0:55 - the name of this game is transcend and include
1:31 - negate and preserve
1:39 - to grow you have to get bigger, to get bigger you have to let go of something smaller and grab hold of something bigger - there's a death and a life in every transformation
3:31 - the benefit of green was the multicultural respect, but without the integration
4:32 - the contribution of the west was the ability to take a global view, beyond a limited local view (attaining a high structural development)
5:25 - the contribution of the east and contemplative western traditions was the development of states
15:49 - five states in vajrayana and vedanta: waking (gross), dreaming (subtle), formless / deep sleep (causal), everpresent / witness, and nondual
22:50 - cognitive structures usually run one or two stages ahead of the self (center of gravity)
23:17 - phenomena arise, events arise, all being produced by the ultimate ground
23:40 - we can come to the awareness that phenomena and things are arising within our awareness
24:34 - we practice to deepen our structures and states
24:49 - and dysfunction can occur at any point
25:44 - the process is: you're in fusion with a state, you differentiate from it, then you integrate it
25:55 - remaining in fusion with a state is remaining attached, embedded, fused, fixed
26:04 - if the rest of your awareness continues to grow, this fused part will split off as a sub-personality (and will appear to you as other)
26:22 - for example, if you have become fixated with anger, you may see the entire world as angry, and as angry at you
26:36 - your feeling (phenomenology) is not enough to correct this, because you can't feel the problem
26:58 - psychodynamic treatment and interpretive therapy is necessary
27:08 - when we feel an emotion when we encounter an event, getting in touch with our feeling is insufficient; we must get in touch with the event
27:16 - that's how we find our shadow
29:37 - movement is changing predominant orientation of concern
31:26 - if you think losing your orientation of concern and identification with the gross, physical realm is something, losing your identification with the soul (going from subtle to causal) is a wallop
31:56 - losing that is usually the dark night (although really there are dark nights at each switch point)
32:22 - the insight of the nondual or tantric traditions: the goal is not to get off of samsara into nirvana; nirvana is not other than samsara, samsara is not other than nirvana
32:44 - dying to dying, letting go of letting go
33:34 - pathologies can happen at any point
35:12 - the nondual or tantric insights of vajrayana caused the rediscovery of the importance of the physical realm
36:55 - attaining advanced transpersonal and meditative states doesn't heal shadows or compensate for inadequate line development; you can't cover your structures by your states
38:20 - these waters are extremely tricky to navigate; attaining an advanced transpersonal state can actually trigger a regression (I call it the missionary urge)
45:17 - moving through a structure takes about five years
49:08 - the shadow cannot be seen by definition
52:26 - people make the mistake of thinking that Buddhism is about emptying the mind, having no thoughts
54:09 - there are times when you suspend the intellect, but it is a useful tool that can accomplish great things
55:10 - the east did not have structures or the shadow in their maps
56:12 - emotions such as anger can become repressed and denied in bodhisattva vows to not get angry
56:41 - the advice is to continue to apply the dharma practices and it will be taken care of, but that's not the case
57:23 - the by now perennial issue: spiritual teachers who are advanced in states but not in structures
57:33 - the pathologies particularly are in the physical realm
58:00 - some aspects of structures can be so deeply repressed that meditation will never uncover them
59:38 - an important contribution of the west: the separation of the value spheres; ethical, cognitive and aesthetic (morals, science and art; the good, the true and the beautiful)
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