Culadasa on How the Mind Works Part 2

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Culadasa is a meditation master with over 4 decades of experience in the Tibetan and Theravadan Buddhist traditions. He taught classes in neuroscience and psychology at the Universities of Calgary and Brittish Columbia. He now lives in the Arizona wilderness and leads the Dharma Treasure Buddhist Sanga. His book on meditation, The Mind Illuminated, is the book Eric calls the best book on meditation he's ever read. This is a two-part interview. In this episode, part one, Eric and Culadasa talk about how the mind and brain works - knowledge that is essential to understand before one can successfully implement the meditation techniques that will be discussed in part two. These techniques have the very real potential of transforming your meditation experience. So listen up in this episode and get ready to radically re-understand this thing we call the mind.

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In This Interview, Culadasa and I Discuss...

His book, The Mind Illuminated
The power of setting an intention for meditation
Getting all of the mind on board for meditating
Accepting whatever comes up
Trying to enjoy your meditation, celebrating the times you come back to the present moment vs scolding yourself
Roadmap of the stages of meditation over time
How knowing the developmental nature of things over time can be problematic
The difficulties of being a beginner at anything
Looking for the pleasure and joy in wherever you are
The 4 step process of settling in to meditate
Feeling your breath at the nose
The Mindful Review
Being aware of the motivation behind your thoughts and speech
What could I have done differently?

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0:00.0	be where you are and be satisfied with the achievements that you have that are appropriate to where you are.
0:14.8	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:16.8	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:21.4	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,
0:25.8	ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:31.2	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:38.8	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking.
0:44.3	Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:50.6	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:55.0	how they feed their good wolf.
1:11.0	Thanks for joining us and welcome to part two of our interview with Chuladasa,
1:16.0	a meditation master with over four decades of experience in the Tibetan and Theravadan Buddhist
1:21.5	traditions. He taught psychology and neuroscience, set the universities of Calgary and British
1:26.6	Columbia. Chuladasa lives in Arizona's wilderness and leads the Dharma treasure, Buddhist Sangha.
1:32.2	And here's part two of our interview with Chuladasa.
1:35.7	Okay, we are back with Chuladasa for part two of our two part interview. And what we're going to
1:42.0	focus on in this section is a little bit more around meditation. One of the things about the book,
1:48.5	the mind illuminated that I found so interesting was the level of depth of instruction and meditation.
1:56.0	And I want to start with the idea of intention because you talk about this a lot. And you say that
2:03.3	one of the things that will happen to somebody when they start meditating, and I can vouch for this
2:07.6	being true not only when I start, but often if I'm not watching myself, is that we sit down
2:13.6	and we notice that we can't really control our thoughts. We still try and wrestle them to the ground.
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