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Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 1 - Introducing the New Curriculum: An Overview and Explanation

TASCAM DR-03

Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 6 - Exploring The Goal of the Path: What is Enlightenment? (3)

Culadasa May 2013

Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 26

Timestamps:
2:24 - Could you comment on [fire kasina or trataka] practice and say whether or not you see it as useful, in particular for working on TMI stages?

19:51 - Is there anything you retain from [your earlier Advaita Vedanta and TM practice] that you found beneficial to you on the path that you'd like to share? What are your thoughts in general on supplemental meditative practices outside of our regular TMI practice?

26:30 - Is it allowed to apply the techniques of a higher stage to achieve the goals of a lower one?

33:15 - How do right effort and equanimity fit together?

48:36 - Why do you think that those functional aspects of the mind -- information exchange and reflexive quality -- solve the hard problem of consciousness? Is your reasoning in this area intellectual, based on philosophical or scientific understanding, or rather based on the insight you've had into the ultimate nature of the mind?

57:46 - [Stage 5 practitioner describes meditative driving practice.] What do you think of this approach and is there a better way to support my practice while I am driving?

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Culadasa March 2018 Patreon Q&A

Timestamps:

7:45 - A number of people are having difficulty advancing from 2nd to 3rd path, any advice?

19:15 - Clarify Culadasa’s view of the relationship between the mind and the brain?

27:35 - What are the “5 insights” that culadasa refers to at times?

34:58 - Thoughts on meditating yourself to sleep? Meditation as an induction technique for lucid dreaming? What would be a good object of attention for doing this?

39:35 - Working with unconscious repression of thoughts (not being aware of them)

41:25 - Speaking on the power of conscious intentions, forming intentions and working with them

49:27 - How do the insights of impermanence, no-self, and interdependence of all phenomena shatter our usual, common worldviews?

58:19 - What pitfalls might we encounter when examining the previous 3 insights for ourselves?

59:40 - Importance of practicing morality within the process of awakening? Are there people who achieve awakening without practicing the 8-fold path?

1:04:05 - Culadasa’s experience with advaita and dzogchen practices, and how these may or may not relate to practices described in TMI?

1:10:32 - Importance of “staying in the clear light”. If consciousness is just the process of information exchange, then what is the “clear light”?

1:23:34 - Working with strong dullness in stages 3-4?

1:39:15 - How to strengthen metacognitive introspective awareness, especially in dealing with distractions?

1:44:47 - Advice for transitioning to longer sits? Value of longer, slower walking meditation sessions?

1:49:53 - Working with meditation when experiencing clinical depression, and what practices are most beneficial?

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Culadasa April 2018 Patreon Q&A Catch-Up

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Culadasa July 2019 Patreon Q&A

Culadasa November 2019 Patreon Q&A - Nº 2

Culadasa November 2019 Patreon Q&A - Nº 3

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Culadasa December 2019 Patreon Q&A - Nº 1 (Sunday)

Culadasa August 2013

Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 32

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 July 2019 Patreon Q&A

Culadasa, Dr. John Yates

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