The One You Feed

By Eric Zimmer

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May 16, 2018Adyshanti Part 2
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Adyashanti is a renowned and gifted spiritual teacher. He's written many books, hosts meditation retreats and speaks around the world to large audiences at a time. With such a wide audience, it's amazing that when you experience Adya's teaching, it's as if he's speaking directly to you - to your very heart. Whatever your experience with or preconceived notions of spiritual awakening, allow yourself to re-engage with the idea through this interview. As you turn the inquiry towards yourself this time, you may be surprised, moved and/or transformed by what you find - if you are brutally honest in the process.

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In This Interview, Adyashanti and I Discuss...
Self-Inquiry
Starting with I am not _____
Starting with all inclusiveness - I am _____
Being open to being wrong about things
Experiencing an "uncaused" sense of well being
Self-transcendent values
It works best in life to ______
When you have less internal conflict you treat the world in a different way than if you have more internal conflict
Removing the religious and cultural compass removes the moral north star
We reorient ourselves to comfort being the north star
Nothing mattering AND everything mattering
That Adya is oriented towards truth and love
Activities are neutral - it's what we bring to it that gives it meaning
What is it about awakening that you want?
What is meaningful moment to moment and day by day
At every moment, we are giving expression to what we value
How nothing shuts down awakening faster than judgment
The spiritual persona of "I'm going to get out of this human game" or "I'm going to be here but not really be here"
The importance of coming to grips with the human experience of imperfection...
...without turning it into an excuse for unwise behavior
Be aware of your human limitations and don't see them as "wrong"
The problematic experience of existential unworthiness
The economic catastrophe of a collective human awakening
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May 09, 2018Adyashanti on the Process and Experience of Awakening (part 1)
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Adyashanti is a renowned and gifted spiritual teacher. He's written many books, hosts meditation retreats and speaks around the world to large audiences at a time. With such a wide audience, it's amazing that when you experience Adya's teaching, it's as if he's speaking directly to you - to your very heart. Whatever your experience with or preconceived notions of spiritual awakening, allow yourself to re-engage with the idea through this interview. As you turn the inquiry towards yourself this time, you may be surprised, moved and/or transformed by what you find - if you are brutally honest in the process.our inner life.

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In This Interview, Adyashanti and I Discuss...
Eric's awakening experience
The awakened state in perpetuity
The shift in perception that happens with awakening
The paradox of wanting something like awakening yet wanting it stands in the way of having it
Will gets you to the cushion and once there, it's important to let go of it
Does one need a spiritual teacher when seeking awakening?
The teacher evoking something from vs the teacher giving something to the student
How people work with unconscious patterns
How you can't not be awakened - even if you don't feel it, it's there
Emotional conflict
Paying attention to what's recurring in you
Anything that's happened to us that was too big for us to remain conscious while we experienced it, gets trapped in our system - turned into some other emotion or it just gets stuffed and is now just there waiting for you. The universe is now asking, "can you experience this now?"
Being fine with being sad
Let everything be exactly the way it is
How dealing with life's experiences as they come transforms you
A clinched fist vs an open hand metaphor
"Let" vs "Let go"
If you can't let it go, can you let it be
Failure as part of triumph
Failing your way through something consciously can cause a sort of transformation
What it looks like to build a spiritual practice
Daily quiet meditation, Engage in some precise self-inquiry (a wonderment of "being")
How spirituality is the direct investigation of YOUR experience
The only way to get self-inquiry wrong is not to be ruthlessly honest about what's happening in your experience
The fear of getting something wrong
Think of your spiritual teacher kind of like a college professor

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May 01, 2018Mark Epstein on the Intersection of Buddhism and Psychotherapy
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Mark Epstein is a psychiatrist in private practice in NYC and the author of many books about the intersection of Buddhism and psychotherapy. He's currently the clinical assistant professor in the postdoctoral program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University. His most recent book, Advice Not Given; A Guide to Getting Over Yourself is what he talks about in this episode. His wisdom is so incredibly practical, applicable, and helpful. Ideas like whether or not naming your feelings would be a helpful strategy for you and how to work with clinging in its many forms - even the clinging to inner peace - abound in this discussion. Take a listen and enrich your inner life.
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In This Interview, Mark Epstein and I Discuss...
The Wolf Parable
His book, Advice Not Given; A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
The duality that we all struggle with
Freud and the Buddha's nearly identical conclusion
What it means to take personal responsibility for our selfish concerns
The clinging to that which gives us a sense of control over life
The clinging to that which nurtures our ego
The eightfold path of the Buddha
The conversation with his terminally ill father that inspired this book
Right View - being realistic about one's self and the nature of things
How change and death is happening all of the time, moment to moment
Trying not to try as it relates to meditation
"Take the backward step" in meditation
FInding balance in "right effort"
Exploring the feelings that we are otherwise afraid of through psychotherapy
The link between being with uncomfortable feelings and empathy to others
How anything that's happening in the body or mind can be the object of meditation
How useful it is to name a feeling
Making a feeling "intelligible" by naming it
How useful it can be to find where feelings show up in the body
When your mind is not aware of what's making you act this way (in addiction, compulsive behaviors etc) it's important to put the words on the feelings
Whether or not all emotions show up in the body
How clinging takes many forms - even the desire for inner peace
"Don't chase her, let her find you."
That our lives are made dull by our efforts to over control things

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April 25, 2018Barbara Bonner on Inspiring Generosity and Courage
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Barbara Bonner started as an art historian and then went on to spend much of her professional career in nonprofit management, fundraising and philanthropy. Most relevant to this show, Barbara is the author of two books; Inspiring Generosity and Inspiring Courage. In this episode, she talks about both, using beautiful poetry, powerful quotes, and illustrative real-life stories. If you've ever wanted to cultivate these two qualities in your life, then this episode is for you. If there's one thing Barbara does through her work, it's inspiring action towards both of these qualities in the lives of everyday people.

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In This Interview, Barbara Bonner and I Discuss...
The Wolf Parable
Her books, Inspiring Generosity and Inspiring Courage
The power of putting ourselves in the way of inspiration
How we're different at the end of a book than at the beginning
Reframing how we look at generosity
How generosity flows from a sense of abundance
How a sense of abundance flows from being generous
That generosity and courage are action verbs
The fact that you should feel a pinch when you act generously
That saying the loving-kindness meditation can be generous
What it means to lead a courageous life
How no one who was courageous seems to claim courage
The spontaneity of courage
How authenticity seems to coincide with courage
That you see a pattern of courage throughout people's lives
Post-traumatic growth
How a strong childhood isn't necessary in order to lead a full life
The role of listening in generosity and courage
How important listening is in all of life
The correlation between generosity and courage
Practicing generosity and courage and growing the ability to act on these qualities over time
How to live a life of meaning you have to step forward
"Do something every day that doesn't compute" - Wendell Berry

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April 17, 2018Ulrich Boser on How to Get Better at Learning
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Ulrich Boser is a best selling author and senior fellow with The Center for American Progress. He has been a contributing editor for US News and World Report and his work has appeared in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and Huntington Post. His latest book, Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business or School - or - How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything, will equip you with actual skills to get better at what some have called the ultimate survival tool: learning how to learn. This topic is relevant to literally everyone. To be alive is to learn and grow and change (whether we're aware of it at times or not!) so it's important to sharpen our skills in order to get better at getting better. What is discussed in this episode will confirm some of what you know about how people learn, challenge some beliefs you might have about this topic and teach you a few things in the process that will make you a better student of life.

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In This Interview, Ulrich Boser and I Discuss...
The Wolf Parable
His book, Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business or School - or - How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything
Learning how to learn
Getting better at getting better
The ultimate survival tool
Being actively engaged in the learning process
Making meaning out of something
The hypercorrection effect
Giving our brain time to make sense of the information, reflection
How critical it is to understand relationships between things
Varying the circumstances in which we learn/apply information
How it's easier to remember something new if you can hang it on to something old
A systematic approach to learning something
Value: valuing what you're learning
Target: learning small pieces of info at a time
Develop: practice & get feedback
Extend: elaborating on something, looking at it from different angles
Relate: analogies are the essence of thought, relating something to other things
Rethink: take time to process information
Metacognition: thinking about thinking
What are you going to learn and how will you know that you know it?
How intertwined emotion and cognition are
Digestible parts: learn less at a time
At 90 minutes of learning, adults are kind of done
Active learning strategies
Hypotheticals: what would happen if...
Why it's important to stay away from cramming

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April 11, 2018Tim Freke on the Evolution of the Human Psyche
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Tim Freke is a truly pioneering philosopher. His many books, talks, and retreats have touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Tim is the author of 35 books, the newest being Soul Story: Evolution and the purpose of life. As you listen to this interview, your ah-ha moments will grow in scope and scale throughout the conversation. He is a radical thinker and one of the great minds of our time. His big view of where we've been, where we are and where we're going will hit you as perhaps surprising, remarkably realistic and fundamentally inspiring. Listen and see for yourself.

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In This Interview, Tim Freke and I Discuss...
The Wolf Parable
His book, Soul Story: Evolution and the Purpose of Life
The deeper level of evolution going on inside of ourselves
The evolution of the psyche
Perhaps it's all one evolutionary journey: physical evolution, biological evolution and then an evolution of the psyche or soul
What if rather than the concept of God creating the universe, we've evolved such that we've created a god
Maybe God is where we're going towards
In life - the deepest things happen at the end
An arriving of conscious oneness
The point of view that life in the world is getting better over time
Creativity is the heart of the universe
The great religions of the world were created at a time when people still thought the world is flat. We've moved on and so can our recognition of spirituality
The ark of time pointing towards a better world now
Rather than the passing of time, perhaps it's the accumulation of the past meeting the possible.The past meeting the possible
The weight of the past that can limit us and pull us back
Paralogical thinking: both AND (not either or)
Transcend and Include
How he teaches others to have the experience of "deep awake"
Allowing vs. Pushing Away
Being pulled towards the better while living in the present
Being a spiritual being in an animal, human body
Cause and Effect, Meaning and Magic - all of the levels are interacting all of the time
The power of realistic thinking that's inspirational
Deep Awake: being spiritually awake, you experience the oneness of life and that feels like love
Waking up doesn't mean we ditch our individuality
The form of consciousness that comes through our senses which are rooted in the body
The form of consciousness that is in the psyche and imagination
The form of consciousness that questions itself and realizes that our essential nature has no form

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April 04, 2018Cheri Huber On the Impact of Our Mind on Our Direct Experience
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Cheri Huber is the author of 20 books and has been a student of zen for 35 years. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Peace Center, both in California, where she and other monks teach workshops and hold retreats. She is also a truth telling, light hearted delight to listen to. In this interview, she talks all about what is going on in our mind and how we can better work with it to produce a better experience in life. Her wisdom is so practical and so powerful. See for yourself in this transformative episode.
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In This Interview, Cheri Huber and I Discuss...
The Wolf Parable
Her book, I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about it
How the process IS the outcome
That now is the only moment there is
How the quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention
Everything comes into being, together
She doesn't believe that there's anything that ISN'T God
Our dualistic thinking
All of the ways to refer to the ego
The unique ability that humans have to experience themselves as other than life
The ego is a survival system
Believing we are not connected to life
Everything is a verb! A gerund
The illusion of being separate from life
My ego is the no to life's yes
Always asking what's lacking, what's missing, what's wrong keeps the ego as the center of the universe
How we are deeply conditioned for negativity
Awareness being able to watch the conditioned mind
I hear it in my head, it sounds like me, it must be me, it's who I am
Approach the stuff that's going on inside our heads by imagining that it's somebody next to you saying it
Recording and Listening
Make recordings of what's true, what I appreciate, what I love
Hearing what's true for you in your own voice
Talking ourselves into a life that's true
How we direct our attention is the be all and end all in life
We have these tendencies to see what's negative so we need to bring ourselves to what is true that isn't negative
We transcend the conditioned mind, we don't resist it
The key is to turn your attention away from the negative voices not to change what they are saying
The habit of going with the conversation in your head is so powerful
If we can wake up out of it, we can decide to go somewhere else in our attention
Hear Cheri Huber talk about her book, I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about it
Cheri Huber teaches that the process IS the outcome
Cheri Huber explains what she means by this: your ego is the "no" to life's "yes"
Do you believe that we are deeply conditioned for negativity or hardwired for negativity?
Here's a tip: Approach the stuff that's going on inside our heads by imagining that it's somebody next to you saying it
The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention

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March 27, 2018Rick Hanson on Growing Positive Qualities
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Rick Hanson, PhD is a Neuropsychologist, teacher and author of many books. He is the founder of the Wellspring Center for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom and an affiliate of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkley. This is the 2nd time Dr. Hanson has been a guest on the show and we invited him back because of how great his work really is. In this episode, he talks all about the fact that who we become is a result of what we grow inside of ourselves. Using the analogy of tending a garden, he teaches us very practical ways to grow and enrich ourselves through the experiences in our lives. Get a pen and paper - you'll probably want to take notes on this one!

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In This Interview, Rick Hanson and I Discuss...
The Wolf Parable
His book, Resilient: How to grow an unshakable core of calm, strength, and happiness
Who we become is a result of what we grow inside ourselves
How you manage your challenges, protect your vulnerabilities, Increase your resources: out in the world, in the body, and in the mind
Growing resources in our mind is a good focus
Converting an experience into lasting change
Slowing down content delivery so that the nervous system in our brains has a chance to receive it and rewire accordingly
5 ways to enrich a beneficial experience:
Extend the experience (make it longer)
Intensify the experience (really lean into it)
Embody the experience (how does it feel in your body and your mind)
Freshen the experience (see what's novel about it? Bring a beginners mind)
Value the experience (see the relevance to you)
Asking what is the challenge? What resource would be the most beneficial?
The mind is like a garden - to grow things, focus on:
Mindful witnessing
Mindful releasing of what's negative
Mindful receiving (replace what we release or simply receive what would be beneficial)
Fighting what's negative only makes it work
Growing a fundamental core of resilient wellbeing
Safety, Satisfaction, and Connection are basic needs we have
How it takes time to tend a garden
How adversity isn't the only way to grow in life
We have to experience what we want to grow inside
We have to turn that experience into some kind of lasting change in the brain

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March 24, 2018 Questions to Ask Yourself About Stress
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March 20, 2018Jeff Warren on How to Meditate with a Busy Brain
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Jeff Warren is a former journalist and more recently is a researcher, writer, and teacher of meditation and personal growth practices. His most recent book, written with Dan Harris, is called, Meditation for Fidgitty Skeptics: A 10% Happier How to Book. Jeff is a likable, relatable guy who carries a lot of practical wisdom in his conversational style of communicating. If you've ever felt like you're not good at meditating or that meditation just isn't for you because your brain never turns off, this interview is for you because that's how Jeff would describe himself, particularly at the beginning of his practice years ago. We all know that meditation is good for us but for many, it just feels inaccessible and out of reach. If that is how you feel, what Jeff has to share in this interview will make that gap shrink in size so much so that you can hop right over it and try again.

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In This Interview, Jeff Warren and I Discuss...
The Wolf Parable
His book with Dan Harris, Meditation for Fidgitty Skeptics: A 10% Happier How to Book
The role of meditation in living with depression
The voice in our heads
Not identifying with the voices in our heads
Coming out of the conversation in our heads
The idea of "I can't meditate"
Thinking we're supposed to stop thinking when we meditate
Changing the relationship with your thoughts
Focusing on an anchor, getting lost in thought, realizing you're lost in thought and coming back to your anchor = mediation
How quick we are to conclude that meditation isn't for us
That meditation is a practice
Celebrating the coming back from thought in meditation
Training affability during meditation
Finding enjoyment and curiosity during meditation
Asking "What's the attitude in my mind right now?" during meditation
That attitude is what you're training during meditation
Looking at the world with interest
Equanimity = a lack of pushing and pulling on experience
Opening to experience so that there's no friction
When everything has permission to express its self fully

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