🐶 – Awake In
🐶 – Awake In
Jasmine Che & Bill Tribble
Episode 5 – “Going off script” with Liam Chai
1 seconds Posted Sep 7, 2020 at 4:36 pm.
Intro to Liam and going “off script”1:40 How me and Liam met via Jasmine & Awakin Circle4:30 How Liam began his road to spirituality6:03 Liam’s first meditation experiences8:00 Vipassana’s life changing experience for Liam (sexual ref)12:15 Did Liam tell the teachers about the occurrence?13:20 Daoist sexual practices13:45 Bill’s take on Liam’s experience – Arising & Passing (A&P)14:22 Kevin Rose interview with Zen Master Henry Shukman – Arising and Passing event16:20 Bill’s Arising & Passing experiences17:18 Universality of these types of experiences19:00 Liam’s first experiences with Goenka style Vipassana retreats22:30 Seeking meditation references – Alan Wallace – The Attention Revolution24:00 Phenomenon of extreme Jhanic states and how Liam understands the possibility in them28:00 Encounters with Allan Wallace, contemplative PhD, and his Attention revolution book31:00 Liam meeting Allan Wallace and reasons for seeking other teachers35:00 Liam’s 6 month meditation retreat and decisions why38:30 Funny experiences on retreat40:30 Kindness on Liam’s retreat41:00 What Liam practiced on his retreat46:00 Brasington’s different explanation of Jhanic states52:00 Bill on meditative attachment53:00 Liam on Shinzen Young’s meditative maximisation of life56:00 Spiritual bypassing59:00 Contemplating meditation for the masses1:01:00 MBSR’s powerful benefits1:03:00 Liam’s experiences teaching mindfulness to schoolkids1:04:00 Deep history, human records in the fossil record, dinosaur civilizations and moon visits
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Really enjoyed this conversation with ‘Awake In’ friend and marathon meditator Liam Chai. Be warned: The conversation is wide ranging and includes all kinds of risky subjects like: 🔥 Kundalini awakening on retreat, 🕊 spiritual bypassing, 🦖 and secret dinosaur civilizations.
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1:00 Intro to Liam and going “off script”1:40 How me and Liam met via Jasmine & Awakin Circle4:30 How Liam began his road to spirituality6:03 Liam’s first meditation experiences8:00 Vipassana’s life changing experience for Liam (sexual ref)12:15 Did Liam tell the teachers about the occurrence?13:20 Daoist sexual practices13:45 Bill’s take on Liam’s experience – Arising & Passing (A&P)14:22 Kevin Rose interview with Zen Master Henry Shukman – Arising and Passing event16:20 Bill’s Arising & Passing experiences17:18 Universality of these types of experiences19:00 Liam’s first experiences with Goenka style Vipassana retreats22:30 Seeking meditation references – Alan Wallace – The Attention Revolution24:00 Phenomenon of extreme Jhanic states and how Liam understands the possibility in them28:00 Encounters with Allan Wallace, contemplative PhD, and his Attention revolution book31:00 Liam meeting Allan Wallace and reasons for seeking other teachers35:00 Liam’s 6 month meditation retreat and decisions why38:30 Funny experiences on retreat40:30 Kindness on Liam’s retreat41:00 What Liam practiced on his retreat46:00 Brasington’s different explanation of Jhanic states52:00 Bill on meditative attachment53:00 Liam on Shinzen Young’s meditative maximisation of life56:00 Spiritual bypassing59:00 Contemplating meditation for the masses1:01:00 MBSR’s powerful benefits1:03:00 Liam’s experiences teaching mindfulness to schoolkids1:04:00 Deep history, human records in the fossil record, dinosaur civilizations and moon visits
Links
Liam’s site – liamchai.com
Books
Daniel Ingram – Mastering the core teachings of the BuddhaAllan Wallace – Attention revolutionLeigh Brasington – Right Concentration
We’re on Youtube too 😄