Mindsprings Podcast with Alistair Appleton Alistair Appleton
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- Religion & Spirituality
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Podcast from meditation teacher Alistair Appleton on dharma, psychotherapy, neuroscience and more. Info at www.mind-springs.org
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Dissociated Love
Following one of the live sessions, Alistair talks about the experience of dissociation. This is a natural function of our minds, but it can also erase our natural kindness - especially towards ourselves. How do you work with dissociation?
#dissociation #psychology #Buddhism #Mindsprings
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Mud on the Buddha
An excerpt from the Holy Island Retreat October 2022. Alistair is talking about the theory of Buddha nature, that we are already enlightened at our core. And even it's not true - is it beneficial? Does it change the way we are in the world. And does it lead us to the beautiful moment of taking our bodhisattva vow.
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Forgettery
This is an excerpt from the Holy island Retreat in October 2023 which was focusing on the wisdom aspect of compassion.
Alistair sketches out the way compassion is seen within the various yanas of Buddhism and how 'forgettery' lies in the centre of our suffering and the suffering of others. -
Other People's Anxiety
Discussing with Mindsprings member, Dameon, about the issue of other people's anxiety. Our anxiety work often - rightly- focuses on getting our own nervous systems under control. But what about the people around us?
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Narcissism vs. Love
Following a meditation exploring self-love, we were talking about the nuttiness of hating your experience. After all, it's the only one we're going to have.
I then went on to flag up the social prohibition against loving ourselves - it's a bit "grandiose", or "selfish" or worse: "narcissistic.
But narcissism is very different from love...
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The Negative News Industry
The negative news industry.
Responding to a student’s comment on the distractions of the news media, Alistair speaks about the nature of news as an industry and the myth of ‘being informed’ that drives it.
What if we were to question the mechanism of news and what it means for us?
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