working with anger

desire to make a declaration

excitement

the knowing drive

yawning as energetic process

"I don't like what's going on and it's making me angry"

interiors and exteriors

32 body parts meditation (and elements meditation

disgust for bodies

getting over an ex partner and intrusive thoughts

relationships (relationships are hard)

opera - life knocks softly at first.

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Some review of "suffering"

be mindful of the object of suffering as it moves a lot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C5%ABmi_(Buddhism)

challenge?  Or suffering?

rituals for starting work (walk, coffee, clean desk etc)

self!

is the self the thinker, the body, the awareness.

shadow aspects of self.

Vajrayana

self and identity

self and parts work, internal conflict

guru method and self mistakes

how to investigate the self

a story about the meditator's narrator and how I dealt with it

the path of many paths.

Suffering - and we mean the ordinary suffering of day by day, not the extraordinary suffering like torture.  We mean all suffering

Suffering is real, and here, and every day and worth understanding

There's a way to skillfully understand and operate around suffering

There's a need to acknowledge and meet the suffering

There's bad habits around suffering like running away from it that need to be understood better.

Go and meet suffering

People bug us about their suffering

We have experience blind spots - we can't see our ordinary

Giving space to people thinking, helps them to have the insight

Gratitude - giving and receiving gratitude is hard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVroMOjk-M

"othering" people, the way we make other people "bad"

intersectionality

we often run towards or away from suffering and amplify suffering when we do

put on a face to convey a point and prevent future suffering

3 paths, 3 schools, 3 characteristics

Theravada - impermanence

Mahayana - Suffering

Vajrayana - No self

impermanence of the breath

impermanence of food supply chain

hyperventilating and physiological states and their impermanence

states and their impermanence

past, present and future and the confusion of permanence (you always do this)

skillful operation of permanence and impermanence

energy

energry conversion paths

types of energy

subtle energy

creative energy

energy skill

solving energy problems

balancing of energy

phenomenology of bananans

sensitivity and sensitivity to energy

pallet cleaner habits for energy change

energy healer

signal and noise with energy

goal alignment with energy

spirits and the energy of spirits

"in comes wine, out comes secrets"

chakras and some experiments in feeling energy

ze frank

covid

trust

monopoly on truth

trust - make bets

directly knowing reality 

trusting others

drama

is consciousness the same in different people

healthy world views

embodiment

trungpa and the 3 schools of buddhism

Guests Serene and Jack

Does faith give you an edge

Judaism

Drama triangle

Transactional Analysis - Eric Berne "games people play"

Kids behave in ways that copies their environment

God as a continuity object of meditation

Religion has the power to say, "you must do x"

Off The Derech

Manifestation

Turtle & porcupine

Rationalists like to make bets to put money on the line for their predictions

goals as flags in the distance

Biblical Daniel story

Working to resolve the inner critic

10x rule - Grant Cardone

Pragmatic Psychology

Academia runs with a perceived "mandate from heaven"