Name: Apatheia Versus Disinterest by Three Awakenings in Next
Duration: 5 min 21 s
Description: Christopher Murphy responds to the question from a student: is disinterest equal to detachment or apatheia? Can overwhelming disinterest arise on its own on the course of the spiritual path?

Therapeia and Creating Harmony With the Universe

Christopher Murphy responds to the question from a student: is disinterest equal to detachment or apatheia? Can overwhelming disinterest arise on its own on the course of the spiritual path?

Apatheia Versus Disinterest

Christopher emphasizes the importance of developing an inner gaze and self-awareness to counter the mind’s habitual movement from stillness to obsession and distraction. Instead of fixating on the contents of the mind, one should observe the mechanisms behind them, recognizing that enlightenment is a natural, unconditional state, while suffering is conditioned and self-created.

Undoing the Mind's Conditioning

Christopher Murphy describes how cultivating a curiosity and attentiveness to the mind in meditation may lead to a state of dharana, an effortless state of concentration.

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Taking an Interest in the Mind

Christopher Murphy discusses the process of stepping out of experience, to then witnessing the knower of the experience, to then stepping beyond association with knowledge. (Extract from a Q&A, March 23, 2025) 

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Photo attribution: 8th century Vishnu avatar Vamana taking one of three colossal steps at Virupaksha Shaivism temple, Pattadakal Hindu monuments Karnataka, Ms Sarah Welch, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Association with Thoughtless Awareness

Christopher Murphy describes the troublesome nature of the problem-making mind and how to practice radical acceptance. (Part of a lecture offered on November 8, 2020)

The Problem-Making Mind

Introduction to Plato's Phaedo by Christopher Murphy.

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01. The Soul: Plato's Phaedo pt.1

Part Four of Christopher Murphy's reading and comments on Plato's Phaedo

Plato's Phaedo pt.5

Christopher investigates the subjects of enlightenment and liberation, the problems surrounding them in the modern spiritual climate, and what these ideas might mean for us now.

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Modern Ideas and Problems surrounding Enlightenment and Liberation

Christopher teaches about how to develop a healthy relationship to our emotions and use them as supports on the Path.

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Transforming Emotions

Philosophy is the pathless path; our inborn search for Truth. It is the hope of Christopher Murphy that through his teaching endeavors he can remind others of this innate search for Truth and empower them to see the Eternal with their own eyes.

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Apatheia Versus Disinterest

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