Find Broderick at www.brodericksawyer.com

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Overview

Today, I speak with Dr.Broderick Sawyer about skillfully navigating relationships and egoic attachments, practices for cultivating attention and compassion, sex and sexuality, working with the energies of emotion, masculinity, shame and trauma.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction 04:45 Working with the Ego 06:45 Relationship & Emotion13:15 Sexual Energy & Celibacy 20:40 Working with Emotions26:15 Sex, Porn, Sublimation33:50 Masculine Strength37:30 Authenticity & Attachment44:50 Shame & Pathology53:00 Radical Blamelessness1:02:00 Attention & Compassion1:09:55 Practice & Accountability

References

00:0004:45 Ego, Wikipedia07:20 Black Theology, Wikipedia15:55 Brahmacarya, Wikipedia1:02:05 Hinayana, Wikipedia1:04:35 Sangha, Wikipedia1:06:05 Mahayana, Wikipedia1:06:15 Vajrayana, Wikipedia

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