Simon Brown returns for a grasp class on compassion and the way it can by no means be separated from the deepest insights into the non-dual nature of actuality itself.
We speak about how compassion and struggling might matter if this world is a type of phantasm, the excellence between empathy and compassion because it pertains to burnout, dorsal and ventral vagal mechanisms associated to deep trauma conditioning, the true that means of Christmas and the vacation season and MUCH extra.
Please listen to our previous conversation on awakening and trauma here.
Check out Simon’s YouTube channel here.
Here’s that book by Ally Wise that Simon referenced, Embodied Healing.
Topics and Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
4:05 Trust. Does life NEED planning?
13:07 Non-dual lecturers’ absolutism, nature of fixation post-awakening
20:00 Working with reactivity and separation
25:30 Adyashanti’s resonance and retirement, religious perfectionism
33:26 Recent retreat insights, feeling all the pieces with compassion
37:30 Learning the language of the center
41:43 Dzogchen, vacancy and kind, manifesting as awake presence
49:27 Nagarjuna, the Middle Way, compassion and acceptance
59:30 The work of unfolding isn’t completed
1:03:35 Awareness of thought/consciousness because the sixth sense
1:07:15 Why the self shouldn’t be an enemy, self as a software to see struggling of others
1:12:59 The true that means of the Heart Sutra, Avalokiteshvara
1:20:35 Why struggling and compassion MATTER, when unconditional love meets struggling
1:24:05 Compassion vs. Empathy, healthcare professionals, burnout
1:31:28 Simon’s Cat!
1:32:15 Self-compassion, early wounding, the traumatized nervous system
1:43:15 Elephant and rider mannequin of acutely aware and unconscious thoughts, trauma
1:44:50 Embodied Health by Ally Wise, ventral and dorsal vagal responses
1:48:50 When youngster’s fundamental wants aren’t met, levels of trauma, co-regulation
1:54:12 Feeling into the first feelings that set off thought cascades, the Golden Thread
1:58:44 Compassion and the that means of Christmas and the vacation season
