519 Become A Realized Leader With Harvard Professor, Daniel P. Brown

Mindfulness Mode

Bruce Langford

Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality, Education, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Alternative Health

4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Brown, Ph.D. is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and has served on the faculty for over 38 years. A senior meditation master, Dr. Brown has trained and taught with top Indo-Tibetan Bon & Buddhist lamas for more than 48 years, including lineage holders from some of the great schools of Buddhism. He is the author of 24 books, and winner of the 1999 Guttmacher Award from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry & Law for outstanding contribution to forensic psychiatry. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.MindOnly.com Website: PointingOutWay.org – Retreats Website: AttachmentProject.org Book: Pointing Out the Great Way: The Stages of Meditation in the Mahamudra Tradition by Daniel P. Brown Most Influential Person Menri Trizin Effect on Emotions “Emotions has no grab to me anymore.” Thoughts on Breathing “If I don't breathe, I don't stay alive.” Suggested Resources Book: Pointing Out the Great Way: The Stages of Meditation in the Mahamudra Tradition by Daniel P. Brown App: n/a

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0:00.0	Mindfulness Mode 519.
0:04.1	So I get to see that I'm operating out of the intention of that field of awareness as my basis of operation, rather than operating out of thought.
0:11.8	Mindful Tribe, today I have with me an associate clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, and he served on the faculty there for over 38 years.
0:24.2	He's a senior meditation master. I have Daniel Brown, PhD, with me today. Hey, Dan, are you in mindfulness
0:33.8	mode? Awareness mode, awakened awareness mode. Aw Awaken awareness mode. And I like the fact that when we
0:42.7	communicated previous to the show, you said that you don't really consider yourself a mindfulness
0:49.2	person. And I want to dig right in and talk about that. I know that mindfulness is a relatively recent term, and it's a term that's used more in the
0:58.7	mainstream.
1:00.2	Tell me about where you are and the work you do and how you consider yourself in relation
1:06.4	to this topic of mindfulness.
1:08.9	Well, there are two main methods for meditation.
1:11.8	One is called concentration training, and the other is called pure awareness meditations.
1:16.4	So with concentration training, the mind is likened to be like a wild elephant.
1:20.8	Elephants are very smart and they're very strong, but they get spooked easily.
1:24.0	And when they understand Pete, they cause a lot of damage.
1:27.0	So the ordinary mind
1:27.8	is liking to be like a wild elephant. There are two ways you can train the elephant. One, you can
1:32.8	tie a rope on the chain on the elephant's neck and tie it to a stake and every time the elephant
1:37.2	wanders off it feels the pull of the rope. It figures it out after a while they can't go anywhere.
1:42.4	That's a metaphor for concentration.
1:47.4	You tie the rope of concentration onto a single object,
1:48.6	and every time it goes anywhere else,
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