George Haas | The Meaningful Life
And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen
Cory Allen
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🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Meditation teacher George Haas spent a lot of time seeking while he was growing up in New York. After experiencing a bout of particularly deep suffering, he got sober, moved to Los Angeles and started extensively studying Buddhist texts. In 2003, he founded the Mettagroup where he uses a combination of Buddhist teaching and John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory to help students reduce their suffering and live meaningful lives.
In this podcast, we talk about the path that led George to become a meditation teacher, how he uses Attachment Theory in his work, and his definition of enlightenment.
Before our talk, I answer a listener question about overwhelming thoughts during meditation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's going on and welcome to the astro-housal. I'm Cori Allen. I hope that you're doing good today. |
| 0:05.0 | I hope that you're feeling good, feeling all right, you know. Are you feeling attached to your own story, to your idea of who you are? |
| 0:11.0 | Who's the one to put the pieces of that story of who you believe |
| 0:14.4 | yourself to be in your mind in the first place? And also who is the one in your mind who continues |
| 0:19.6 | to drive you to live that story that you believe you're supposed to be living? |
| 0:23.0 | How is your relationship with your inner life and your outer life come to be? |
| 0:27.0 | What experiences have you had that have caused you to believe that the world is a safe place, |
| 0:31.0 | a place where you can thrive and do well, or other experiences that have caused |
| 0:35.2 | you to believe that is a scary place, one that you should be skeptical about and weary of. |
| 0:40.4 | And what type of attachments do you have to the people in your life? And are those positive thriving relationships or negative |
| 0:47.9 | attachments that are instructing your behaviors from below your |
| 0:51.2 | subconscious. My guest today on the show is George Haas and he can |
| 0:55.0 | tell you all about those things. George Haas is a meditation teacher. He grew up in New York |
| 1:00.3 | in the 70s and 80s. He experienced a particularly deep bounce of suffering, ended up getting sober, moving to Los Angeles, and it's there where he started extensively studying Buddhist texts. In 2003 he founded the meta group where he uses |
| 1:16.3 | a combination of Buddhist teaching and John Bulby's attachment theory to help students reduce their |
| 1:21.6 | suffering, raise their awareness, and live meaningful lives. |
| 1:25.0 | Many people live in a place of despair about the meaningfulness of their lives |
| 1:30.0 | and they don't know what it is that would be meaningful that they could put their energy into. |
| 1:36.1 | And so a lot of this process of focusing on supporting the development of secure attachment |
| 1:41.3 | through meditation is also exploring what's actually |
| 1:45.0 | meaningful to you and how could you go and pursue that so that much of the day, each |
| 1:51.0 | of the days of your lives is spent in meaningful activity. |
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