Opening The Heart of Compassion (w/Simon Brown)

The ZDoggMD Show

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Medicine, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Simon Brown returns for a master class on compassion and how it can never be separated from the deepest insights into the non-dual nature of reality itself. We talk about how compassion and suffering could matter if this world is a kind of illusion, the distinction between empathy and compassion as it relates to burnout, dorsal and ventral vagal mechanisms related to deep trauma conditioning, the true meaning of Christmas and the holiday season and MUCH more. Please listen to our previous conversation on awakening and trauma here. Check out Simon's YouTube channel here. Here's that book by Ally Wise that Simon referenced, Embodied Healing. Topics and Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 4:05 Trust. Does life NEED planning? 13:07 Non-dual teachers’ absolutism, nature of fixation post-awakening 20:00 Working with reactivity and separation 25:30 Adyashanti’s resonance and retirement, spiritual perfectionism 33:26 Recent retreat insights, feeling everything with compassion 37:30 Learning the language of the heart 41:43 Dzogchen, emptiness and form, manifesting as awake presence 49:27 Nagarjuna, the Middle Way, compassion and acceptance 59:30 The work of unfolding is never finished 1:03:35 Awareness of thought/consciousness as the 6th sense 1:07:15 Why the self is not an enemy, self as a tool to see suffering of others 1:12:59 The true meaning of the Heart Sutra, Avalokiteshvara 1:20:35 Why suffering and compassion MATTER, when unconditional love meets suffering 1:24:05 Compassion vs. Empathy, healthcare professionals, burnout 1:31:28 Simon’s Cat! 1:32:15 Self-compassion, early wounding, the traumatized nervous system 1:43:15 Elephant and rider model of conscious and unconscious mind, trauma 1:44:50 Embodied Health by Ally Wise, ventral and dorsal vagal responses 1:48:50 When child’s basic needs aren’t met, degrees of trauma, co-regulation 1:54:12 Feeling into the primary emotions that trigger thought cascades, the Golden Thread 1:58:44 Compassion and the meaning of Christmas and the holiday season Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	Nice to see you.
0:46.2	All right.
0:47.2	Thanks for doing this.
0:48.2	It's really nice to catch up.
0:49.2	Simon.
0:50.2	Yeah, it really is great.
0:51.2	It's good to do it by video this time because our last conversation,
0:55.0	we, you know, it wasn't even clear that we were going to release it, right?
0:58.0	We just had a conversation, like, let's see what happens.
1:00.0	Then we put it out and, man, I know you've gotten these messages because I've gotten them too and I've
1:04.7	bored some to you and you for it some of me. Man that one had a real impact and it's
1:11.6	There's something about the space you create to hold trauma in a way that's practical, but also is so different than your typical sort of therapy speak or you know the way that we want to massage
1:24.7	trauma in the relative world and I think it resonated with so many people who
1:28.8	for whom that was it's the prime sort of holding and they've been told oh just sit with it just sit with it
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