Miles Neale: Entering a Tibetan Buddhist Flight Simulator: Merging with a Mentor

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Miles Neale is a prominent member of the current generation of Buddhist teachers, championing the emerging field of contemplative psychotherapy. With Sounds True, Miles has published Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Miles about Lam Rim, the Tibetan Buddhist framework for moving into enlightened awakening step by measured step. They discuss the difference between gradually awakening and coming to enlightenment in a sudden burst, as well as the potential interplay between the two. Miles also leads Tami and the audience in a seven-step mentor bonding visualization that takes advantage of the mind's capacity to create a "flight simulator" for felt experience. Finally, Miles and Tami talk about the need to re-embrace religion and ritual in order to transcend the "cinderblock civilization" of materialism and nihilism. (69 minutes) Tami's Takeaway When Miles led us through a brief version of the mentor-bonding process that he teaches, I was surprised by who showed up in my mind's eye. It was not a spiritual mentor, business mentor, or a psychological guide, but someone who has recently begun helping me become physically fit. This underscored for me how many different dimensions there are to mentorship, as well as how important it is to be utterly open to receiving help from a surprising source.

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.
0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Miles Neal.
0:44.6	Miles Neal is among the leading voices of the current generation of Buddhist teachers and
0:50.4	a forerunner in the emerging field of contemplative psychotherapy.
0:55.0	He's a Buddhist psychotherapist in private practice,
0:59.0	assistant director of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science and faculty at Tibet House and
1:06.6	Waile Cornell Medical College.
1:09.6	Which sounds true, Miles Neal has written a new book called Gradual Awakening, the Tibetan Buddhist
1:17.6	Path of becoming fully human. This book is for anyone seeking a path dedicated to both authentic personal growth and the
1:28.1	overthrow of the nihilism, hedonism, and materialism that are currently threatening our planet.
1:36.0	In this episode of Insights at The Edge, Miles and I spoke about the tension and also the potential interplay between sudden awakening
1:46.4	and gradual awakening. We talked about the seven-step mentor bonding process and how any one of us can do this process with an
1:58.3	inspiring figure in our life and Miles talked us through all seven steps in great detail.
2:07.0	We also talked about the safeguards that exist on the gradual path of Tibetan Buddhism.
2:13.0	Three main realizations
2:16.0	that Myle has named
2:18.0	the discovery of evolutionary self-care,
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