Timestamps:

0:03 What is the distinction between (1) awareness, (2) consciousness, (3) mind and (4) buddha nature. 

19:40 Is it possible to progress through the 10 stages and become awakened through using walking meditation as the main practice? 

26:30 How does the Stage 5 body scan and the cultivation of awareness of prana in Indian yogic practices and qi in Chinese practices such as Tai Chi and Qigong relate to each other? How are they related to the phenomenon on piti/priti? Can one experience piti at stage 5? 

36:40 Are there different degrees(intensities) of craving (or the hindrances in general)? If so, are this degrees related with the amount of conditioning that is beyond their manifestation? 

45:20 There are retreats where people may be asked to stay awake for 24 or 48 hours or even longer. What is your opinion on this? 

48:55 Description of a state of tranquility. What happened to me, and how can I achieve this again? 

52:40 Characteristics of access concentration, one-pointedness and absorption. Can metta practice assist in achieving and sustaining these mind states?

1:07:20 What role do perceptual and sensory changes ("centerlessness", an opening up of the visual field and Luminosity amongst other things) play in the path? 

1:17:35 Can you speak about your experience of going through the awakening process as a lay person in a committed relationship? 

1:21:15 What advice would you give someone who is is suffering from complacency due to recent stream-entry? 

1:23:30 What is your take on why there is so few people at and beyond third path? 

1:30:00sTinnitus.

1:33:40 Culadasa's health and projects. 


Buy Culadasa's books on Amazon: amazon.com/author/culadasa

Follow Culadasa on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Culadasa.John.Yates

Much more at: culadasa.com

Culadasa February 2018 Patreon Q&A

Culadasa (John Yates, Ph.D.) is a meditation master with over four decades of experience in the Tibetan and Theravadin Buddhist traditions. He taught physiology and neuroscience in college for many years. Later, he worked at the forefront of healthcare education and therapeutic massage, serving as the founding director of the West Coast College of Massage Therapy. Culadasa retired from academia in 1996, moving with his wife into an old Apache stronghold in the Arizona wilderness, where they deepened their spiritual practice together. He currently leads the Dharma Treasure Buddhist Sangha in Tucson, Arizona and holds retreats across the United States.
 
Culadasa’s book, The Mind Illuminated, is the first comprehensive guide to Buddhist meditation for a Western audience. It combines age-old teachings with the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, providing meditators with step-by-step guidance for every stage of the path – from your very first sit, all the way to mastery of the deepest states of peace and insight. This is the clear, friendly, and in-depth meditation manual that people have been waiting for.

Culadasa February 2018 Patreon Q&A

Culadasa, Dr. John Yates