The ZDoggMD Show

Taking the Exquisite Risk (with Simon Brown)


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A spontaneous conversation between two friends walking the path together. Why 'you're already awake' can be harmful, the impossibility of bypassing the hard painful work, K-Pop Demon Hunters as dharma transmission, and much more. Full video here.

Simon Brown's YouTube channel is here and his free Substack is here.
Here's our earlier podcast on trauma.
And here's our prior talk on compassion.
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0:00 Introduction - Spiritual Friendship Across the Atlantic

2:22 "You're One of the Dearest People I Turn To"
4:00 The Mind Creates the Abyss, The Heart Crosses It
5:00 The Relational Intimacy That's More Than Its Parts
7:00 Hell Is Other People vs. Recognition of Non-Separation
10:00 Opening the Clown Chakra (Becoming Baba Z-Dogg)
12:00 Why Ram Dass Makes You Cry Instantly
16:00 Alan Watts AI Warnings
18:00 Ram Dass's Journey from Harvard to Surrender
20:00 "He Can See All of Me and Still Loves Me"
23:00 Ram Dass's Decades of Practice (Not Just Surrender)
25:00 "Everything's Already Awake" - Why This Message Can Make People Sick
28:00 Unbearable Compassion and Meeting People Where They Are
33:00 Delusion as Seeing Incorrectly What's Actually Here
35:00 The Problem with One-and-Done Awakening
38:00 "You're Going to Die. Everyone You Know Will Die"
41:00 Ram Dass Holding Hands of Strangers as They Die
44:00 Only Sensible Response Is Compassion
47:00 Turn Towards the Unconditioned/Deathless
52:00 Society's Duality and Taking Sides
57:00 The Pure Freedom Beyond Conditions
1:00:00 Play, Spontaneity, and Shame
1:03:40 The Goldfish Bowl Story - How Play Gets Beaten Out
1:07:00 "This Really Hurt and I Love You"
1:09:00 The Trance of Unworthiness We All Inherit
1:13:34 K-Pop Demon Hunters as Liberation Teaching
1:16:00 Barbie Movie and Repressed Emotion
1:18:00 Perfect Days - Liberation Through Cleaning Toilets
1:21:00 "It's a Wonderful Life" and the Universal Heart
1:24:00 What's Gone That You Don't Notice
1:27:00 Taking the Exquisite Risk of Vulnerability
1:28:40 "Pee Here Now" - The Non-Dual Amusement Park

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