Teaching Meditation

• Dr. Tucker Peck: Freedom is the Opposite of Community

  Upali interviews Tucker in this episode.  In a wide-ranging conversation, they touch on:Many of us look for self esteem to pretty much everyone we meet, or to no one at all, rather than in a sane place.Doing what you'd like to do, and being in community, are opposite stances.  How do we balance these?Tucker talks about Sanity & Sainthood, both the name of his book and what he sees as the two goals of dharma practice and psychotherapy.  This is distinguished from the point of practice being to get and keep an awesome feeling.Support the show

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• Learning Meditation: Kacee. Dealing with Overwhelm in Meditation

  Kacee is the first in a series Upali will do with guests who are longtime students, rather than teachers, of meditation.  Kacee talks about a number of changes over her years as a practitioner, including her view of what to do when practice makes you feel worse, her view on integrating parts work into her meditation practice, and she deals with the inner critic.Support the show

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• North Burn: Spending 20 Years on Retreat

  Dharma teacher North Burn has been on a meditation retreat for most of the last twenty years.  He teaches a 3-month retreat each spring in California.  Tucker talks with North about choosing a monastic life rather than dating, marriage, and a career.  North opens up about his relationship with his own teacher, including a period where their relationship was temporarily severed, and what this was like for him.For more information about North, head to https://boundlessness.org/ or contact [email protected] the show

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• Marianne Bentzen: Intimacy and Playfulness; Trauma and Resource

  Marianne Bentzen is a psychotherapist and trainer in neuroaffective development psychology.  She is the author of a number of books including Neuroaffective Meditation: A Practical Guide to Lifelong Brain Development, Emotional Growth, and Healing Trauma.  Marianne talks about her path to becoming a meditation teacher as a psychotherapist and how to connect with heartfulness and playfulness in teaching.  She also defines trauma, explains its parallels with deep meditative states, and points toward how support might begin for practitioners with trauma.  Support the show

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• Dr. Daniel Ingram: Managing Controversy in Dharma Circles

  Dr. Daniel Ingram is a retired emergency medicine doctor who is the author of two versions of the book Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha.   His current projects are the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium and a charity called the Emergence Benefactors.  Daniel discusses the way in which he became a dharma teacher, where he actually began by working with the most advanced practitioners, and he discusses a number of areas in which he has "stepped on minefields" and created controversy.  Support the show

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