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Talk titled: "Freedom, Reality, and the Razor's Edge", given during the event "Unbinding the Heart". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2009-09-12.
Topics covered: working with subtle reification/self-identification, clarity/vividness as a stage or bandwidth of unfabricating, personality level - working with reified self, self-views, noticing and practicing with, emptiness/insight: unfabricating more after experience becomes subtle, subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience, critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process, emptiness/insight: stepping-stones, insight building on insight, emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world, emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence, the unfabricated, emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating, emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences, emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting, emptiness/insight: fading or logic and analysis as ways in, beyond spaciousness/the vastness of awareness
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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/9822
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/52e4b92916a5398aa5b2a92a06ff614f/a932aa29/2009_0912FreedomRealityandtheRazorsEdge.pdf
Talk titled: "Freedom, Reality, and the Razor's Edge", given during the event "Unbinding the Heart". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2009-09-12.
Topics covered: working with subtle reification/self-identification, clarity/vividness as a stage or bandwidth of unfabricating, personality level - working with reified self, self-views, noticing and practicing with, emptiness/insight: unfabricating more after experience becomes subtle, subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience, critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process, emptiness/insight: stepping-stones, insight building on insight, emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world, emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence, the unfabricated, emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating, emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences, emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting, emptiness/insight: fading or logic and analysis as ways in, beyond spaciousness/the vastness of awareness
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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/9822
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/52e4b92916a5398aa5b2a92a06ff614f/a932aa29/2009_0912FreedomRealityandtheRazorsEdge.pdf
