Thanks for this! I’d like to see more pointers from you

You guys look like brothers 😀

What are you drinking @6:10

cant stand horrible vocal fry in his voice, makes it un-listenable 😒 although the topic is interesting and important

Thank you for sharing, I'm sure this will be useful for me and many others - may you be well and free from suffering 🙏

Does asher believe all lives are more suffering than pleasure?

good luck with your pain! I hope you will be ok

check out Open Focus meditations..Dr. Fehmi. Dissolving Pain

Thank you for this. Do you have any advice for dealing with pain associated with head trauma. I fell down approximately 8 months ago and hit my head and am still experiencing some lasting effects. The pain is not primarily the worst thing; it is more just feeling like I have damaged my conscious experience in some way irreparable way, as I have always strongly identified with my mind and intelligence. The pain is just a reminder of that. Thank you again.

Damn dude I'm genuinely impressed. I would not be holding it together that well in your position. Sending lots of Metta.

Great discussion! Loved the part about faith 45 minutes in

I want to thank you, Wystan, for making this happen. I've been listening to and learning from Michael and Vince for years and, now with a 4 month old daughter, deeply appreciate hearing their thoughts on parenting and how it relates to the path. Just to share a bit about how it's gone for me so far. My practice had really been ramping up prior to my daughter's birth, and because a) I was so concerned that it would drop off in parenthood due to lack of time/energy and b) was so reinvigorated to awaken for the sake of all, yes, but especially this one new special little being that my practice and overall commitment and devotion to the path have deepened wonderfully since she was born. Practically, there's less time for committed sitting, but this has led (finally) to real, concerted integration of practice in everyday life. This was something I'd aspired to and mostly failed to make real for years. Finally, with no other choice, it's happening. I also do a ton of practice lying in bed in those many sleepless stretches, especially in the first couple months. The difficulty and challenges have chiseled away at the more selfish parts of self. The joy and love have opened my heart in ways nothing else could have. Deep bows to my little teacher, and to all of yours.

So inspiring

Yay!! Thank you for this interview :D

Does awakening or enlightenment negatively impact a parents ability to deal w the responsibility of raising children? I’ve seen some non-dual awakenings that are honestly scary w lack of affect, and no motivation to do anything… I can’t afford such a radical disconnect from my life and family. Any thoughts?

Interesting regarding 7:05 the thread of is a philosophy making your life better? If it’s not then is it worth pursuing? Surely there is bitter truth that might not necessarily make your life better? Funny how I’ve been reading an extreme example of this, Drum roll “Benatar’s the human predicament and if you have a pretty grounded physicalist view, yes it’s pessimistic but lots of seemingly true things described in there.

i’d like to hear more about qualia as a coherently wittgensteinian position (properly understood). re: behaviourism (properly understood) if anyone knows books about behaviourism a la ryle vs technical (meditation) language games that would also be helpful

Looking through texts trying to find that juicy jewel to help me practice better has indeed been mostly for naught.

Exceptionally cuddly cat.

KITTY

i love this style, it also scares me a little bit lmao, but i love it ❤

Romeo is so balanced and thoughtful. Kind of wild

Bit of a tangent: what is this recording platform you're using that makes local recordings and stitches them together?

Ron is great! ❤ Dharmachanics ❤

Should definitely continue to ask Roger how to pronounce his last name on every podcast episode he's on. As a bit.

Very nice

I think the seeing through the world thing in the visual field can be achieved by scaffolding up to 'through', by way of first paying attention to seemingly parallel lines and following them to their vanishing point, in a linear perspective sort of sense. Can follow such lines to vanishing point away from observer, and even towards and behind observer, up/down too

Very nice

What methods are you talking about at 7:43?

Very nice

Very nice

He’s got a pretty thick layer of depression stuck in his astral body/meridian system. May he be successful in practice ✌️🙏

I enjoyed this conversation. Thanks for posting. I did find that the host was overly eager to demonstrate his own knowledge. He frequently labels the guest’s attempts at explaining his grounded experience before the guest has even finished speaking. He labels these with confidence. I wonder whether all of these labels from different forms of Buddhism are helping or hindering his journey. That said, I like both people and hope to hear more of them in future episodes.

These people are not messing around Great watch

With regard to the point about the asymmetry of self regard leading to distorted moral perceptions, it seems to me that there's a simple ordering claim to be made: one can, in this mode, perceive the relevant symmetries first (moral reasoning is often predicated on such) and then figure out how it applies to oneself (after all, you both need to figure out how to actually instantiate the beneficial action, but you are also included in the list of beneficiaries). If instead one mixes up these steps, one is less likely to correctly perceive the symmetry in the first place. Very similar to the Veil of Ignorance, but phenomenological rather than analytic/conceptual.

Great spending an hour with you two. Thanks!

Great interview! @36m you speak about early buddhism having different practices for different types of people.

dissatisfaction versus indestractibility

Fabulous interview. Many explanations of critical aspects of Buddha Dharma that are helpful. Thank you.

Wonderful

The problem of evil raises the "problem" of good, because good and bad dependently co-arise. So in some some funny way, "problem" gets cancelled out, and one can get down to the much more important business of investigating the causes of suffering (for oneself and others) in direct experience. And seeing "The Dawn of Everything" on your bookshelf just gave me an even greater boost of confidence in your eloquent teachings ;).

i would actually be really interested in you two just describing and investigating the differences between you post MCTB4th perception. Like even for a full hour. Lots of pointers and probably generally very interesting!

was just thinking about you two, what a surprise

Great stuff, thank you

Pretty mean of you to not add timestamps

Could you reflect on Nadia Asparouhova’s recent article on her experience with jhanas?

You were interrupting Roger too much. You can see the frustration in his enlightened face

I like how you wear your hat askew. I’ve been wearing mine that way for years. ❤

How long was your journey to 4th path Wystan ?

Regarding degrees of freedom in understanding simple instructions - you could really fuck yourself up, this stuff is delicate terrain, especially if you are not the intuitive laid down type you could easily fuck up by pushing in the wrong way - humility and playing the long game are important + diversify your techniques/approaches so you avoid/cancel out misunderstandings of practice instructions