Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Shadow (Feb 11 2007) part 1

2:24 - personal manner is not the test for enlightenment

3:05 - your odds of getting enlightenment are greatly improved if you get your structures in shape so that they can be dropped

17:07 - techniques like 3 - 2 - 1 and Big Mind are first grade, intro only, shortcuts to give beginners a taste

17:35 - of course it should go without saying that you must go deeper in shadow work

22:21 - there's more truth in a bigger view (the reason for sangha, community)

22:51 - transformations are usually not fun

24:59 - good teachers produce students greater than themselves

28:16 - what should be negated and what should be preserved in the traditions

28:27 - we are at the edge of the fourth turning

28:47 - a lot of dying is involved

38:05 - bad things happening to you are not necessarily your doing, some things are genuinely chance happenings

38:28 - taking the karma generated by the other three quadrants and making the upper left quadrant solely responsible is a misunderstanding

43:46 - the west has a wonderful contemplative tradition that didn't really get woven into the culture as well as the eastern contemplative traditions did in theirs

43:57 - but western culture did allow orange to develop, in a way it didn't in the east

50:59 - when you work with a partner, your advancement can be more rapid

51:28 - a partner can catch your blind spots

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