How to Embrace Awareness and Let Go of Ego with Grace Shireson
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Grace Shireson explores ways to learn how to embrace awareness and let go of ego. She discusses the importance of observing the mind and understanding emotions. Grace’s interesting journey led her to confront the concept of ego in meditation, recognizing the subtle desire for perfection that could obscure the true essence of spiritual practice.
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Gain clarity and peace by exploring the benefits of spiritual practice for heightened awareness
- Discover practical ways to overcome the ego and deepen your meditation practice
- Learn effective strategies for dealing with suffering and finding inner peace
- Uncover the stories of historical female figures in Zen Buddhism for inspiration and wisdom
- Explore how to apply Zen principles in modern life for greater mindfulness and resilience
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| 0:00.0 | How we look for that space around situations, the possibility that it could be different is a very important way of turning away from whatever we're hung up with into the possibility of change. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the |
| 0:26.0 | importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or |
| 0:30.6 | you are what you think, ring true. And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen |
| 0:36.5 | or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that |
| 0:46.3 | hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative efforts. about how other people keep themselves |
| 0:53.0 | consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:57.0 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
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| 1:45.0 | We hope you'll enjoy this episode from the archive. |
| 1:51.0 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:52.0 | Our guest on this episode is Grace Shearson. the received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, and founded |
| 2:05.2 | two practice centers and a retreat center under the Central Valley Zen Foundation. |
| 2:09.6 | Today, Grace and Eric discuss her book, Naked in the Zendo, stories of uptide Zen, wild-ass Zen, and |
| 2:16.7 | Enlightenment wherever you are. |
| 2:18.7 | Hi Grace, welcome to the show. |
| 2:20.9 | Well thank you, thank you for having me. It is a real pleasure to have you on. We're going to be discussing your book, which is called Naked in the Zendo, stories of uptight Zen, wild-ass Zen, and Enlightenment wherever you are. But before we do that |
| 2:37.0 | we're going to start like we always do with a parable. In the parable there's a |
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