Deconstructing Yourself

Awakening and the Path of Liberation, with Dan Brown

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May 20, 2020
Psychologist Dan Brown discusses levels of practice from awakening to buddhahood, neuroscience of nonduality, dzogchen as a path, and the future of dzogchen in the West. He shares insights on intelligence development, rainbow light transformation, relics, and intersections of Western psychology with Zogchen teachings.
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INSIGHT

Gamma Synchrony Marks Awakening

  • In neuroimaging of view-based awakening, all subjects showed high-frequency gamma in anterior cingulate and pons-related regions.
  • Gamma synchrony indicates intense, global coordinated activation linked to awakened states.
ADVICE

Teach Toward Awakening, Not Only Mindfulness

  • Teach and seek practices aimed explicitly at awakening rather than stopping at secular mindfulness.
  • Remind students the ultimate goal and train the view that opens timeless awareness.
ADVICE

Train Awakening With Repeated View Work

  • Cultivate awakening by repeatedly setting the Lion's Gate view and holding non-doing, non-conceptual awareness.
  • Train automaticity: shift frequently, lengthen duration, then carry the view off the cushion into daily life.
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