Shadow and Disowned Self (Feb 25 2007) part 5

1:49 - meditation is not a cure all

3:19 - we need both relative and absolute practices

5:30 - attaining awakening does not eliminate the separate self sense

9:14 - two things transmigrate, wisdom and virtue

9:32 - wisdom is understanding of emptiness (absolute bodhicitta)

9:52 - virtue is your capacity for compassion (relative bodhicitta)

13:26 - once again, you do not lose the ego when you advance spiritually; you lose exclusive identification with it

14:08 - if the fear is very extreme, you know you've struck gold

15:12 - it's hard to do this without a teacher

17:21 - when Big Mind is touched, there is no fear because there is nothing outside of Big Mind, and there is no grasping or desiring for the same reason

22:11 - the more types of self you create, the more types of death there are to die (creating stepping stones out of tombstones)

32:52 - Buddhism might be attractive to someone with a borderline sense of self to begin with

37:24 - prematurely letting go of an attachment can be experienced as a death