Unfettered Mind

By Ken McLeod

Translator/teacher Ken McLeod provides spiritual practitioners with the essence of Buddhist practice. Ken is noted for his ability to present profound teachings and practices in clear straightforward ... more

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The podcast currently has 166 episodes available.

Unfettered Mind episodes:

July 13, 2009 Death: Friend or Foe 7 (retreat)
Peace and Clarity - The value of retreats; making the transition from retreat to ordinary life; you can’t take this experience with you; finding the peace and clarity that exists in any situation; defining awakening as experiencing whatever arises as expressions of peace and clarity.
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1h 2min
July 13, 2009 Death: Friend or Foe 6 (retreat)
How Do I Live This Experience Called Life? - Group contemplation: “I can’t know what this experience called life is -- and I can’t know what follows it. So how do I live this life?”; observing mortality brings you back into life; meditating on impermanence gives you faith, the willingness to open to everything and the energy to do so.
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1h 23min
July 13, 2009 Death: Friend or Foe 5 (retreat)
Three Gates of Freedom - Attention enables us to perceive experiences as more fluid; three Gates of Freedom: no characteristics, no hope and no ground (emptiness); two typical errors people fall into when they encounter emptiness: actions don’t matter and despair; despair as a form of checking out, avoiding experience; meditation: ¨How do I live when I can’t know what this experience of life is -- or whether anything follows it?¨
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59min
July 13, 2009 Death: Friend or Foe 4 (retreat)
Forms of Death - Many forms of death throughout life: death of beliefs, death of trust, death of enmity; we know we are aware and we are going to die; response / inquiry contemplation.
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41min
July 13, 2009 Death: Friend or Foe 3 (retreat)
I’m Going to Die. And I Have No Idea When - We can die at any time: chaos; we need to live day to day: order; the many ways we can die; are there any circumstances in which you could be guaranteed not to die?; middle way: life is neither just order nor just chaos; meditation: “I’m going to die. And I have no idea when.”
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1h 1min
July 13, 2009 Death: Friend or Foe 2 (retreat)
Everything Changes, Nothing Stays the Same - Ozymandias; exploration of “Everything changes, nothing stays the same” by means of a group contemplation called response / inquiry.
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26min
July 13, 2009 Death: Friend or Foe 1 (retreat)
Introduction - Value of contemplating death and impermanence; accept change and not hold on to what’s time has passed; sit in the whole mess; meditation: “Everything changes, nothing stays the same.”
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1h 8min
November 19, 2008 Power and Presence 10 (retreat)
Receiving the Result - Whatever the outcome, work with that: The Four Steps of Standing Up as a way of living, continually cycling. Four stages of conflict: Pacification, Enrichment, Magnetization, Destruction.
Balance, boundary, and the ethics of power. Obligation and the three bases of relationship. Courage. How power differs from other gestures (ecstasy, insight, compassion).
Fairy tale: Ransom, Return, Recognition
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1h 4min
November 19, 2008 Power and Presence 9 (retreat)
Artist and Critic - If you live for respect, you give your life over to others. How the sense of urgency often accelerates things, and we get swallowed up in the acceleration. Evolutionary paradigms: providing the _conditions_ for certain things to evolve. Applications to meditation.Fairy tale: Black Sheep
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12min
November 19, 2008 Power and Presence 8 (retreat)
Serving What is True - Difficulties in serving what is true when it doesn’t accord with expectations and understanding. Fairy tale: The Old Man with Red Eyes. How fairy tales describe internal realms of experience vs. the world of shared experience. Attention vs. Intention vs. Will. Exercise: 4-person flocks. Obstacles as simply features in the landscape to be negotiated.
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1h 13min

FAQs about Unfettered Mind:

How many episodes does Unfettered Mind have?

The podcast currently has 166 episodes available.