Steve Hagen on Perception, Conception, and Enlightenment

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

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🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Steve Hagen is the founder and teacher of the Dharma Field Zen Center in Minneapolis, MN and the author of several books on Buddhism, including Buddhism Plain and Simple which is one of the top five best selling books on Buddhism in the United States. In this episode, Steve teaches us about several Buddhist concepts that are often misunderstood: Wholeness vs Unwholesomeness, Perception vs Conception and Belief vs Knowledge. Knowing the true meaning of these ideas will give you great freedom as you seek the enlightenment that is your true nature.

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In This Interview, Steve Hagen and I Discuss...

The Wolf Parable
His book, Buddhism Plain and Simple
The Horse and the Farmer parable
Wholeness vs Unwholesome
Consider the welfare of other beings in all you do
Awareness
Perception (the immediate, direct experience) vs Conception (our construct of things)
Belief vs Knowledge
That we can't arrive at truth through conception
That enlightenment is with us all of the time, we're just not aware of it
That enlightenment is our natural state
The idea of "stream" as self, the Buddha said
That the way things appear to be is more of a construct than a reality
How picking and choosing is the mind's worst disease
Noticing how the mind leans a certain way
That a Buddha is a person who is awake
The power of simply observing something about ourselves rather than trying to put a stop to it or judging it
The Story about the 84 Problems

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0:00.0	When the Buddha said, do it as wholesome, avoid what is unwholesome.
0:03.4	This wholeness is within every experience.
0:05.6	It's just a matter of us being sensitive to it, open to it, and aware of it.
0:17.2	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:19.2	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:23.8	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:29.4	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:33.6	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:38.4	We see what we don't have, instead of what we do,
0:41.2	we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:44.7	But it's not just about thinking.
0:46.7	Our actions matter.
0:48.2	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:53.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:57.4	how they feed their good wolf.
1:14.3	Thanks for joining us.
1:15.7	Today's guest is Steve Hagen, founder and head teacher of the Dharma Field Zen Center in
1:21.2	Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1:23.2	Steve is the author of several books on Buddhism.
1:26.2	Among them is the brilliant Buddhism Plain and Simple,
1:29.2	which was one of the top five best-selling Buddhism books in the United States.
1:33.8	In 2012, Steve updated and revised his first book,
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