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Talk titled: "Doubt and Discernment (Part 2)", given during the event "Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2017-02-06.
Topics covered: soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice, eros and craving, distinguishing and working with, sensitivity, soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal, eros being diverted to greed through lack of dimensionality, soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing, jhana, desire/eros, soulmaking and dukkha, soulmaking and emptiness, middle way of the imaginal, soulmaking in oneness, etc., when it's a new perception, images: expanding one's range of image and fantasy, soulmaking: devotional erotic-imaginal, soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
Teacher's note on suitability: please note: this series of talks is intended for experienced practitioners who have already developed some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. in particular, it is strongly recommended that before approaching this set you study and work with the material from the following talks and series: the theatre of selves (parts 1 - 3); approaching the dharma, part 1 (unbinding the world), and part 2 (liberating ways of looking); the three-part series questioning awakening, buddhism beyond modernism, in praise of restlessness; image, mythos, dharma (parts 1 - 3); an ecology of love (parts 1 - 4); the path of the imaginal (longer course); and re-enchanting the cosmos: the poetry of perception. integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course.
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40169
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/100e6249ac35c0014434332f60d8cc62/7a959bc3/2017_0206DoubtandDiscernmentPart2.pdf
Talk titled: "Doubt and Discernment (Part 2)", given during the event "Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2017-02-06.
Topics covered: soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice, eros and craving, distinguishing and working with, sensitivity, soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal, eros being diverted to greed through lack of dimensionality, soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing, jhana, desire/eros, soulmaking and dukkha, soulmaking and emptiness, middle way of the imaginal, soulmaking in oneness, etc., when it's a new perception, images: expanding one's range of image and fantasy, soulmaking: devotional erotic-imaginal, soulmaking: discernment and delineation in soulmaking
Teacher's note on suitability: please note: this series of talks is intended for experienced practitioners who have already developed some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. in particular, it is strongly recommended that before approaching this set you study and work with the material from the following talks and series: the theatre of selves (parts 1 - 3); approaching the dharma, part 1 (unbinding the world), and part 2 (liberating ways of looking); the three-part series questioning awakening, buddhism beyond modernism, in praise of restlessness; image, mythos, dharma (parts 1 - 3); an ecology of love (parts 1 - 4); the path of the imaginal (longer course); and re-enchanting the cosmos: the poetry of perception. integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course.
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/40169
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/100e6249ac35c0014434332f60d8cc62/7a959bc3/2017_0206DoubtandDiscernmentPart2.pdf
