Feeling stuck in his meditation practice and looking for guidance from a 4th Path adept, Brendan talks again to Roger Thisdell, someone who has attained a new default experience of mind as permanently centerless and without the sense of a singly, positioned epistemic agent (i.e., what in traditional language might be called "enlightenment"). Both thought it might be helpful to explore some instructional guidance in a podcast setting, where the process could be shared for others' benefit. In this context, Roger asks some probing questions and offers some helpful tips and suggestions for cultivating awakening.
0:00 Introduction
2:54 Brendan Describes His Path and Motivation towards Waking Up
9:12 (Clarifying Nonduality)
12:22 Brendan Tries to Describe His Phenomenological Sense of Self
16:47 Shifting Perspective through Thought
21:50 Symbolizing Awakened Consciousness 29:45 Beyond Equanimity: Zeroing in on the "Self"
40:54 The Uses of Conception to Change Perception
42:39 Building Motivation
48:07 Fire Kasina
50:45 Being vs. Striving
54:52 Building Metacognition
59:11 Naming Our Motivations
16. Building an Awakening Practice (w/ Roger Thisdell)