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Culadasa Part 1-How Our Minds Work

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Culadasa is a meditation master with over 4 decades of experience in the Tibetan and Theravadan Buddhist traditions. He taught classes in neuroscience and psychology at the Universities of Calgary and Brittish Columbia. He now lives in the Arizona wilderness and leads the Dharma Treasure Buddhist Sanga. His book on meditation, The Mind Illuminated, is the book Eric calls the best book on meditation he’s ever read. This is a two-part interview. In this episode, part one, Eric and Culadasa talk about how the mind and brain works – knowledge that is essential to understand before one can successfully implement the meditation techniques that will be discussed in part two. These techniques have the very real potential of transforming your meditation experience. So listen up in this episode and get ready to radically re-understand this thing we call the mind.

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In This Interview, Culadasa and I Discuss…

  • His book, The Mind Illuminated
  • How the mind and the brain works
  • The basic distinction between attention and awareness
  • How when we give labels to something we can know and understand it better
  • The moments of consciousness model
  • Non-perceiving moments of consciousness
  • The dullness of meditation
  • Sleepiness in meditation
  • The goal of vipassana is to increase the total power of our cognitive abilities
  • The mind system model (how the mind works)
  • The conscious and unconscious mind
  • Sensory sub-mind (taking in info through senses)
  • Discriminating sub-mind (cognitive thinking/feeling)
  • These sub-minds are competing for attention
  • The conscious mind is a place that the sub-minds project into
  • The power of setting intentions on the sub-minds
  • The role of the narrating sub-mind
  • We are a collection of the processes of the sub-minds
  • Making intellectual sense of the experience of not-self

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A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other. 

One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear.

The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”

The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feed 

The Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable.

This parable goes by many names including:

The Tale of Two Wolves

The Parable of the Two Wolves

Two Wolves

Which Wolf Do You Feed

Which Wolf are You Feeding

Which Wolf Will You Feed

It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs

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