Meditation, emotions, and the Bio-emotive framework with Douglas Tataryn
Background:
Started as 15 year old with breath work, meditating for several hours.
Every day at university he got by with one hour of sleep extremely quickly going into meditative state that was very efficient at restoring.
He had a lot of samadhi but not sati.
His wife was teaching sacred movement in Manitoba. And there's a whole community there. And they're related to some kind of Tibetan lineage also worked with Culadasa and did a lot of research on psychology and became very strong at methodology.
Ken Wilber and four stages
Enlightenment is not the end turn, you can still do dumb stuff
sleeping with students
abusing money
So you need to #Four Facets
wake up
Theravada Buddhism
clean up
Christianity, Mahayana Buddhism
We're able to observe our minds at a very deep level while we're meditating, but we're not able to be in those states, while we're interacting socially with others.
I thought that you kind of could get that kind of insight, with walking meditation and always seeing your emotions from a distance, but maybe those states are not as deep or, or pure.
And so, some of this developmental and cleansing and stuff, it's possible that you kind of see through it and so it becomes invisible to the meditation and you can gain enlightenment without actually having to deal with it.
Podcast about Culadasa, and his sex scandal
grow up
developmental psychology
something new, that there isn't a good spiritual fit for
show up (Doug says look around)
Shamans, Tibetan traditions
engaging with the whole cosmos and all the creatures and layers there.
trauma
when you're very young
we are very intimately in touch with our emotions
When trauma happens, you tend to incorporate those emotion, feeling beliefs, into your personality at a level where it's very difficult to untangle
Traditionally, people shut down emotionally at a certain age.
Although they kept craving some kind of recognition or love, when they got that it didn't update their core beliefs, and it didn't heal, the kind of gap that they had.
Younger generations tend to not have those same shutting down of emotions, which is causing other kinds of issues.
Is this specific to the US or certain groups in North America? What kinds of problems is it causing? #q
things that happen later,
you can process them through purification meditation.
There are four core emotions:
happy
sad
angry
fearful
But he came up with nine types of feelings.
And he also talks about a book, something like kindling. The apparently it's about affirmations and how they resonate with you.
Resources
He has a lot of resources on this website
book
some online courses six stage,
An Nedera Process to work through your emotion
Concept of circling, which apparently is big in the Bay Area, and how that can leave people in a very raw and vulnerable state without a way of healing (without guidance)
Developmental stages from Hanzi Freinacht
Pre-modern
modern
postmodern
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