Fear - Retreat Talk Sep 2024, Part II
In the second part of September 2024 retreat talks, Artem focuses on fear as the most fundamental experience on the spiritual path. He discusses how it gets repressed, how it’s used to condition and enslave us by both society and family and leads to accumulation of the deep inner darkness which we are often times shocked to discover on the spiritual path.
He then provides pointers to ways of dealing with fear and the transformative power of awareness and self-compassion which transmutes our fear into love and understanding.
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Timestamps:
0:06 Introduction
1:11 Fear as the most fundamental experience on the spiritual path
3:52 All fear is fear of oneself
5:39 Happy to postpone happiness
6:51 Fear of the future is the fear of the past
10:35 All problems are in the future, so why do we suffer in the present?
11:50 Emotional conditioning: how it happens
15:57 Fear of our inner darkness
17:27 Relationship with parents on the spiritual path
21:11 Spiritual teacher as a parental figure
25:25 Self-compassion to the struggling inner child
27:30 What does the fear point to during the spiritual transformation?
28:26 Various manifestations of fear
30:01 What our fear is trying to tell us
32:24 Beyond fear is the opportunity
35:11 Live a courageous life
36:36 Fear is a gateway to love
41:54 Fearful and intense psychedelic trips after spiritual awakening
43:14 Meditation vs. psychedelics as a spiritual practice
43:59 What are hallucinations on psychedelic trips?
45:11 The dangers of using psychedelics without an established meditation practice
49:23 Do I need prior experience to get into long meditation sessions?
50:14 Meditation as being with yourself without distractions
51:04 Is it okay if the mind wonders during meditation?
52:22 Is everything is an illusion?
53:33 Is dividing a meditation session into shorter chunks just as effective?
58:39 Destruction of beliefs: fear and feeling of going crazy
1:05:46 How does one change the mind constructed perspective of yourself?
1:07:37 Enlightenment and seeking happiness
1:11:01 Processing lingering fear after an ego death experience
1:13:57 The difference between a profound meditative experience and abiding awareness
1:17:20 Treating meditation practice as a workout
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