Episode Details

It's pretty much impossible to change our systems without first changing ourselves. But what is our "self" anyways? Here's how to use a simple question to add rocket fuel to your meditation practice and wake up from the dream that we are separate, struggling beings apart from the rest of life. Video and transcript here.

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Topic List:

00:00 Intro

00:37 Meditation Vs. inquiry, what’s the purpose of inquiry

05:10 Who are you? 

08:41 Hitting the fear barrier, the doubt barrier, the thought trap

16:50 Inquiry and the identity shift of awakening, dissolution of ego

19:53 Resistance & shadow

24:27 Obstructing beliefs/thoughts common to the process

27:35 Self-inquiry vs. surrendered inquiry into the nature of reality post awakening, non-duality

32:10 Surrendering to unfiltered, self-less reality

36:12 Why the smartest people have the most trouble with this

38:20 Investigating the imagined self, the science of no-self

41:39 Can the experience of unfiltered reality be destabilizing, the goal of liberation

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