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Beth Jacobs is a clinical psychologist in private practice and a former faculty member of the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University. She is also a teacher in the Soto Zen tradition and incorporates Buddhist studies and meditation into her work as both a psychologist and a writer.

In this episode, Eric and Beth discuss her book, The Original Buddhist Psychology: What the Abhidharma Tells Us about How We Think, Feel, and Experience Life

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In This Interview, Beth Jacobs and I Discuss Original Buddhist Psychology and ...

• Her book, The Original Buddhist Psychology: What the Abhidharma Tells Us about How We Think, Feel, and Experience Life
• Abhidharma is the structural layout of the Buddha’s original vision of the universe
• Understanding the complex laws of how forces move together in the universe
• The entity of “me” exists from the arbitrary framework we create for ourselves
• The 5 skandhas are what is used to construct our reality: form, feelings, perceptions, habit formations, consciousnesses
• Neuropsychology and the 17 steps of perception
• Interdependent origination is the idea that everything is in motion and connected
• How consciousness is just an interaction
• The various lists of lists in the Abhidharma
• Energy, mindfulness, and investigation
• The idea of gently removing our obstructions
• Writing and meditation as powerful tools for awakening

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Norman Fischer is a poet, author, Zen Buddhist teacher and priest. He’s a graduate of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop and he’s been publishing poetry since 1979. He’s the author of 17 books of poetry, 6 books of prose on Zen and religion as well as numerous articles and essays. In this episode, Eric and Norman discuss his book, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path.

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In This Interview, Norman Fischer and I discuss Spiritual Growth through Imagination and...

• His book, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path
• Redefining imagination and discovering it’s prevalence and role in life
• The role of imagination in spiritual paths
• How we don’t see the world exactly as it is, but rather through filters
• Loosening our grasp on what we think of as absolute reality
• Constructing useful stories in our mind rather than living by our default stories
• The essential ways in which imagination enriches the experience of our lives
• When we realize we are making our lives for ourselves, we have the power to make it differently
• The Bodhisattva: A Buddha in training
• Compassion, Love and Service for the benefit of others
• The Bodhisattva Path
• The myth of separateness and the truth of interconnection and love
• That holding two (seemingly contradictory) ideas in our mind at one time offers us depth perception
• How ideals can inspire us rather than put pressure on us
• The disease of perfectionism
• How to engage in “Joyful Effort” when you don’t feel very joyful and don’t have much effort to spare
• Patience: Just keep going and be of benefit to others
• Turning toward what’s arising: facing it, embracing it, breathing into it and going forward with it
• The problematic nature of favoring one’s own suffering over the suffering of others

Norman Fischer Links:

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Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher and cancer survivor who has taught in the fields of poetry, health, and spirituality for 40 years. Mark is a New York Times #1 selling author who has published numerous books and audio projects. In this episode, Eric and Mark discuss his book, The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters. This episode is a tonic to the suffering that we are facing right now in the midst of a pandemic. This conversation offers some of the most liberating wisdom that, when connected to, releases us from the grip of fear so that we are living from a place of presence, peace, and connecting to what matters.

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In This Interview, Mark Nepo and I discuss Connecting to What Matters and...

• His new book, The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters
• The value in cooperating, listening and working with things (rather than trying to bend them to our will)
• That “sin”, as literally translated, is the same as “opaque” or, “not seeing”
• That when we lose sight of the vastness to which we belong, succumbing to our narrow condition, we paint everything with the color of our trouble
• How the surface of the ocean is what’s choppy and as we go down below the surface, we connect with the depth that is less tumultuous
• “Rightsizing” our perspective on troubles by putting them in a larger perspective of vastness and wholeness
• How to move at the pace of what is real: synchronizing the moving pace of mind, heart, and body
• That the power of reading out loud is like the difference between reading sheet music and hearing it in our heads vs. actually playing the music
• That we meditate not to be great meditators, but to be clear vessels
• How we’ve become “addicted to the noise of things falling apart”
• That things are always simultaneously falling apart and coming together
• We are challenged to honor what we’re going through while at the same time remembering that what we’re going through doesn’t define us
• Asking “What is actually happening?” so we might identify right action
• Waiting for the cloud of fear to pass so that you can decipher what is actually dangerous
• How in the modern world we have catastrophized our relationship to the unknown
• That the unknown can produce love and beauty just as it can produce difficulty and hardships
• The truth that there is no “there”, there’s only “here”
• That often, when you can’t leave a difficult situation, you realize that everything you need is right here
• The menacing assumption that life is somewhere other than where we are
• That out of fear, we make a god of survival. But without thriving, what’s the point?

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Kamla Kapur is an award winning author, poet and playwright. She was born and raised in India and studied in the United States. Kamla now divides her time between living in the remote Indian Himalayas and in San Diego, California with her husband. She holds a Master’s Degree in Literature from Kent State University in Ohio and she studied Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. Kamla was on the faculty of Grossmont College in San Diego for 18 years and her stories, poems, and plays have been published in many prestigious Indian and American journals. In this episode, she and Eric use her new book, Rumi: Tales of the Spirit: A Journey to Healing the Heart, as a jumping off point to discuss the transformative powers we experience through various life experiences.

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In This Interview, Kamla Kapur and I discuss Transformative Powers in Life and...

• Her book, Rumi: Tales of the Spirit: A Journey to Healing the Heart
• The deep wound to Rumi’s heart that transformed him and brought forth his treasured body of work that we now know and love
• How suffering can be our greatest tutor and guide in life
• The idea of expansion and contraction in our lives
• That when your heart breaks, it breaks open
• How suffering can open us up to being more aware and connected to our higher selves
• That those who transform as a result of their suffering are open to a different way of thinking as a result of the difficult things that happen to them
• The transformative powers of hope, joy, and love
• Rumi’s stories of characters embracing suffering
• How all suffering has the power to awaken us
• The transformative power of suffering
• The transformative power of acceptance
• How Rumi says, “When the candle of your youth dims, you have to light the candle of the spirit.”
• Actively ascending to our aging
• The awe and wonder of existence and the mystery of life that we as humans can perceive

Kamla Kapur Links:

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John Mabry is a United Church of Christ pastor and is the Director of the Spiritual Direction Program at Chaplaincy Institute. He is the lead singer of 2 bands in the Bay area and is the author of many novels and books on theology, spirituality, and spiritual guidance.

In this episode, Eric and John discuss his book, Soul Journeys: Christian Spirituality and Shamanism as Pathways for Wholeness and Understanding

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In This Interview, John Mabry and I Discuss Shamanism, Spirituality, and ...

• His book, Soul Journeys: Christian Spirituality and Shamanism as Pathways for Wholeness and Understanding
• How life is messy for everyone and how we’re not seeing everyone’s entire picture
• His Shamanic journey experience of finding wisdom and healing
• The upper, middle, and lower worlds as part of a shamanic journey
• His spirit animal, the panther
• How practice and training our imagination can form relationships with spiritual realities
• The importance of leaving room for mystery
• How our culture reinforces that only what can be measured and explained is real
• Using the word trust rather than believe
• His morning practice of imaginative prayer
• His exploration into the different spiritual traditions and finding where his heart lives

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