Keith sits down with Julian to discuss his new book, 'When the Buddha Needs Therapy.'
Keith is a long time meditator, martial artist and author of several books, including A Heart Blown Open and The Heart of Zen.
Learn more about Keith at: https://www.keithmartinsmith.com
Partial List of Topics in Chronological Order:
- How Keith is a Long time martial artist
- Bringing together embodiment practice, Buddhist meditation, attachment theory &trauma
- How premodern societies were more securely attached
- Exploring how many of our psychological issues are a product of our contemporary world which premodern societies did not experience
- Meditation as a way to dissolve ego identities
- How your practice can only go as deep as the amount of safety you can access & how that is related to attachment wounding.
- Anxious attachment style with cell phones
- The way in which becoming awake or enlightened leads to much more effective activity in the world
- Adyashanti said that 90% of the questions he received are basically a version of “How do I get away from the present moment?”
- Looking at the attachment issues of putting young children into monasteries
- The role of social status given to spiritual or meditation practice or practitioners
- How every society has a role and value for a kind of shaman/yogi/monk figure
- The psychedelic renaissance and how medicines are encouraging our evolution and to honor that practice again
- Integrating Eastern and Western science
- Spiritual emergencies and not having cultural contexts for spiritual experiences
- How a long meditation retreat can disrupt the default mode network of the mind in a way that is similar to psychedelic use
- The ways in which intensive meditation can bring about a traumatic response
- How the meditation traditions aren’t equipped to handle trauma
- Keith’s point that meditation cannot touch or transform psychological issues which are truly in the shadow or unconscious mind.
- The teaching that no one has ever MADE you angry
- Anger in its most simple terms is clarity
- You can’t get angry if you don’t care
- Tribalism and Conformity
- Levels of Development
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