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Talk titled: "Image, Ethics, and Awakening (Q & A)", given during the event "Roots into the Ground of Soul". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2019-03-29.
Topics covered: ethics/engagement, awakening, soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice, soulmaking: care in working with imaginal figures of actual people, sexuality/romantic relationships, soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal, sexual energy, working with, critique: rapid seeing of impermanence, working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies, dark nights, kundalini explosions, and rapid impermanence, impermanence (anicca), images: examples of navigating an image, images: what is an image?, antinomies in values/ethics, emotions: deep samadhi reducing tenderness of heart
Teacher's note on suitability: please note: the talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by catherine mcgee and rob burbea, for practitioners already familiar with soulmaking dharma. the teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
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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/58612
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/5efa27238f8919f997d5ba194695b5c4/0c23d1e7/2019_0329ImageEthicsandAwakeningQandA.pdf
Talk titled: "Image, Ethics, and Awakening (Q & A)", given during the event "Roots into the Ground of Soul". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2019-03-29.
Topics covered: ethics/engagement, awakening, soulmaking: movement, mudras, and voice, soulmaking: care in working with imaginal figures of actual people, sexuality/romantic relationships, soulmaking: sexual erotic-imaginal, sexual energy, working with, critique: rapid seeing of impermanence, working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies, dark nights, kundalini explosions, and rapid impermanence, impermanence (anicca), images: examples of navigating an image, images: what is an image?, antinomies in values/ethics, emotions: deep samadhi reducing tenderness of heart
Teacher's note on suitability: please note: the talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by catherine mcgee and rob burbea, for practitioners already familiar with soulmaking dharma. the teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
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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/58612
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/5efa27238f8919f997d5ba194695b5c4/0c23d1e7/2019_0329ImageEthicsandAwakeningQandA.pdf
