A State of Mind

When the Buddha Needs Therapy with Keith Martin-Smith

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Keith sits down with Julian to discuss his new book, 'When the Buddha Needs Therapy.'

Keith is a long time meditator, martial artist and author of several books, including A Heart Blown Open and The Heart of Zen.

Learn more about Keith at: https://www.keithmartinsmith.com

Partial List of Topics in Chronological Order:

  • How Keith is a Long time martial artist
  • Bringing together embodiment practice, Buddhist meditation, attachment theory &trauma
  • How premodern societies were more securely attached
  • Exploring how many of our psychological issues are a product of our contemporary world which premodern societies did not experience
  • Meditation as a way to dissolve ego identities
  • How your practice can only go as deep as the amount of safety you can access & how that is related to attachment wounding.
  • Anxious attachment style with cell phones
  • The way in which becoming awake or enlightened leads to much more effective activity in the world
  • Adyashanti said that 90% of the questions he received are basically a version of “How do I get away from the present moment?”
  • Looking at the attachment issues of putting young children into monasteries
  • The role of social status given to spiritual or meditation practice or practitioners
  • How every society has a role and value for a kind of shaman/yogi/monk figure
  • The psychedelic renaissance and how medicines are encouraging our evolution and to honor that practice again
  • Integrating Eastern and Western science
  • Spiritual emergencies and not having cultural contexts for spiritual experiences
  • How a long meditation retreat can disrupt the default mode network of the mind in a way that is similar to psychedelic use
  • The ways in which intensive meditation can bring about a traumatic response
  • How the meditation traditions aren’t equipped to handle trauma
  • Keith’s point that meditation cannot touch or transform psychological issues which are truly in the shadow or unconscious mind.
  • The teaching that no one has ever MADE you angry
  • Anger in its most simple terms is clarity
  • You can’t get angry if you don’t care
  • Tribalism and Conformity
  • Levels of Development

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