Awakening and the Search For Meaning with Dr. Daniel Ingram
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- I’m joined by Dr. Daniel Ingram. Daniel’s book, Mastering The Core Teachings of the Buddha, is well-known in spiritual circles due, in part, to a mixture of practical instruction, lucid insight, useful maps, and common sense. His teachings are controversial to some, compelling for many, mostly due his bold declaration that “enlightenment is an attainable goal, once our fanciful notions of it are stripped away.”
My interest in Daniel’s work is that he’s clearly one of the most advanced meditation experts alive today, with profound insight matched by a down-to-Earth approach that has consideration for common misconceptions, false promises, ego traps, and the “dark side” of awakening.
Our illuminating conversation is inspired by the relationship between awakening and meaning. We cover mental health, the value of Western psychology and blind spots of Eastern traditions, perfectionist models, why not all meditative skills are transferable, synchronicity and the nature of the Now, the World of Experience vs. the World of Meaning, the dark side of wizardry, and the usefulness of philosophy and concepts, plus much more.
Resources and References:
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: www.mctb.org
The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium: theeprc.org
00:00 Intro
09:30 Awakening and Psychological Issues
18:30 Perfectionist Models
22:30 Meditative Skills vs. Relational Skills
28:30 World of Experience vs. World of Meaning
40:00 Synchronicity and the Nature of the Now
45:00 The Poetic and Its Interpretations
59:30 The Utility of Concepts
01:03:00 The Magician Archetype and Chaos
01:13:00 Flow State vs. Equanimity
01:25:00 Teachings Not Teacher
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👐🏽 brilliant 🙌🏽 Daniel is ridiculously intelligent
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Regarding Actualism, I don’t have much to say beyond my essay on it, and that all feels long ago, so that essay will be fresher and more accurate than my fading memories.
Great essay. I wasn't familiar with actualism but looking into it, it seems to (directly or indirectly) inspire a significant number of younger generation non-dual teachers. I doubt it's surprising that I'm highly, highly skeptical of their claims of everlasting freedom and eradication of any emotion other than bliss and love, but maybe I'm just a bitter, jealous, mentally-ill-person-in-recovery.
Your description of the effect of the modality seems to describe the state I referred to in our talk as enchantment. The saturation of wonder and delight in life's beauty is its signature, a kind of glimmering and joyous field of energy that permeates perception, particularly in the visual, to the extent the direct experience of colour or texture, in all its simplicity and magnificence, moves me to tears. What's not to like about that. Your reflection provides orientation in how to stablise that state so it feels less pure chance and more deliberate - thank you 🙏🏻!
Do you still have PCE's or are you past it now? I read quite a bit about your experiences on your site with the super long page of information that's been copy pasted from dharma overground. Almost done with the whole page.
@@user-fg3fv9hl3b PCEs as an option, direction, etc. seems to have vanished with the last shift I mention in the article. Make of that what you will. 🙏
The shadow darkness synchronicity after talking about synchronicities got me spooked 😂
Beautiful conversation. If you have broad taste of various spritual territories and are not bound by any one of them, there is so much to learn and practice from this conversation. Ricky, you are a wonderful host. And Daniel, you keep blowing my mind with your clarity again and again. Bow
Thanks for such beautiful feedback 🙏🏻. Broad taste and an unbounded mind is the way to go!
Best description ever on the realm of attentional focus
The perspectives on equanimity are soo insightful! Thank you!!!
Wow. Thank you 😊
Wonderful conversation.
Thanks for the video! Personally I am not a fan of the 'spiritualish' music in the intro - imho it is a bit too new-agey for me.
If you interview him again please ask him about his experience with actualism. And I suggest you try and interview Shinzen Young.
I will explore the recommendation, thank you 🙏🏻
Interview Jeffery Martin and ask him how enlightenment effects the brain and how actualism is related to it
Humanism was not the intent for most religions.