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Talk titled: "The Experience of Self (Personality and Beyond)", given during the event "Meditation on Emptiness". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2010-01-22.
Topics covered: self-views, noticing and practicing with, emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world, emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness, judgment/inner critic, personality level - working with reified self, emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
Teacher's note on suitability: please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. the talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
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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/9551
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/55107d75500a6934ec8cb1600d20386c/77f3991f/2010_0122TheExperienceofSelf-PersonalityandBeyond.pdf
Talk titled: "The Experience of Self (Personality and Beyond)", given during the event "Meditation on Emptiness". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2010-01-22.
Topics covered: self-views, noticing and practicing with, emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world, emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness, judgment/inner critic, personality level - working with reified self, emptiness/insight: understanding, not just having experiences
Teacher's note on suitability: please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. the talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series.
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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/9551
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/55107d75500a6934ec8cb1600d20386c/77f3991f/2010_0122TheExperienceofSelf-PersonalityandBeyond.pdf
