Cosmopoesis: Instructions
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31540/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: theophany
cosmopoesis
mindfulness, unfabricating, skillful fabrication
images: early talks on images
art and soul
depths and dimensions of silence
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
prayer
desire/eros
soulmaking: hearing imaginally
cosmopoesis: kinds of imaginal and non-imaginal cosmopoesis
cosmopoesis: how it develops and spreads
soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum
Path of the Imaginal
18
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31520/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
cosmopoesis
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
soulmaking and emptiness
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
modern physics / quantum physics
metaphysics
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
emptiness/insight: nothing independent of the way of looking
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
beauty, inquiring into
definitions: hermeneutics
soulmaking and emptiness: basis of non-realism
Path of the Imaginal
19
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31521/
imaginal/soulmaking
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
metaphysics: ontic status / different kinds of reality of perceptions
cosmopoesis
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
modern physics / quantum physics
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
the Unfabricated
soulmaking and emptiness
Vajrayana
etymologies, root words, and phonetic associations
Path of the Imaginal
20
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31522/
imaginal/soulmaking
definitions: divinity (or God or Buddha-nature)
soulmaking and emptiness
cosmopoesis
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
metta, mystical / theistic experiences in
the Unfabricated
the Unfabricated shining through this world
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
soulmaking: theophany
Christian mysticism
metaphyics: ultimately unprovable assumptions
Vajrayana
Buddha-nature
Kabbalah
soulmaking: participation
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
philosophy: philosophers' lack of meditative training
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
Path of the Imaginal
21
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 4)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31523/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
soulmaking: vertical spectrum vs. spectrum of fabrication
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
cosmopoesis
desire/eros
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
breaking of the vessels (Shevirat ha-Kelim)
concept of being non-conceptual
concepts and ideas are present in all perception
definitions: eros
soulmaking: theophany
soulmaking and destiny
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
soulmaking: intention for soulmaking vs universal sacredness
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
existentialist Dharma
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
Path of the Imaginal
22
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 5)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/31524/
imaginal/soulmaking
definitions: divinity (or God or Buddha-nature)
cosmopoesis: how it develops and spreads
cosmopoesis
concepts/logos
images: early talks on images
concepts and ideas are present in all perception
images: examples of navigating an image
images that are vague or unclear
images: how to get images
definitions: angel
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
soulmaking: theophany
desire/eros
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
soulmaking: hearing imaginally
soulmaking and dukkha
prayer
devotion
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
An Ecology of Love
1
An Ecology of Love (Part 1 - Introduction)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/32199/
imaginal/soulmaking
views/orientations in practice
ethics/engagement
desire/eros
concepts/logos
soulmaking: theophany
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
values: what they're rooted in and conditioned by
activism and engagement: working with burnout
emotions, skill with
metta
soulmaking: metta and eros, differences between
definitions: eros
views: mutual dependency of love and view
An Ecology of Love
2
An Ecology of Love (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/32201/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
ethics/engagement
desire/eros
concepts/logos
metta
cosmopoesis
oneness and universality reducing care for particulars
pothos in eros: always wanting more
metta, mystical / theistic experiences in
time and timelessness
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine
An Ecology of Love
3
An Ecology of Love (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/32200/
imaginal/soulmaking
eros being diverted to greed through lack of dimensionality
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
desire/eros
pothos in eros: always wanting more
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
ethics/engagement
concepts/logos
cosmopoesis
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
An Ecology of Love
4
An Ecology of Love (Part 4)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/32198/
imaginal/soulmaking
ethics/engagement
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
self-views, noticing and practicing with
oneness and universality reducing care for particulars
desire/eros
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
Four Noble Truths
critique: the practice of 'just letting go'
concepts/logos
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
metta
clinging / craving: limitations of common approaches
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
1
The Nature of Enchantment
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37026/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
cosmopoesis
concepts/logos
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
sensitivity
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
energy body
soulmaking: four kinds of enchantment
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
seeing as perfect
aging/sickness/death
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine
art and soul
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
Dharma talk listening tips: caution with definitions / delineations
Dharma talk listening tips: listening structurally
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
2
Beyond the Search for Freedom
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37003/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: importance of and reasons for practice
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
soulmaking: prerequisites - healing or insight before soulmaking?
cosmopoesis
ethics/engagement
Four Noble Truths
soulmaking and emptiness
existentialist Dharma
mindfulness
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
ways of looking, flexibility in
inquiring
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
fantasies of the path
imaginal practice: beyond or within Buddhadharma?
soulmaking: theophany
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
soulmaking: self-orientation vs. divine orientation
art and soul
open-endedness in the Dharma
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
3
Mindfulness and Myth
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37013/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: importance of and reasons for practice
soulmaking and emptiness
mindfulness
metaphysics
concepts/logos
soulmaking: self-orientation vs. divine orientation
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
existentialist Dharma
transcendence in Buddhadharma
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
soulmaking and emptiness: basis of non-realism
inquiring
Middle Way of the imaginal
Dharma talk listening tips: listening for what's new
Dharma talk listening tips: listening structurally
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
4
"I Sing The Body Electric": On Orientations in Practice
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37010/
imaginal/soulmaking
energy body
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
samadhi
cosmopoesis
emotions
images: in relation to difficult emotions
definitions: energy body
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
continuity: the place of continuity in practice
ways of looking, flexibility in
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
precision: what does 'precision' mean in practice?
sensitivity
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
samadhi: prioritizing focus, or well-being, or subtlety
soulmaking: importance of and reasons for practice
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
5
On Orientations in Practice (live and shortened version)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37015/
imaginal/soulmaking
energy body
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
Dharma talk listening tips: listening structurally
Dharma talk listening tips: listening for what's new
samadhi
cosmopoesis
definitions: energy body
ways of looking, flexibility in
precision: what does 'precision' mean in practice?
sensitivity
walking meditation
soulmaking: comparing and contrasting with tantra
soulmaking: importance of and reasons for practice
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
6
Energy and Transubstantiation - The Alchemy of the Body (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37006/
imaginal/soulmaking
samadhi
jhana
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
energy body
piti
definitions: piti and sukha
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
cosmopoesis
cosmopoesis: how it develops and spreads
gratitude and appreciation
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
7
The Art of Perception
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37018/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
art and soul
soulmaking and emptiness
cosmopoesis
inquiring
metaphysics
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness: basis of non-realism
dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, nirmanakaya
existentialist Dharma
Nietzsche
Foucault
Taylor, Charles
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
8
The Movement of Devotion (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37024/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
supplication vs harmonizing vs union/cosmopoesis
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
samadhi
cosmopoesis
views/orientations in practice
energy body
devotion
eyes open vs. eyes closed
images: intrapsychic and extrapsychic images
inquiring: what is supporting this practice?
cosmopoesis: what blocks or inhibits cosmopoesis?
soulmaking: hearing imaginally
cosmopoesis: how it develops and spreads
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
Jung: active imagination
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
9
The Movement of Devotion (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37025/
imaginal/soulmaking
prayer
devotion
supplication vs harmonizing vs union/cosmopoesis
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
soulmaking: devotional erotic-imaginal
cosmopoesis
energy body
sensitivity
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
emotions: increase energy in attention, decrease in emotion
piti
walking meditation
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
10
The Movement of Devotion (live and shortened version)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37023/
imaginal/soulmaking
supplication vs harmonizing vs union/cosmopoesis
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
prayer
cosmopoesis
aging/sickness/death
energy body
devotion
soulmaking: devotional erotic-imaginal
eyes open vs. eyes closed
images: intrapsychic and extrapsychic images
inquiring: what is supporting this practice?
soulmaking: hearing imaginally
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
Jung: active imagination
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
walking meditation
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
11
Healing the Imagination (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37007/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: using the energy body to navigate
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
energy body
mindfulness
inquiring: what is supporting this practice?
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
kilesas
ethics/engagement
eros and ethics
Hillman, James
definitions: soul
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
working with pain / discomfort
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
12
Hearing All Sounds as Mantra - A Jewelline World
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37008/
imaginal/soulmaking
cosmopoesis
soulmaking: hearing imaginally
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
samadhi
energy body
emotions
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
13
Neither 'Is' nor 'Is Not': Of Emptiness and the Imaginal (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37014/
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking and emptiness: basis of non-realism
ethics/engagement
authenticity
supplication vs harmonizing vs union/cosmopoesis
image as primary
soulmaking and emptiness
Middle Way of emptiness
soulmaking: conflicting demands of disparate angels, antinomies
cosmopoesis
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
14
Matter, Bodies, Worlds (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37011/
imaginal/soulmaking
cosmopoesis
soulmaking: self-orientation vs. divine orientation
views/orientations in practice
image as primary
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
existentialist Dharma
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
soulmaking: theophany
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine
beauty, inquiring into
soulmaking: allowing it to spread in all directions
modern physics / quantum physics
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
15
Matter, Bodies, Worlds (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37012/
imaginal/soulmaking
cosmopoesis
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
modern physics / quantum physics
concepts/logos
metaphysics
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
Kabbalah
soulmaking and emptiness: basis of non-realism
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
metaphysics: clinging to reality views after seeing dependent arising
mindfulness, foundations of: first foundation (body)
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
energy body
soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum
eternality / timelessness
dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, nirmanakaya
soulmaking: circumscribing sacredness before seeing all as sacred
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
16
From Inertia, Towards the Solutio (A Fragment)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37028/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
cosmopoesis
inertia
walking meditation
metaphors: water, liquid
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
17
Images of the Breath: Energy Body, Colour, and the Beloved (Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37009/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: how to get images
guided energy body meditation
energy body
breath meditation
guided meditation: breathing with the energy body
breath meditation: breathing through different areas of the body
guided imaginal practice
images: love in and from images
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
18
Creating the Path (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37005/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
cosmopoesis
images: expanding one's range of image and fantasy
soulmaking: allowing it to spread in all directions
kilesas
ethics/engagement
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
cosmopoesis: kinds of imaginal and non-imaginal cosmopoesis
definitions: eros
twoness, differentiation, retaining particularities
soulmaking: retaining autonomy of self and other in imaginal practice
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
art and soul
authenticity
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
19
Sensing Divinity
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37016/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
eros: access to both fire and equanimity
soulmaking: intention for soulmaking vs universal sacredness
metta
cosmopoesis
aging/sickness/death
seeing as perfect
authenticity
mystical openings and experiences
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
soulmaking: the growing interfusion of life and image
supplication vs harmonizing vs union/cosmopoesis
kilesas
blessing
Buddha-nature
guided imaginal practice
guided temenos / dyad exercise
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
twoness / balance of attention practices or instructions
guided twoness / balance of attention
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
20
The Imaginal and the Middle Way (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37022/
imaginal/soulmaking
supporting practice in daily life, off retreat
ways of looking, flexibility in
soulmaking: self-orientation vs. divine orientation
Buddha-nature
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
Middle Way of the imaginal
renunciation/letting go
soulmaking: conflicting demands of disparate angels, antinomies
eros: access to both fire and equanimity
soulmaking: circumscribing sacredness before seeing all as sacred
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking: how trust and distrust color images
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
21
The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37019/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
self-views, noticing and practicing with
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
Nietzsche
existentialist Dharma
fantasies of the path
soulmaking: four kinds of enchantment
soulmaking: self-orientation vs. divine orientation
Taylor, Charles
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process
conceptual frameworks, flexibility with
soulmaking and destiny
soulmaking and dukkha
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
22
The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37020/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking: self-orientation vs. divine orientation
desire/eros
pothos in eros: always wanting more
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
causality, questioning notions of
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
concepts/logos
not-self in imaginal practice vs classical anatta view
Jung
soulmaking: prerequisites - healing or insight before soulmaking?
soulmaking and dukkha
judgment/inner critic
soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine
eternality / timelessness
authenticity
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
23
The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37021/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
soulmaking, duty in
Kabbalah
Jung
images: life becoming image
soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine
soulmaking and destiny
soulmaking and emptiness
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
concepts/logos
eternality / timelessness
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
24
This Fire, This Longing (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37027/
imaginal/soulmaking
supporting practice in daily life, off retreat
soulmaking, duty in
images: life becoming image
soulmaking: self-orientation vs. divine orientation
cosmopoesis
metaphors: fire
desire/eros
art and soul
soulmaking and dukkha
goals and effort
jhana
energy body
Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception
25
Tending the Flame
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/37017/
imaginal/soulmaking
Middle Way of the imaginal
soulmaking: vulnerability of sharing images
supporting practice in daily life, off retreat
samadhi
cosmopoesis
practice schedules / balancing different practices
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
1
The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40190/
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
the Unfabricated
mystical openings and experiences
time and timelessness
clinging / craving: practical approaches
clinging / craving: limitations of common approaches
impermanence (anicca)
dependent arising as linear
critique: the practice of 'just letting go'
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
three characteristics
renunciation/letting go
desire/eros
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
2
The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40191/
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
not-self (anatta)
impermanence (anicca)
dukkha (suffering)
the Unfabricated
emptiness/insight: trying to repeat experiences
critique: the practice of 'just letting go'
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
Mahayana
Vajrayana
mystical openings and experiences
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
clinging / craving: limitations of common approaches
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
three characteristics
renunciation/letting go
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
3
The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40192/
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
clinging / craving: limitations of common approaches
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
desire/eros
definitions: eros
fantasies of the path
renunciation/letting go
sexuality/romantic relationships
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
4
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get here?! (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40163/
imaginal/soulmaking
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
definitions: eros
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
eros: where/how is eros sensed (body, energy, etc.)
metaphors: fire
the Unfabricated
eros: what blocks or inhibits eros?
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
awakening
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness: basis of non-realism
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
5
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get here?! (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40164/
imaginal/soulmaking
definitions: eros
hermeneutic circle
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
eros: where/how is eros sensed (body, energy, etc.)
sensitivity
metaphors: water, liquid
eros in regard to self
Dharma talk listening tips: caution with definitions / delineations
desire/eros
energy body
concepts/logos
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
6
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get here?! (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40165/
imaginal/soulmaking
glossary of terms (definitions)
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
images: what is an image?
definitions: psyche
definitions: imaginal and sensing with soul
definitions: eros
definitions: divinity (or God or Buddha-nature)
definitions: soul
definitions: soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
definitions: energy body
Dharma talk listening tips: caution with definitions / delineations
soulmaking: theophany
cosmopoesis
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
desire/eros
energy body
concepts/logos
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
7
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get here?! (Part 4)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40166/
imaginal/soulmaking
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
definitions: eros
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
concepts/logos
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
8
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get here?! (Part 5)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40167/
imaginal/soulmaking
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
Dharma talk listening tips: meta-level insights
Dharma talk listening tips: caution with definitions / delineations
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
sexuality: judgment and measuring
simplicity and simplism
for future listeners
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
concepts/logos
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
9
Eros Unfettered (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40171/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
pothos in eros: always wanting more
himeros
soulmaking: theophany
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum
images: specificity of images
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
concepts/logos
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
10
Eros Unfettered (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40172/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
eros in regard to self
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
metaphors: fire
eternality / timelessness
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
cosmopoesis
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
11
Eros Unfettered (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40173/
imaginal/soulmaking
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
concepts/logos: ways logos can be too limited
mindfulness, unfabricating, skillful fabrication
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
sexuality, soullessness or lack of dimensionality in
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
soulmaking: perception of being necessary to God
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
soulmaking and dukkha
concepts/logos
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
12
Eros Unfettered (Part 4)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40174/
imaginal/soulmaking
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
eros being diverted to greed through lack of dimensionality
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
soulmaking: the student/teacher relationship
James, William
soulmaking: temenos, alchemical vessel
cosmopoesis
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
13
Eros Unfettered (Part 5 - Otherness and the Art of Disappearing)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40175/
imaginal/soulmaking
the Unfabricated
twoness, differentiation, retaining particularities
eros for unfabricating and for soulful fabrication
soulmaking: threeness
soulmaking: oneness in the erotic-imaginal
soulmaking: participation
mystical openings and experiences
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
philosophy: philosophers' lack of meditative training
Vajrayana
open-endedness in the Dharma
desire/eros
metaphysics
concepts/logos
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
14
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40195/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
eros and ethics
metaphors: fire
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
soulmaking: equanimity and letting go
soulmaking, duty in
soulmaking: temenos, alchemical vessel
breaking of the vessels (Shevirat ha-Kelim)
Hillman, James
Vajrayana
ethics/engagement
desire/eros
devotion
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
15
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40196/
imaginal/soulmaking
samadhi: developing well-being, happiness, nourishment
samadhi: concepts affecting the experiences that unfold
noticing/inhabiting power and strength
images: expanding one's range of image and fantasy
soulmaking: equanimity and letting go
eros: what blocks or inhibits eros?
eros: access to both fire and equanimity
Vajrayana
activism and engagement: working with burnout
samadhi
ethics/engagement
activism
desire/eros
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
16
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40197/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
desire/eros: options for working with
metaphors: fire
metta
mindfulness
desire/eros
energy body
soulmaking and emptiness
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
17
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 4)
https://dharmaseed.org/talks/40198
imaginal/soulmaking
desire/eros: options for working with
soulmaking: working imaginally with desired relationships
Kugler, Paul
etymologies, root words, and phonetic associations
working with sense of lack
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
soulmaking: devotional erotic-imaginal
images of earth/nature
soulmaking: longing to be seen, fear of being seen
images: examples of navigating an image
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
sexual energy, working with
desire/eros
devotion
sexuality/romantic relationships
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
18
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 5)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40199/
imaginal/soulmaking
mindfulness, unfabricating, skillful fabrication
soulmaking: intensity
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
sexual energy, working with
twoness, differentiation, retaining particularities
desire/eros
energy body
sexuality/romantic relationships
concepts/logos
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
19
Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40179/
imaginal/soulmaking
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
concepts and ideas are present in all perception
mindfulness, unfabricating, skillful fabrication
concept of being non-conceptual
aging/sickness/death
desire/eros
metaphysics
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
20
Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40180/
imaginal/soulmaking
hermeneutic circle
ideas of/relationships with tradition
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
metaphyics: epistemicide
Rorty, Richard
Kripal, Jeffrey J.
fantasies of the path
desire/eros
metaphysics
concepts/logos
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
21
Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40181/
imaginal/soulmaking
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
modern physics / quantum physics
soulmaking: participation
Fairbairn, W.R.D.
soulmaking and developmental psychology
causality, questioning notions of
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
desire/eros
metaphysics
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
22
Doubt and Discernment (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40168/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
metaphors: fire
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
images: examples of navigating an image
sensitivity
images: subtle vs dramatic / intense
soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
ethics/engagement
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
metaphysics
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
23
Doubt and Discernment (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40169/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
sensitivity
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
eros being diverted to greed through lack of dimensionality
soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing
jhana
desire/eros
soulmaking and dukkha
soulmaking and emptiness
Middle Way of the imaginal
soulmaking in oneness, etc., when it's a new perception
images: expanding one's range of image and fantasy
soulmaking: devotional erotic-imaginal
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
24
'The Holy Life' (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40187/
imaginal/soulmaking
desire/eros
soulmaking and emptiness
transcendence in Buddhadharma
definitions: immanence
the Unfabricated
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
awakening
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
pothos in eros: always wanting more
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
25
'The Holy Life' (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40188/
imaginal/soulmaking
desire/eros
awakening
soulmaking and emptiness
fantasies of the path
Vajrayana
soulmaking: comparing and contrasting with tantra
concepts/logos
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
Rorty, Richard
Fairbairn, W.R.D.
eros: what blocks or inhibits eros?
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
26
'The Holy Life' (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40189/
imaginal/soulmaking
fantasies of the path
desire/eros
awakening
Four Noble Truths
judgment/inner critic
awakening: influence of tradition and ego-measuring
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
the Unfabricated
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
soulmaking: participation
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
27
In Love with the Way: Images of Path and of Self
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40178/
imaginal/soulmaking
fantasies of the path
inquiring
desire/eros
soulmaking: participation
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
28
The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40193/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
soulmaking and emptiness
sexuality/romantic relationships
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
desire/eros
images: examples of navigating an image
Vajrayana
soulmaking: comparing and contrasting with tantra
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
the Unfabricated
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
eros for unfabricating and for soulful fabrication
soulmaking: participation
Kabbalah
soulmaking and emptiness: basis of non-realism
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
29
The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40194/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
Kabbalah
Vajrayana
desire/eros
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
causality, questioning notions of
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
sexuality/romantic relationships
images: examples of navigating an image
Kripal, Jeffrey J.
soulmaking: comparing and contrasting with tantra
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
30
Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40184/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
beauty, inquiring into
art and soul
sense pleasure
mindfulness, unfabricating, skillful fabrication
sexuality/romantic relationships
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
desire/eros
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
the Unfabricated
mindfulness, foundations of: first foundation (body)
Vajrayana
fantasies of the path
images of earth/nature
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
31
Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40185/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
sexuality in Insight Meditation world
sense pleasure
sexuality/romantic relationships
fantasies of the path
sexuality: does sex negatively affect practice/realization?
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
ethics/engagement
desire/eros
concepts/logos
Vajrayana
sexuality: inquiring around objectification
soulmaking: comparing and contrasting with tantra
Foucault
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
32
Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40186/
imaginal/soulmaking
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
simplicity and simplism
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
desire/eros
energy body
soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
sexuality/romantic relationships
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
definitions: infinite (in soulmaking)
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
33
Eros and the Brahmaviharas
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40170/
brahmaviharas
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: metta and eros, differences between
soulmaking: differentiating eros and the brahmaviharas
metta
compassion
joy
equanimity
desire/eros
definitions: eros
soulmaking: longing to be seen, fear of being seen
metta, mystical / theistic experiences in
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
soulmaking: devotional erotic-imaginal
piti and sukha, practicing with
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
34
Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40182/
imaginal/soulmaking
Practice: Opening to the current of desire
desire/eros
energy body
ways of looking, flexibility in
differences/overlap between imaginal and opening-desire
working with sense of lack
soulmaking: working imaginally with desire that can't be had
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
35
Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40183/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: temenos, alchemical vessel
soulmaking: working imaginally with desire that can't be had
inquiring
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
concepts/logos
soulmaking: the student/teacher relationship
soulmaking: working imaginally with desired relationships
pothos in eros: always wanting more
eros for unfabricating and for soulful fabrication
inquiring: what blocks questioning?
desire/eros: concepts affect what experiences unfold
sexual energy, working with
piti and sukha, practicing with
desire/eros: summary of ways of viewing desire
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
36
From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40176/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
soulmaking: the growing interfusion of life and image
desire/eros
metaphysics
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
the Unfabricated
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
image as primary
soulmaking and dukkha
Hillman, James
definitions: divinity (or God or Buddha-nature)
definitions: infinite echoing and mirroring
metaphyics: ultimately unprovable assumptions
modern physics / quantum physics
Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire
37
From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40177/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking and emptiness
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
metta, mystical / theistic experiences in
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
metaphysics: ontic status / different kinds of reality of perceptions
conceptual frameworks, flexibility with
soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine
soulmaking: near enemies of eros and soulmaking
desire/eros
metaphysics
concepts/logos
the Unfabricated
soulmaking: participation
Kabbalah
Vajrayana
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
1
The Problem of Desire
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43948/
imaginal/soulmaking
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
sexuality/romantic relationships
desire/eros
awakening
definitions: eros
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
2
Eros in the Imaginal (Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43938/
imaginal/soulmaking
guided imaginal practice
images: what is an image?
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum
images: how to get images
desire/eros
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
3
Faith in Soulmaking (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43939/
imaginal/soulmaking
images that are vague or unclear
images: the place of analysis and thought in imaginal work
fantasies of the path
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
desire/eros
image as primary
soul as an organ/entity or range of ways of looking
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
4
Eros and Equanimity in the Movements of Soul
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43937/
imaginal/soulmaking
definitions: soulmaking
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
soulmaking: equanimity and letting go
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
eros: where/how is eros sensed (body, energy, etc.)
definitions: eros
definitions: psyche
pothos in eros: always wanting more
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
soulmaking and emptiness
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
soulmaking: theophany
eros: what blocks or inhibits eros?
soulmaking: intensity
soulmaking: allowing it to spread in all directions
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
Middle Way of the imaginal
Dharma talk listening tips: caution with definitions / delineations
soul as an organ/entity or range of ways of looking
soulmaking and emptiness: basis of non-realism
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
5
Instructions: Letting Go
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43940/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: equanimity and letting go
clinging / craving: practical approaches
samadhi
renunciation/letting go
emotions / mind states, resourcing and cultivating skillful
desire/eros
energy body
dukkha (suffering)
impermanence (anicca)
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
6
Clinging, Craving, Eros (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43935/
imaginal/soulmaking
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
desire/eros
soulmaking and emptiness
soulmaking: modulating fading in imaginal practice
emotions: transforming difficult emotions
emotions / mind states: anger
cosmopoesis: how it develops and spreads
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
mindfulness, unfabricating, skillful fabrication
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
7
Instructions: Opening to the Current of Desire
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43941/
imaginal/soulmaking
Practice: Opening to the current of desire
desire/eros
working with sense of lack
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
8
Opening to Desire and the Imaginal (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43946/
imaginal/soulmaking
Practice: Opening to the current of desire
compassion
desire/eros
energy body
twoness / balance of attention practices or instructions
eros: what blocks or inhibits eros?
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
sexual energy, working with
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
jhana
piti and sukha, practicing with
working with pain / discomfort
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
9
Intention and Devotion (Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43942/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
guided meditation on devotion
energy body
devotion
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
guided practice or instructions on voice / movement
walking meditation
standing meditation
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
10
Energy Body and Image (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43936/
imaginal/soulmaking
samadhi
desire/eros
energy body
concepts/logos
working with pain / discomfort
samadhi: concepts affecting the experiences that unfold
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
definitions: energy body
soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
soulmaking: modulating fading in imaginal practice
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
11
Visions of the Beyond
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43949/
imaginal/soulmaking
eros for unfabricating and for soulful fabrication
inquiring around eros for the path
fantasies of the path
relationships with the senses
desire/eros
awakening
concepts/logos
the Unfabricated
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
working with sense of lack
Fairbairn, W.R.D.
eros being diverted to greed through lack of dimensionality
existentialist Dharma
Vajrayana
emptiness: what is emptiness?
soulmaking: comparing and contrasting with tantra
awakening as open-ended
definitions: immanence
transcendence in Buddhadharma
soulmaking and emptiness: basis of non-realism
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
12
On Blessed Ground: Fantasies of the Self on the Path
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43945/
imaginal/soulmaking
fantasies of the path
conceptions of dukkha and the Four Noble Truths
sexuality/romantic relationships
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
13
Awakening and Soulmaking (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43933/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
emptiness/insight: liberating insight without cessation
samadhi
jhana
awakening
image as primary
soulmaking and emptiness
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
14
Longing, Vulnerability, Anteros
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43943/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: anteros
desire/eros
devotion
soulmaking and dukkha
pothos in eros: always wanting more
images: examples of navigating an image
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
eros in regard to self
soulmaking: participation
soulmaking, vulnerability in
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
15
Modes of Soulmaking (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43944/
imaginal/soulmaking
jhana
cosmopoesis
soulmaking and emptiness
mystical openings and experiences
the Unfabricated
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
cosmopoesis: how it develops and spreads
soulmaking: comparing and contrasting with tantra
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
16
Beauty and the Buddha
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43934/
imaginal/soulmaking
art and soul
beauty, inquiring into
soulmaking and emptiness
fantasies of the path
desire/eros
sense pleasure
sensitivity
definitions: infinite echoing and mirroring
soulmaking: participation
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
existentialist Dharma
impermanence (anicca)
metaphysics
definitions: divinity (or God or Buddha-nature)
dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, nirmanakaya
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
definitions: psyche
soulmaking: anteros
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire
17
Shaping Vessels
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/43947/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
soulmaking: vulnerability of sharing images
desire/eros
supporting practice in daily life, off retreat
Right Speech
The Mirrored Gates
1
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50471/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
definitions: imaginal and sensing with soul
images: how to get images
soulmaking: moving towards the fully imaginal
images: intrapsychic and extrapsychic images
metaphysics
The Mirrored Gates
2
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50472/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
soulmaking: moving towards the fully imaginal
images: how to get images
images: intrapsychic and extrapsychic images
images: subtle vs dramatic / intense
images: what is an image?
images: reasons we might dismiss images
soulmaking, duty in
images: examples of navigating an image
The Mirrored Gates
3
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50473/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
definitions: imaginal and sensing with soul
soulmaking: moving towards the fully imaginal
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
The Mirrored Gates
4
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 4)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50474/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
soulmaking: moving towards the fully imaginal
Middle Way of the imaginal vs emptiness Middle Way
soulmaking, duty in
The Mirrored Gates
5
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 5)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50475/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
free will vs determinism
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
antinomies in values/ethics
The Mirrored Gates
6
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 6)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50476/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
time and timelessness
Middle Way of the imaginal vs emptiness Middle Way
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
Middle Way of the imaginal
concepts and ideas are present in all perception
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
soulmaking: participation
The Mirrored Gates
7
Sensing with Soul (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50493/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: intrapsychic and extrapsychic images
cosmopoesis: kinds of imaginal and non-imaginal cosmopoesis
cosmopoesis: how it develops and spreads
eros for unfabricating and for soulful fabrication
soulmaking in oneness, etc., when it's a new perception
Findlay, J. N.
mindfulness, unfabricating, skillful fabrication
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
The Mirrored Gates
8
Sensing with Soul (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50494/
imaginal/soulmaking
soul as an organ/entity or range of ways of looking
pothos in eros: always wanting more
eros: transgressive movement in eros
Feynman
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
definitions: soul
definitions: soulmaking
desire/eros
concepts/logos
The Mirrored Gates
9
Sensing with Soul (Part 3 - On the Dynamics of Soulmaking)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50495/
imaginal/soulmaking
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum
soulmaking: respecting personal soul-styles
soulmaking: pacing
soulmaking: expecting and working with reification
Middle Way of the imaginal
soulmaking: allowing it to spread in all directions
The Mirrored Gates
10
Sensing with Soul (Part 4)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50496/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: the growing interfusion of life and image
soulmaking: four elements of sensing the world with soul
soulmaking: using emptiness practices to loosen clinging
soulmaking: catching sensing with soul from the field (dyad/group)
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
energy body
soulmaking and dukkha
The Mirrored Gates
11
Sensing with Soul (Part 5)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50497/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
soulmaking: catching sensing with soul from the field (dyad/group)
images: life becoming image
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
The Mirrored Gates
12
Sensing with Soul (Part 6)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50498/
imaginal/soulmaking
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
modern physics / quantum physics
Descartes
Jung
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
metaphysics
concepts/logos
The Mirrored Gates
13
Sensing with Soul (Part 7)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50499/
imaginal/soulmaking
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
soulmaking: participation
aging/sickness/death
Middle Way of the imaginal
metaphysics
The Mirrored Gates
14
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50485/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
emotions, skill with
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
soulmaking: relational skills
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
emotions
Four Noble Truths
soulmaking and dukkha
soulmaking: vulnerability of sharing images
personality level - working with reified self
The Mirrored Gates
15
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50486/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
breaking of the vessels (Shevirat ha-Kelim)
Kabbalah
soulmaking: pacing
soulmaking: retaining autonomy of self and other in imaginal practice
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking and dukkha
The Mirrored Gates
16
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50487/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: taking care not to create more dukkha
conceptions of dukkha and the Four Noble Truths
Hillman, James
soulmaking: conflicting demands of disparate angels, antinomies
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
images: examples of navigating an image
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
Four Noble Truths
soulmaking and dukkha
metaphysics
concepts/logos
The Mirrored Gates
17
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 4 - Mastering the Fire)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50488/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: taking care not to create more dukkha
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
desire: distinguishing the different kinds
metaphors: fire
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
desire/eros
soulmaking and dukkha
The Mirrored Gates
18
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 5)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50489/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: how it can ease dukkha
soulmaking: catching sensing with soul from the field (dyad/group)
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
sexuality/romantic relationships
image as primary
soulmaking and dukkha
The Mirrored Gates
19
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 6)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50490/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: how it can ease dukkha
healing of the world (tikkun olam)
Kabbalah
seeing as perfect
soulmaking: participation
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking and dukkha
The Mirrored Gates
20
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 7)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50491/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: how it can ease dukkha
soulmaking: dukkha of being seen in a flatly human way
Hegel
soulmaking: perception of being necessary to God
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
conceptions of dukkha and the Four Noble Truths
causality, questioning notions of
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
aging/sickness/death
Four Noble Truths
soulmaking and dukkha
The Mirrored Gates
21
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 8)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50492/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: how it can ease dukkha
Hillman, James
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
Fairbairn, W.R.D.
conceptual frameworks, flexibility with
soulmaking: participation
soulmaking and developmental psychology
causality, questioning notions of
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking and dukkha
concepts/logos
The Mirrored Gates
22
What is Awakening? (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50500/
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
conceptions of dukkha and the Four Noble Truths
awakening as open-ended
awakening: influence of tradition and ego-measuring
awakening: stream-entry, stages of awakening
jhana
inquiring
judgment/inner critic
awakening
Four Noble Truths
motivation
soulmaking and emptiness
The Mirrored Gates
23
What is Awakening? (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50501/
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
awakening: stream-entry, stages of awakening
the Unfabricated
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
cessation: determining if it occurred
cessation: understanding dependent arising without cessation
the Unfabricated shining through this world
awakening: U-tube metaphor
awakening
soulmaking and emptiness
The Mirrored Gates
24
What is Awakening? (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50502/
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
awakening: stream-entry, stages of awakening
ideas of/relationships with tradition
awakening as open-ended
awakening: emptiness / non-duality of nirvana and samsara
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
Rob: four most important perspectives in relation to death
awakening: a possible trajectory of the phenomenological approach
soulmaking: participation
ethics/engagement
aging/sickness/death
awakening
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
The Mirrored Gates
25
What is Awakening? (Part 4)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50503/
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
awakening: a possible trajectory of the phenomenological approach
ideas of/relationships with tradition
awakening: different kinds of liberation through eros and soul
awakening as open-ended
concept of being non-conceptual
existentialist Dharma
soulmaking: participation
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
awakening
metaphysics
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
The Mirrored Gates
26
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50477/
imaginal/soulmaking
concepts/logos: the place of ideas in practice
concepts and ideas are present in all perception
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
James, William
Descartes
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
metaphyics: epistemicide
desire/eros
metaphysics
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
The Mirrored Gates
27
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50478/
imaginal/soulmaking
concepts/logos: the place of ideas in practice
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
midrash
Husserl
Vattimo, Gianni
Dilthey, Wilhelm
Rorty, Richard
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
soulmaking: participation
metaphysics
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
metaphyics: ultimately unprovable assumptions
The Mirrored Gates
28
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50479/
imaginal/soulmaking
concepts/logos: the place of ideas in practice
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
Nietzsche
Foucault
metaphysics
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
The Mirrored Gates
29
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 4 - The Three Characteristics)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50480/
imaginal/soulmaking
concepts/logos: possible meditations on ideas
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
emptiness/insight, revisiting ways of looking with a greater understanding of
Vajrayana
etymologies, root words, and phonetic associations
soulmaking: participation
jhana
three characteristics
soulmaking and dukkha
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
The Mirrored Gates
30
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 5 - Bodhicitta)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50481/
imaginal/soulmaking
concepts/logos: possible meditations on ideas
Buddha-nature
etymologies, root words, and phonetic associations
Mahayana
concepts/logos: 'living life to the full'
bodhicitta
Hartmann, Nicolai
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
The Mirrored Gates
31
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 6 - Amitabha Buddha)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50482/
imaginal/soulmaking
concepts/logos: possible meditations on ideas
supplication vs harmonizing vs union/cosmopoesis
gematria
midrash
Kabbalah
Abulafia
Mahayana
Vajrayana
etymologies, root words, and phonetic associations
soulmaking: participation
concepts/logos
soulmaking and emptiness
The Mirrored Gates
32
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 7 - The Scripture of Body and Earth)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50483/
imaginal/soulmaking
concepts/logos: possible meditations on ideas
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
prayer
dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, nirmanakaya
Mahayana
soulmaking: participation
images: examples of navigating an image
energy body
concepts/logos
The Mirrored Gates
33
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 8 - Talking with Trees)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50484/
imaginal/soulmaking
concepts/logos: possible meditations on ideas
antinomies in values/ethics
gematria
ideational-imaginal (context: aesthetic or moral values/virtues)
Kabbalah
Abulafia
soulmaking: dukkha of being seen in a flatly human way
seeing as perfect
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
Hartmann, Nicolai
soulmaking: participation
ethics/engagement
concepts/logos
Tending the Holy Fire
1
Body and Soul (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50508/
imaginal/soulmaking
samadhi
jhana
energy body
concepts/logos
definitions: energy body
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
images arising through body / energy body
jhana and soulmaking
Tending the Holy Fire
2
Elements of the Imaginal (1 - 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50509/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
soulmaking: purpose of teachings on aspects of the imaginal
energy body
soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum
Tending the Holy Fire
3
To Sense with Soul
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50511/
imaginal/soulmaking
definitions: imaginal and sensing with soul
definitions: soul
soul as an organ/entity or range of ways of looking
definitions: soulmaking
Tending the Holy Fire
4
Trusting in Soulmaking (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50512/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: different ways to spark soul
soulmaking: challenges of teaching or explaining
active versus receptive modes of practice
twoness, differentiation, retaining particularities
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
energy body
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
soulmaking: comparing and contrasting with tantra
Tending the Holy Fire
5
Soulful Movement and Elements of the Imaginal (6 - 10)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50514/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
soulmaking: purpose of teachings on aspects of the imaginal
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking: how trust and distrust color images
mindfulness, unfabricating, skillful fabrication
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
Tending the Holy Fire
6
Transformation in Soul (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50515/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
emotions: transforming difficult emotions
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking and emptiness
emotions / mind states: anger
soulmaking, duty in
ethics/engagement
definitions: soul
Tending the Holy Fire
7
A Temenos Exercise (in fours)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50516/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
guided temenos / dyad exercise
Tending the Holy Fire
8
Soulmaking Rivers (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50519/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking and emptiness
soulmaking: form of image fading, essence remaining
definitions: divinity (or God or Buddha-nature)
existentialist Dharma
soulmaking: participation
images: expanding one's range of image and fantasy
awakening: different kinds of liberation through eros and soul
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
jhana and soulmaking
Mahayana
ideational-imaginal (context: aesthetic or moral values/virtues)
Tending the Holy Fire
9
Elements of the Imaginal (15 - 18)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50520/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
image as primary
causality, questioning notions of
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
soulmaking: retaining autonomy of self and other in imaginal practice
Tending the Holy Fire
10
Destiny, Autonomy, Love, and Soul (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50522/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking, duty in
images: evil, mental health, and difficulty shifting conceptual frameworks
soulmaking and destiny
Middle Way of the imaginal
aging/sickness/death
soulmaking: retaining autonomy of self and other in imaginal practice
images: asking what images want from us
images: subtle vs dramatic / intense
image as primary
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum
soulmaking: how trust and distrust color images
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
Tending the Holy Fire
11
A Temenos Exercise (in threes)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50523/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
guided temenos / dyad exercise
Tending the Holy Fire
12
The Rhythms of Soulmaking and Elements of the Imaginal (23 - 28)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50524/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
judgment/inner critic
eros: what blocks or inhibits eros?
concepts/logos: ways logos can be too limited
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
soulmaking, duty in
breaking of the vessels (Shevirat ha-Kelim)
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
soulmaking: form of image fading, essence remaining
ideational-imaginal (context: aesthetic or moral values/virtues)
soulmaking: participation
Tending the Holy Fire
13
Discernment in Soulmaking (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50525/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: different imaginal frameworks (Burbea, Hillman, etc.)
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
soulmaking: temenos and group practices on one's own
desire/eros
metaphysics
concepts/logos
Hillman, James
Corbin, Henry
Jung
soulmaking in oneness, etc., when it's a new perception
active versus receptive modes of practice
sexual energy, working with
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
eros being diverted to greed through lack of dimensionality
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
Tending the Holy Fire
14
Nothing Happens By Itself
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50527/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
soulmaking: vulnerability of sharing images
supporting practice in daily life, off retreat
Interview with Lila Kimhi
1
Chapter 1 - Who Are You, Rob?
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2018-06-01-interview-with-lila-kimhi-chapter-1
other topics
Rob biographical
Interview with Lila Kimhi
2
Chapter 2 - Diving Into the Path
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2018-06-01-interview-with-lila-kimhi-chapter-2
other topics
Rob biographical
Interview with Lila Kimhi
3
Chapter 3 – Therapy, Deepening Practice and Vision
https://hermesamara.org/resources/all/retreat/Interview%20with%20Lila%20Kimhi
other topics
Rob biographical
Interview with Lila Kimhi
4
Chapter 4 - Ways of Looking
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2018-06-01-interview-with-lila-kimhi-chapter-4
other topics
Rob biographical
Interview with Lila Kimhi
5
Chapter 5 - Imaginal, Illness and Death
https://hermesamara.org/resources/talk/2018-06-01-interview-with-lila-kimhi-chapter-5
other topics
Rob biographical
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
1
Opening Talk ('To Kiss a Falcon')
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51511/
imaginal/soulmaking
art and soul
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
concepts/logos
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
2
The Energy Body (A Little Bit of What, Why, and How)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51513/
imaginal/soulmaking
guided energy body meditation
images arising through body / energy body
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
twoness, differentiation, retaining particularities
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
definitions: energy body
samadhi
energy body
concepts/logos
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
3
Growing the Energy Body (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51515/
imaginal/soulmaking
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
samadhi
jhana
piti
energy body
working with pain / discomfort
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
4
Heart Art and an Introduction to Image
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51518/
imaginal/soulmaking
art and soul
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
images: intrapsychic and extrapsychic images
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
emotions
soulmaking and dukkha
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
5
Voice, Movement, and the Possibilities of Soul (1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51519/
imaginal/soulmaking
twoness / balance of attention practices or instructions
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
guided practice or instructions on voice / movement
guided twoness / balance of attention
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
6
Trust, Ethics, Image (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51520/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
ethics/engagement
Middle Way of the imaginal
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
image as primary
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
7
Towards the Imaginal
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51523/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
Middle Way of the imaginal vs emptiness Middle Way
eternality / timelessness
samadhi
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
8
Voice, Movement, and the Possibilities of Soul (2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51528/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
guided practice or instructions on voice / movement
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
9
Sensitivity, Receptivity, and Respect in Soul Work (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51530/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
eternality / timelessness
soulmaking: participation
desire/eros
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
10
Wisdom and Desire
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51531/
imaginal/soulmaking
Practice: Opening to the current of desire
eternality / timelessness
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
fantasies of the path
desire/eros
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
11
Sailing the Oceans of Soul (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51532/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
soulmaking: modulating fading in imaginal practice
jhana
energy body
concepts/logos
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
12
The Spreading of Five Wings
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51534/
imaginal/soulmaking
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
desire/eros
energy body
soulmaking: allowing it to spread in all directions
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
13
Sharing Soul Sense (A Temenos Exercise)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51535/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
guided temenos / dyad exercise
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
14
Soul Making Dharma (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51536/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
soulmaking: participation
energy body
awakening
concepts/logos
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
15
Of Hunger and Humility
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/51537/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
Emerge Podcast
1
A Spiritual Paradigm for the Infinite Game
https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Rob-Burbea---A-Spiritual-Paradigm-for-The-Infinite-Game-e1r0sd
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
Rob biographical
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
awakening: emptiness / non-duality of nirvana and samsara
Assorted Writings
1
Poem: Ikon (page 34)
https://gaiahouse.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/GAIA-HOUSE-Summer-2018-Spreads.pdf
imaginal/soulmaking
Emerge Podcast
1
Rob Burbea Responds
https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Rob-Burbea-Responds-e1vm3d
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
soulmaking: retaining the personal, unique, particular
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
images: intrapsychic and extrapsychic images
ethics/engagement
insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path)
soulmaking and emptiness
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
soulmaking: comparing and contrasting with tantra
simplicity and simplism
aging/sickness/death
Deconstructing Yourself Podcast
1
Emptiness, Liberation, and Beauty – with Rob Burbea
https://deconstructingyourself.com/dy-025-emptiness-liberation-and-beauty-with-guest-rob-burbea.html
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
emptiness: what is emptiness?
Emerge Podcast
1
Meditation Fantasies & the Soulmaking Dharma
https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Rob-Burbea---Meditation-Fantasies--The-Soulmaking-Dharma-e24sqa
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
fantasies of the path
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
phenomenological approach to meditation
mindfulness
emptiness: what is emptiness?
soulmaking and emptiness
mystical openings and experiences
concepts/logos: importance of supportive conceptual frameworks
concepts and ideas are present in all perception
concepts/logos: ways logos can be too limited
the Unfabricated
Roots into the Ground of Soul
1
This Retreat
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58652/
imaginal/soulmaking
guided temenos / dyad exercise
soulmaking and dukkha
aging/sickness/death
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
blessing
judgment/inner critic
Roots into the Ground of Soul
2
The Imaginal-Energy Body (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58615/
imaginal/soulmaking
energy body
definitions: energy body
images arising through body / energy body
Dharma talk listening tips: caution with definitions / delineations
energy body: evolution of the term, from samadhi to imaginal
twoness / balance of attention practices or instructions
samadhi
aging/sickness/death
images: using the energy body to navigate
energy: tolerating more energy, noticing limits on range and intensity
art and soul
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
jhana
jhana and soulmaking
Roots into the Ground of Soul
3
A Rite of Angels
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58614/
imaginal/soulmaking
guided reflections
guided temenos / dyad exercise
ethics/engagement
blessing
guided practice or instructions on voice / movement
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
Roots into the Ground of Soul
4
Dukkha and Emotions in Soulmaking Practice
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58610/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking and dukkha
emotions
emotions / mind states: anger
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
emotions: increase energy in attention, decrease in emotion
cosmopoesis: how it develops and spreads
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
ethics/engagement
soulmaking: conflicting demands of disparate angels, antinomies
Roots into the Ground of Soul
5
On Practising with Images (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58613/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
art and soul
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images
soulmaking: form of image fading, essence remaining
images: love in and from images
emotions / mind states: shame or unworthiness
soulmaking: care in working with imaginal figures of actual people
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
Roots into the Ground of Soul
6
Eros and Desire (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58611/
imaginal/soulmaking
definitions: twoness
twoness, differentiation, retaining particularities
soulmaking: oneness in the erotic-imaginal
twoness / balance of attention practices or instructions
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
soulmaking: concerns about vanity/narcissism in seeing divinity
soulmaking: importance of and reasons for practice
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
cosmopoesis
cosmopoesis: how it develops and spreads
desire/eros
Kabbalah
soulmaking and emptiness
soulmaking and emptiness: erotic relationship with emptiness
eros and craving, distinguishing and working with
soulmaking and developmental psychology
soulmaking: allowing it to spread in all directions
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
images: archetypal
Jung
Roots into the Ground of Soul
7
Image, Ethics, and Awakening (Q & A)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58612/
imaginal/soulmaking
ethics/engagement
awakening
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
soulmaking: care in working with imaginal figures of actual people
sexuality/romantic relationships
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
sexual energy, working with
critique: rapid seeing of impermanence
working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies
dark nights, kundalini explosions, and rapid impermanence
impermanence (anicca)
images: examples of navigating an image
images: what is an image?
antinomies in values/ethics
emotions: deep samadhi reducing tenderness of heart
Roots into the Ground of Soul
8
Closing Comments From Rob - Soulmaking and Sangha
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58609/
imaginal/soulmaking
supporting practice in daily life, off retreat
soulmaking: vulnerability of sharing images
soulmaking: challenges of teaching or explaining
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
1
The Way of Image
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58787/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
definitions: imaginal and sensing with soul
Dharma talk listening tips: caution with definitions / delineations
definitions: soul
soulmaking: threeness
soulmaking: different imaginal frameworks (Burbea, Hillman, etc.)
concepts/logos
images: fixated image vs mindful observation vs imaginal
Middle Way of the imaginal
definitions: fantasy
images: what is an image?
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
images: examples of navigating an image
soulmaking: conflicting demands of disparate angels, antinomies
cosmopoesis
cosmopoesis: how it develops and spreads
definitions: refraction
aging/sickness/death
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
soulmaking: moving towards the fully imaginal
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
2
The Crucible
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58783/
imaginal/soulmaking
images: how to get images
images: examples of navigating an image
energy body
emotions
images: in relation to difficult emotions
soulmaking and dukkha
cosmopoesis
cosmopoesis: kinds sustained from or with emotional well-being
soulmaking, vulnerability in
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
twoness / balance of attention practices or instructions
soulmaking: retaining autonomy of self and other in imaginal practice
soulmaking, duty in
sensitivity
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
images: memories becoming imaginal
definitions: infinite echoing and mirroring
concepts/logos
concepts/logos: possible meditations on ideas
images: let the body lead, not demanding visual images
soulmaking: pacing
art and soul
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
images: how to get images - the place of stretches and challenges
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
3
Opening the Sense of the Energy Body
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58773/
imaginal/soulmaking
energy body
definitions: energy body
energy body, list of aspects involved in sensing with
Dharma talk listening tips: listening structurally
twoness / balance of attention practices or instructions
energy: tolerating more energy, noticing limits on range and intensity
generosity
samadhi
devotion
soulmaking: devotional erotic-imaginal
sexuality/romantic relationships
images arising through body / energy body
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
soulmaking: vertical spectrum / imaginal concertina
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
4
Heat and the Material
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58771/
imaginal/soulmaking
emotions
emotions, skill with
soulmaking: cultural views around emotions and healthy psychologies
metaphors: fire
metaphors: water, liquid
eros: access to both fire and equanimity
emotions: having the whole range of emotions
images from equanimity and eros, positive emotions and dukkha
soulmaking and dukkha
concepts/logos
emotions / mind states: anger
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
images: how to get images
images: how to get images - the place of stretches and challenges
breaking of the vessels (Shevirat ha-Kelim)
soulmaking: challenges of teaching or explaining
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
not-self in imaginal practice vs classical anatta view
images: examples of navigating an image
noticing/inhabiting power and strength
image: inquiring into where the dynamism is
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
5
"Until All is Liquid" (Emptiness and Sensing with Soul)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58786/
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking and emptiness
Middle Way of the imaginal vs emptiness Middle Way
soulmaking: spectrum of reification in imaginal practice
working with tightness/pushing for more fading in emptiness practice
emptiness/insight: liberating insight without cessation
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
emptiness: what is emptiness?
metaphors: water, liquid
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
soulmaking: challenges of teaching or explaining
Corbin, Henry
Kabbalah
aging/sickness/death
metaphysics: ontic status / different kinds of reality of perceptions
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
6
Daimon, Refracted
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58766/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
soulmaking: allowing it to spread in all directions
guided imaginal practice
Middle Way of the imaginal vs emptiness Middle Way
soul desire to imprint / make impression on others
inner critic, imaginal practice with
inner critic arising in connection to deep longing
soulmaking and dukkha
guided practice or instructions on voice / movement
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
soulmaking: hearing imaginally
images: examples of navigating an image
soulmaking: comparing and contrasting with tantra
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
7
Dimensionality, Humility, Duty, and Love
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58770/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
soulmaking: purpose of teachings on aspects of the imaginal
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal, refinements of terms
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
twoness, differentiation, retaining particularities
soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine
definitions: refraction
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
soulmaking: participation
metaphysics
aging/sickness/death
prayer
soulmaking, duty in
images: love in and from images
Hartmann, Nicolai
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
8
The Invitation of Otherness (Autonomy, Eros, and Intentionality)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58784/
imaginal/soulmaking
twoness, differentiation, retaining particularities
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal, refinements of terms
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
soulmaking: retaining autonomy of self and other in imaginal practice
soulmaking: form of image fading, essence remaining
soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine
desire: conditions that shape the relationship with desire
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
fullness of intention in healing eros and sexuality
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
soulmaking: intention for soulmaking vs universal sacredness
soulmaking: anteros
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
authenticity
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
9
Logoi and Leanings
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58772/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
concepts/logos
soulmaking: priortizing samadhi, image, or emotion
ways of looking, subtexts in
soulmaking: pacing
soulmaking: allowing it to spread in all directions
images: let the body lead, not demanding visual images
desire/eros
pothos in eros: always wanting more
eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
images: using the energy body to navigate
concepts/logos: importance of supportive conceptual frameworks
soulmaking: moving towards the fully imaginal
images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation
conceptual frameworks, flexibility with
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
soulmaking: participation
concepts/logos: possible meditations on ideas
soulmaking: shared logos and ontological commitments in dyads
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
10
Soulmaking Dyad Practice
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58782/
imaginal/soulmaking
twoness / balance of attention practices or instructions
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
soulmaking: temenos tail (caring for relationship after formal practice)
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
soulmaking: vulnerability of sharing images
emotions, skill with
soulmaking: temenos, alchemical vessel
concepts/logos
soulmaking: shared logos and ontological commitments in dyads
soulmaking and dukkha
soulmaking: threeness
sensitivity
desire/eros
sexuality/romantic relationships
soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
11
The Phoenix of Metaphysics (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58788/
imaginal/soulmaking
metaphysics: the personal nature of epistemology
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
metaphysics
soulmaking and emptiness
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
modern physics / quantum physics
metaphyics: ultimately unprovable assumptions
soulmaking, duty in
Middle Way of the imaginal
soulmaking: spectrum of reification in imaginal practice
Rorty, Richard
concepts/logos
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
12
The Phoenix of Metaphysics (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58789/
imaginal/soulmaking
Middle Way of the imaginal
soulmaking: spectrum of reification in imaginal practice
metaphysics
Taylor, Charles
metaphysics: the personal nature of epistemology
metaphyics: ultimately unprovable assumptions
Middle Way of emptiness
Rorty, Richard
soulmaking: participation
emptiness/insight: doubts/concerns in or about practice
soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
modern physics / quantum physics
concepts/logos
eros for unfabricating and for soulful fabrication
antinomies in values/ethics
free will vs determinism
aging/sickness/death
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
13
Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58767/
imaginal/soulmaking
ideas of/relationships with tradition
fantasies of the path
metaphysics
authenticity
for future listeners
soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
mindfulness, foundations of: fourth foundation
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
14
Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58768/
imaginal/soulmaking
ideas of/relationships with tradition
soulmaking and emptiness
metaphysics
Abulafia
existentialist Dharma
awakening: stream-entry, stages of awakening
emptiness/insight: thorough and radical emptiness
emptiness/insight: different versions and meanings of emptiness
emptiness/insight: doubts/concerns in or about practice
critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process
emptiness/insight: emptiness of impermanence
metaphysics: the personal nature of epistemology
beauty, inquiring into
inquiring
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Dharma talk listening tips: listening structurally
views of the path
concepts/logos
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
15
Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58769/
imaginal/soulmaking
ideas of/relationships with tradition
metaphysics
concepts/logos
for future listeners
soulmaking: not eclecticism but plurality and infinite possibilities
breaking of the vessels (Shevirat ha-Kelim)
philosophy: philosophers' lack of meditative training
Rorty, Richard
Hegel
generosity
imaginal practice: beyond or within Buddhadharma?
soul desire to imprint / make impression on others
soulmaking: why is soulmaking dharma complicated?
soulmaking: pacing
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
16
Sila and Soul (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58774/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
ethics/engagement
judgment/inner critic
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
metaphysics
Rorty, Richard
soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
antinomies in values/ethics
soulmaking: conflicting demands of disparate angels, antinomies
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
17
Sila and Soul (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58775/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
ethics/engagement
image as primary
metaphysics
ethics/engagement: ethics and image in psychotherapy
judgment/inner critic
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
soulmaking, duty in
Middle Way of the imaginal
Hartmann, Nicolai
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
18
Sila and Soul (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58776/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
ideational-imaginal (context: aesthetic or moral values/virtues)
self-reflexive strands of ethics, awareness, eros
Kugler, Paul
etymologies, root words, and phonetic associations
ethics/engagement
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
beauty, inquiring into
Hartmann, Nicolai
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
19
Sila and Soul (Part 4)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58777/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
ideational-imaginal (context: aesthetic or moral values/virtues)
ethics/engagement
desire/eros
metaphysics
soulmaking: participation
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
aging/sickness/death
devotion
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
Hartmann, Nicolai
dimensionality in ethics
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
20
Sila and Soul (Part 5)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58778/
imaginal/soulmaking
ideational-imaginal (context: aesthetic or moral values/virtues)
Practice: avenues for ideational-imaginal, meditation on values
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
antinomies in values/ethics
soulmaking: form of image fading, essence remaining
ethics/engagement
soulmaking: participation
judgment/inner critic
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
sensitivity
Hartmann, Nicolai
dimensionality in ethics
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
21
Sila and Soul (Part 6)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58779/
imaginal/soulmaking
Practice: avenues for ideational-imaginal, meditation on values
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
antinomies in values/ethics
ethics/engagement
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
free will vs determinism
conceptual frameworks, flexibility with
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
ideational-imaginal (context: aesthetic or moral values/virtues)
Hartmann, Nicolai
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
22
Sila and Soul (Part 7)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58785/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
antinomies in values/ethics
Kripal, Jeffrey J.
ethics/engagement
emotions: deep samadhi reducing tenderness of heart
awakening
awakening and ethics
soulmaking: conflicting demands of disparate angels, antinomies
Hartmann, Nicolai
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
23
Sila and Soul (Part 8)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58780/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
antinomies in values/ethics
ethics/engagement
sexuality/romantic relationships
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
eros being diverted to greed through lack of dimensionality
emotions / mind states: hatred
kilesas
desire/eros
soulmaking, duty in
Hartmann, Nicolai
Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light
24
Sila and Soul (Part 9)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58781/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
conceptions of dukkha and the Four Noble Truths
ethics/engagement
awakening
Hartmann, Nicolai
Student Interview
1
Practising with the Three Characteristics (1) - Dukkha
n/a
emptiness/insight
three characteristics
dukkha (suffering)
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
ways of looking, flexibility in
ways of looking, subtexts in
Student Interview
2
Practising with the Three Characteristics (2) - Dukkha
n/a
emptiness/insight
continuity: the place of continuity in practice
precision: what does 'precision' mean in practice?
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
three characteristics
dukkha (suffering)
ways of looking, flexibility in
holy discontent, holy disinterest
Online Seminar
1
Ontology and Conceptions of Reality in Dharma Practice
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4x0Nx5rGrfDuqJV6z5U8h28xAw4UCwlaVqukOZaBNM
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
metaphysics
concepts/logos
concepts and ideas are present in all perception
metaphysics: ontic status / different kinds of reality of perceptions
dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path
Online Seminar
1
Nirodha Sangha Emptiness Clinic
http://nirodha.fi/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/emptiness_webinar_rob_burbea_20190915.mp3
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
ways of looking, subtexts in
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Middle Way of emptiness
holy discontent, holy disinterest
Online Seminar
1
Cultivation and Grace in Soulmaking Dharma
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4x0Nx5rGrfDuqJV6z5U8h28xAw4UCwlaVqukOZaBNM
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: self-orientation vs. divine orientation
soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal
synchronicities
Middle Way of the imaginal
soulmaking and emptiness
goals and effort
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
soulmaking: participation
definitions: soulmaking
definitions: imaginal and sensing with soul
definitions: imaginal as a subcategory of soulmaking
soulmaking in oneness, etc., when it's a new perception
art and soul
Online Seminar
1
Stream Entry (Part 1) - Conceptions, Value and Realisations
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4x0Nx5rGrfDuqJV6z5U8h28xAw4UCwlaVqukOZaBNM
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
awakening
awakening: stream-entry, stages of awakening
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
antinomies in values/ethics
ethics/engagement
inquiring
awakening: U-tube metaphor
kilesas
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
equanimity
awakening: different kinds of liberation through eros and soul
the Unfabricated shining through this world
Online Seminar
2
Stream Entry (Part 2) - Equanimity and Enlightenment
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4x0Nx5rGrfDuqJV6z5U8h28xAw4UCwlaVqukOZaBNM
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
equanimity
awakening
metta
awakening: emptiness of awakening
awakening: U-tube metaphor
awakening: subtlizing of relationship with freedom
equanimity: ways it can arise
equanimity: types of equanimity
Online Seminar
1
Engagement and Activism
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4x0Nx5rGrfDuqJV6z5U8h28xAw4UCwlaVqukOZaBNM
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
ethics/engagement
emotions, skill with
emotions / mind states: differentiation
emotions / mind states, resourcing and cultivating skillful
metta
activism
emotions
devotion
emotions / mind states: anger as energized responsiveness
Middle Way of the imaginal
images: how to get images - the place of stretches and challenges
images: how to get images
art and soul
art's importance in the world
working with violence in society
conceptions of dukkha and the Four Noble Truths
Online Seminar
1
Emptiness Clinic I: Group Interview for Those Doing Emptiness Practices
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4x0Nx5rGrfDuqJV6z5U8h28xAw4UCwlaVqukOZaBNM
emptiness/insight
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
concepts/logos: importance of supportive conceptual frameworks
emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting
emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
emptiness: what is emptiness?
Practice: sevenfold reasoning (Chandrakirti)
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
Middle Way of emptiness
triple worth: less dukkha, opening sacredness, relative liberation
working with pain / discomfort
Online Seminar
1
Art and Dharma (Part 1)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4x0Nx5rGrfDuqJV6z5U8h28xAw4UCwlaVqukOZaBNM
other topics
art and soul
fantasies of the path
soulmaking and dukkha
fullness of intention (not primarily in service of self)
Online Seminar
2
Art and Dharma (Part 2)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4x0Nx5rGrfDuqJV6z5U8h28xAw4UCwlaVqukOZaBNM
other topics
art and soul
goals and effort
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
beauty, inquiring into
Online Seminar
1
Emptiness Clinic II: Group Interview for Those Doing Emptiness Practices
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4x0Nx5rGrfDuqJV6z5U8h28xAw4UCwlaVqukOZaBNM
emptiness/insight
samadhi/jhana
precision: what does 'precision' mean in practice?
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
ways of looking, subtexts in
samadhi
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
metaphysics
triple worth: less dukkha, opening sacredness, relative liberation
concepts/logos: importance of supportive conceptual frameworks
emptiness/insight: pacing
emptiness/insight: unfabricating more after experience becomes subtle
working with tiredness / dullness
jhana
emptiness/insight: relationship of conventional reality with emptiness
metaphysics: the personal nature of epistemology
metaphyics: ultimately unprovable assumptions
Emerge Podcast
1
Emptiness, Postmodernism, and Sacred Participation
https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Rob-Burbea---Emptiness--Postmodernism--and-Sacred-Participation-e94cqr
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
emptiness: what is emptiness?
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
ethics/engagement
soulmaking and emptiness
Middle Way of emptiness
Practising the Jhānas
1
Orienting to This Jhana Retreat
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60865/
samadhi/jhana
jhana: developing pliant, non-brittle jhanas
jhana: finding your learning edge playground
jhana: developing a base of happiness
jhana: intention in jhana
hindrances
guided meditation on devotion
malleability of perception
emotions: having the whole range of emotions
intro/overview
emotions
devotion
inertia
Practising the Jhānas
2
Counting Within the Breath (Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60863/
samadhi/jhana
guided meditation: counting within the breath
samadhi
jhana
breath meditation
Practising the Jhānas
3
The Energy Body and the Whole-body breath (Instructions and Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60884/
samadhi/jhana
guided meditation: energy body and whole-body breath
samadhi
jhana
energy body
breath meditation
Practising the Jhānas
4
An Introduction to the Jhanas
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60869/
emptiness/insight
samadhi/jhana
jhana: map of all eight jhanas
jhana: what is the point of jhana practice?
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
mystical openings and experiences
jhana: mastery of the jhanas
intro/overview
awakening
Practising the Jhānas
5
Focusing on One Point (Intensity, Directionality, Subtlety) (Instructions)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60859/
samadhi/jhana
jhana: effort in jhana
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
meditation object: focusing on one point
samadhi
jhana
energy body
Practising the Jhānas
6
Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60862/
samadhi/jhana
guided meditation: breathing with the energy body
samadhi
jhana
energy body
breath meditation
Practising the Jhānas
7
A Hidden Treasure: The Relationship with the Hindrances
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60867/
samadhi/jhana
hindrances
Practice: exchanging the happiness of self and other
jhana: effort in jhana
emotions: having the whole range of emotions
jhana
emotions
Practising the Jhānas
8
Metta Practice, and a few things about Piti (Instructions)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60871/
brahmaviharas
samadhi/jhana
piti and sukha, practicing with
jhana: metta as base/springboard practice
metta
jhana
samadhi
Practising the Jhānas
9
Attitude, Effort, Achievement, and View
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60861/
samadhi/jhana
jhana: effort in jhana
working with pain / discomfort
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
jhana: mastery of the jhanas
samadhi
jhana
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
views/orientations in practice
inertia
Practising the Jhānas
10
Q & A
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60877/
samadhi/jhana
sensitivity
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
working with pain / discomfort
samadhi
jhana
Practising the Jhānas
11
Insight Ways of Looking, Other Energy Body Possibilities, and Summarized Instructions
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60868/
emptiness/insight
samadhi/jhana
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
not-self (anatta)
piti and sukha, practicing with
jhana: insight as base/springboard practice
jhana: finding your learning edge playground
guided practice: games with the energy body
sensitivity
for future listeners
samadhi
jhana
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
energy body
Practising the Jhānas
12
Developing Piti, Developing Focus, Developing Wellbeing
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60864/
samadhi/jhana
definitions: piti and sukha
piti and sukha, practicing with
samadhi
jhana
Practising the Jhānas
13
The First Jhana, and Playing and Working in (and out of) any Jhana
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60882/
samadhi/jhana
jhana: thought in jhana
nimittas
piti and sukha, practicing with
jhanas as a continuum or discrete states
jhana: effort in jhana
jhana: SASSIE
jhana: mastery of the jhanas
jhana: piti in first jhana
jhana
Practising the Jhānas
14
Q & A
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60876/
samadhi/jhana
definitions: piti and sukha
jhana and soulmaking
image: images supporting jhanic factors
subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience
samadhi
jhana
Practising the Jhānas
15
Q & A
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60875/
samadhi/jhana
hindrances
jhana: effort in jhana
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
nimittas
jhana: SASSIE
definitions: piti and sukha
jhana: metta as base/springboard practice
samadhi
jhana
emotions
Practising the Jhānas
16
Q & A, and Short Talk
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60873/
samadhi/jhana
jhana: insight as base/springboard practice
jhana: SASSIE
piti and sukha, practicing with
emotions / mind states: fear and anxiety
samadhi
jhana
emotions
Practising the Jhānas
17
The Second Jhana
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60880/
samadhi/jhana
definitions: piti and sukha
piti and sukha, practicing with
nimittas
jhana: thought in jhana
jhana: metta in (or from) jhana
jhana: attachment to jhana
jhana: mastery of the jhanas
jhana: happiness in second jhana
jhana
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
energy body
Practising the Jhānas
18
True to Your Deepest Desires (Talk and Short Guided Meditation)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60889/
samadhi/jhana
jhana: if you've had piti, all jhanas are possible for you
hindrances
desire affects how and which experiences unfold
guided meditation on desire
Dharma talk listening tips: listening structurally
jhana
views/orientations in practice
judgment/inner critic
desire/eros
desire: inquiring into deeper desires
Practising the Jhānas
19
Q & A
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60874/
samadhi/jhana
nada sound
piti and sukha, practicing with
jhana: SASSIE
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
hindrances
emotions: having the whole range of emotions
mystical openings and experiences
samadhi
jhana
emotions
inertia
Practising the Jhānas
20
The Third Jhana
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60891/
samadhi/jhana
jhana: satellite states
piti and sukha, practicing with
jhana: peacefulness in third jhana
jhana: mastery of the jhanas
nimittas
jhana
Practising the Jhānas
21
Q & A, and Short Talk
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60887/
samadhi/jhana
emotions: transforming difficult emotions
piti and sukha, practicing with
hindrances
jhana: SASSIE
jhana: mastery of the jhanas
malleability of perception
jhana: working with locked places in body and view
samadhi
jhana
emotions
Practising the Jhānas
22
Q & A
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60872/
samadhi/jhana
sensitivity
hindrances
desire affects how and which experiences unfold
definitions: equanimity
piti and sukha, practicing with
nimittas
jhana and soulmaking
jhana: SASSIE
samadhi
jhana
desire/eros
Practising the Jhānas
23
The Fourth Jhana
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60881/
samadhi/jhana
image: images supporting jhanic factors
malleability of perception
awakening: necessary elements for liberation
definitions: equanimity
jhana: equanimity in fourth jhana
nimittas
jhana
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
awakening
Practising the Jhānas
24
Q & A
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60878/
samadhi/jhana
jhana: satellite states
piti and sukha, practicing with
not-self (anatta)
malleability of perception
samadhi
jhana
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Practising the Jhānas
25
Jhanas and Insight
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60870/
emptiness/insight
samadhi/jhana
jhana: concentration before insight (or not)
emptiness/insight: nothing independent of the way of looking
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
the Unfabricated
jhana and soulmaking
malleability of perception
conceptions of dukkha and the Four Noble Truths
conceptual frameworks, flexibility with
jhana: metta in (or from) jhana
jhana
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
views/orientations in practice
energy body
awakening
Four Noble Truths
Practising the Jhānas
26
The Fifth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Space)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60883/
samadhi/jhana
desire affects how and which experiences unfold
jhana: infinite space in fifth jhana
nimittas
jhana: SASSIE
jhana: metta in (or from) jhana
jhana and soulmaking
jhana
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
fantasies of the path
desire/eros
Practising the Jhānas
27
The Sixth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Consciousness)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60888/
samadhi/jhana
jhana: satellite states
jhana: infinite consciousness in sixth jhana
nimittas
emptiness/insight: the nature of mind or awareness
emptiness: dualistic view of fabricated vs the Unfabricated
jhana and soulmaking
jhana
Practising the Jhānas
28
The Seventh Jhana (The Realm of Nothingness)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60879/
samadhi/jhana
desire affects how and which experiences unfold
jhana: nothingness in seventh jhana
nimittas
jhana: SASSIE
jhana: metta in (or from) jhana
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
cosmopoesis: kinds of imaginal and non-imaginal cosmopoesis
jhana
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
fantasies of the path
Practising the Jhānas
29
The Eighth Jhana (The Realm of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60886/
samadhi/jhana
jhana: neither perception nor non-perception in eighth jhana
nimittas
jhana: SASSIE
jhana
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Practising the Jhānas
30
The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60885/
samadhi/jhana
the Unfabricated
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
jhana
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
karma
three characteristics
metaphysics
Practising the Jhānas
31
Going Forwards
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60860/
samadhi/jhana
practice schedules / balancing different practices
jhana: finding your learning edge playground
sexuality: does sex negatively affect practice/realization?
guided practice: dedicating the merit
desire affects how and which experiences unfold
jhana
sexuality/romantic relationships
Practising the Jhānas
32
PS - Playing in the In-Betweens
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/60866/
samadhi/jhana
nimittas
piti and sukha, practicing with
jhana: equanimity in fourth jhana
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
jhana and soulmaking
desire affects how and which experiences unfold
samadhi
jhana
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
In Psyche's Orchard
1
Emptiness and Ways of Looking
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/61070/
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
soulmaking and emptiness
soulmaking and emptiness: basis of non-realism
emptiness/insight: misunderstandings about 'ways of looking' approach
concepts and ideas are present in all perception
emptiness/insight: resting from deliberately practicing a way of looking
critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention'
critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process
emptiness of time
ways of looking, subtexts in
emptiness/insight: doubts/concerns in or about practice
ethics/engagement
soulmaking: prerequisites - healing or insight before soulmaking?
metaphysics: ontic status / different kinds of reality of perceptions
emptiness/insight: trauma as hardwired or empty
modern physics / quantum physics
karma
In Psyche's Orchard
2
The Ontology of the Soul, and the Soul of Ontology ( ... inevitably)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/61069/
imaginal/soulmaking
Middle Way of the imaginal vs emptiness Middle Way
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
metaphysics
soulmaking: spectrum of reification in imaginal practice
definitions: soul
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
existentialist Dharma
desire/eros
eros as ontologically disclosive
for future listeners
soulmaking in projects and long-term commitments
Taylor, Charles
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
emptiness of time
In Psyche's Orchard
3
Pain, as Void and as Sacrament
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/61071/
imaginal/soulmaking
working with pain / discomfort
aging/sickness/death
soulmaking and dukkha
three characteristics
not-self (anatta)
dukkha (suffering)
emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating
Mahayana
soulmaking: modulating fading in imaginal practice
Practice: exchanging the happiness of self and other
In Psyche's Orchard
4
The Image of Ethics (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/61073/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
ethics/engagement
metaphysics
Taylor, Charles
Hartmann, Nicolai
etymologies, root words, and phonetic associations
passion
ideational-imaginal (context: aesthetic or moral values/virtues)
eros as ontologically disclosive
desire/eros
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
dimensionality in ethics
In Psyche's Orchard
5
The Image of Ethics (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/61074/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
ideational-imaginal (context: aesthetic or moral values/virtues)
Practice: avenues for ideational-imaginal, meditation on values
scientism / scientific materialism / reductionism
dimensionality in ethics
prayer
ethics/engagement
metaphysics
Taylor, Charles
Hartmann, Nicolai
soulmaking: threeness
twoness / balance of attention practices or instructions
hiri and ottappa
emotions / mind states: shame or unworthiness
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
In Psyche's Orchard
6
The Image of Ethics (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/61075/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
dimensionality in ethics
ethics/engagement
metaphysics
Taylor, Charles
soulmaking: participation
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
soulmaking: re-enchanting the body
eros as ontologically disclosive
In Psyche's Orchard
7
The Image of Ethics (Part 4)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/61079/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self
ethics/engagement
metaphysics
soulmaking: telos / the angel out ahead
hiri and ottappa
emotions / mind states: shame or unworthiness
emotions / mind states: guilt or remorse
In Psyche's Orchard
8
The Image of Ethics (Part 5)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/61068/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
metaphysics: opening up ontology and epistemology
ethics/engagement
metaphysics
Taylor, Charles
emptiness/insight leads to more care and love
karma
Hartmann, Nicolai
Hegel
metaphysics: ontic status / different kinds of reality of perceptions
eros as ontologically disclosive
antinomies in values/ethics
ideational-imaginal (context: aesthetic or moral values/virtues)
beauty, inquiring into
soulmaking: spectrum of reification in imaginal practice
In Psyche's Orchard
9
The Image of Ethics (Part 6 - An Inconclusive Conclusion, or A Prolegomenon)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/61077/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking as an approach to ethics
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
metaphysics
ethics/engagement
Hartmann, Nicolai
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice
emptiness/insight: doubts/concerns in or about practice
In Psyche's Orchard
10
Practising with Death and Dying
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/61078/
emptiness/insight
imaginal/soulmaking
aging/sickness/death
Rob: four most important perspectives in relation to death
soulmaking: participation
seeing as perfect
soulmaking and dukkha
soulmaking and emptiness
modern physics / quantum physics
eros being diverted to greed through lack of dimensionality
eternality / timelessness
images: examples of navigating an image
Vajra Music
1
Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 1)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/62452/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
Dharma talk listening tips: listening structurally
Dharma talk listening tips: actively extracting meditations
critique: the practice of 'just letting go'
concept of being non-conceptual
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
sensitivity
guided practice or instructions on voice / movement
fantasies of the path
Vajra Music
2
Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 2)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/62453/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
guided practice or instructions on voice / movement
sensitivity
eros: what blocks or inhibits eros?
definitions: ensouling
modifying practices for physical/health reasons
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.)
Vajra Music
3
Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 3)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/62454/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
soulmaking: self-orientation vs. divine orientation
definitions: angel
images: how to get images
images: how to get images - the place of stretches and challenges
desire affects how and which experiences unfold
antinomies in values/ethics
definitions: soul
Vajrayana
soulmaking: comparing and contrasting with tantra
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
guided temenos / dyad exercise
blessing
guided practice or instructions on voice / movement
Vajra Music
4
Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 4)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/62455/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
guided practice or instructions on voice / movement
blessing
sensitivity
soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice
soulmaking: self-consciousness in dyad/group practices
metaphors: fire
metaphors: water, liquid
Dharma talk listening tips: listening structurally
etymologies, root words, and phonetic associations
Vajra Music
5
Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 5)
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/62456/
imaginal/soulmaking
soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice
soulmaking: prerequisites and foundations
guided practice or instructions on voice / movement
Vajra Music
6
Perfection and Christ's Blessing
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/62457/
imaginal/soulmaking
seeing as perfect
Assorted Writings
1
Blog Entries
http://www.robburbea.com/
other topics
Funeral
1
Dharma Talk Quotes
n/a
brahmaviharas
emptiness/insight
metta
central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking
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