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Miguel Chen on Punk Rock and Buddhism

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Miguel Chen is a meditation practitioner, a yoga instructor, a yoga studio owner and the bass player for a punk rock band. He has also published a book called I Wanna Be Well: How a Punk Found Peace and You Can Too. In this compelling episode, Eric and Miguel explore the connection between punk rock and Buddhism and they dive into the experiences in his life – both traumatic and positive – that have shaped his spiritual path of awakening.

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 In This Interview, Miguel Chen and I Discuss…

  • His book, I Wanna Be Well: How a Punk Found Peace and You Can Too
  • How he owns a yoga studio and plays in a punk rock band
  • The way he suppressed grief for dead family members
  • Asking himself why he wasn’t happy
  • The connection between punk rock and Buddhism
  • The other as self
  • Forgetting who we are
  • The importance of being mindful throughout life
  • Not being present with stuff we like
  • Not being present with stuff we don’t like
  • Eating mindfully
  • How if you’re used to disconnecting from things you don’t like, it starts creeping into the things you do like
  • How he stays in the present moment
  • Training the mind
  • His morning routine
  • Non-attachment
  • Being criticized for his spiritual practice
  • His spiritual practice while on tour
  • The danger of taking people in life for granted
  • How grateful he is that he woke up early in his life
  • Why some people get motivated to get sober and others don’t

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Chris Bailey on Focus, Productivity and Meditation

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Chris Bailey ran a year-long productivity project where he studied and ran experiments on the subject. To date, he’s written hundreds of articles on the topic which have been published in places like the Huffington Post, The New York Times and LifeHacker. In this episode, Chris and Eric discuss his new book, Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction and they cover many topics and techniques to improve your focus and productivity. In addition to being a lovely person, he is also a true expert on this topic and you’ll walk away with useful information, no matter how productive you are to begin with.

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In This Interview, Chris Bailey and I Discuss…

  • His new book, Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World  of Distraction
  • That what we notice is what we become
  • The state of our attention determines the state of our lives
  • The hourly awareness chime
  • How our mind gravitates to things that are any of these three things: pleasurable, threatening or novel
  • The measures he uses to determine the quality of attention: how long we can hold our focus, how long our mind wanders, how much of our time we can spend with intention
  • How we feel when we use our time well
  • The pain of using time wastefully
  • The Rule of 3 (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly)
  • Text Expander
  • The natural rhythm of our attention
  • Being kind to our mind
  • Our minds are built to wander
  • Approaching our wandering minds with curiosity
  • Keeping a distractions list
  • Scatter focus

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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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Mark Epstein on the Intersection of Buddhism and Psychology

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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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225: Tim Freke

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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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223: Rick Hanson #2

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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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