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

TASCAM DR-03

Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 5 - Exploring The Goal of the Path: What is Enlightenment? (2)

Upasaka Culadasa

Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 17 - The Self

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:

01:26 How do I know when I move from stream enterer to once returner? Are there any practices to accelerate the progression.

08:50 |follow up question| Is it considered craving if I intend something to happen?

13:55 What is the most likely progression on stages of awakening? (first path - second path - ...)

18:31 In TMI you emphasize not to conciously change the breath. What do you think about adjusting the breath to allow positive feelings to arise?

24:50 Since you said there is no reincarnation, does the believe in karma provide any benefit or has it any role in TMI?

32:43 Pain and suffering are two different things. If we remove the suffering is pain just a sensation?

39:05 Have you heard of or experienced the transfer of conciousness? From what or to what is the conciousness transferred?

43:01 There are so many "awakened" people who seem to behave poorly in different ways. What can a practitioner do to keep from following into that trap?

53:08 Doing stage 6 practices I noticed a change in perception of the breath at the nose (descending into the sensations, even feeling them in other parts of the body). Is this a characteristic of the acquired appearance?

55:36 |follow up question| If the perception of the breath shifts, how/where do I define the scope of attention?

59:35 What do you know about koan practice and its nature and function on the path? Are there any parallels to Terravada or Tibetan Buddhism?

1:05:16 Would have TMI been approached any differently if one were already a stream enterer?

1:07:12 Does someone doing TMI go through the stages of insight in a different way than a dry vipassana practitioner? (dark night and dukkha nanas)

1:13:12 |continuation| Does one cycle through the stages repeatedly and does insight ever end?

1:17:13 I didn´t read about first path and so forth in the book, but it gets mentioned quite a lot. Do I have an old version? Culadasa then talks about his upcoming book (on different stages of awakening).

1:20:35 Culadasa talks about the deepening of jhana , the first luminous jhana and fire kasina.

1:28:45 Do the skills that are developed in meditation spill over in daily life?


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Culadasa January 2018 Patreon Q&A

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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 November 2013

Culadasa's Curriculum, Part, 37

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

Culadasa, Dr. John Yates