#AWAKEN MY MASTERS HOW TO#

– When Orion was younger, she used to do what Douglas has been recommending.– Douglas discusses how we can live more in awakened states.

– What’s the difference between being spiritual in the sense of being present in the moment and expressing your feelings (including anger), and being a destructive jerk?.

#AWAKEN MY MASTERS HOW TO#

– Douglas talks about how to react proactively in the moment when someone treats you badly.– Why can’t we just stop suffering? In his answer, Douglas shares something that his teacher told him once: unless you start staying in the present moment, there is no more growth.– Something that really helped Orion to be present with her body in the moment was taking pole dancing classes.The key is to fall out of resistance and not get sucked back into being engaged as the mind fighting the mind. – Douglas always tell people that they’ve been duped by the mind for their entire lives.– The first step is just to understand that you happen to be in a physical, animal body that has a brain that constantly labels, assess, and compares sensory inputs.– Orion has a hard time accepting things when they’re hard, or when there’s a major gap between reality and expectation.– What is Douglas’ definition of spirituality, and what is it to be spiritual?.– Douglas points out that high states of consciousness are not the end goal, but they’re very special things that change your perception forever.Douglas then explains some of what happened in the experience that Orion has described.

– Orion takes a moment to share a powerful experience that she had at Oneness University in India.

– What’s a being, or an avatar? And is Douglas himself an avatar in the sense that he has been describing?.

– Douglas discusses why he loves and respects his master so much, and raves about how special it is to spend time around him.

– We hear about Douglas’ transition from being a monk to living in the Western world again, which in some ways was surprisingly easy.

– Douglas talks about what his guru told him, and how he ended up getting sent home to help others.

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