States (Nov 6 2006) part 4

2:07 - two truths doctrine, two kinds of awareness

3:31 - pure awareness is seen through a particular perspective

4:24 - pure awareness doesn't give you access to higher stages

5:28 - Japanese zen masters supported atrocities - why?

6:26 - you can be enlightened at any stage

10:58 - your altitude colors/informs/structures your observations

14:42 - where is Santa Claus? Where is the square root of -1?

17:21 - different forms of body work allow access to different states

17:42 - practicing in a group of more developed practitioners accelerates your development, objectively and subjectively

18:32 - does it make sense to practice in the company of individuals who are at a more vertically advanced stage?

19:29 - body movement creates an energetic state in the body and a correlative state of consciousness

20:15 - Sophia Diaz and South Indian temple dancing

21:13 - eight years of practice before you're allowed a public performance

21:24 - every body movement not only elicits a state of consciousness in the person doing the dance,

21:35 - but will elicit the same state of consciousness in the person watching the dance

21:44 - hundreds of body positions and movements designed to evoke the subtlest shades of consciousness

22:56 - if you're in a group that's a tad ahead in structure development and state development, it can help accelerate your own development

23:13 - this is true due to modeling, and because of subtle energy generation

25:05 - the more you're plunged into states of consciousness that are higher than your present state, then not only do you open to these states, you more quickly develop through stages

25:25 - peak experiences of higher structures can't happen

26:44 - meditation can move adults through stages consistently

27:36 - the energies of meditation can be used to cement the values of any level

28:30 - yoga is a practice in its own right

30:09 - does marathon meditation correct emotional imbalances?

30:54 - he was learning profound things of freedom, but not much of fullness

31:02 - freedom is in touch with nirvana, fullness is in touch with samsara

38:24 - the ascending path selects for cognitive emphasis, de-emphasizing emotion and interpersonal

44:11 - present meditation as attention training

50:07 - match the stage with the phase of the business cycle

50:37 - take the altitude of every worker into consideration

53:51 - is enlightenment the same as taking LSD?

54:02 - no

54:05 - psychedelics can give an experience of one taste, the cosmic void, but it's temporary, it's not a structure