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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Topics
- 1:00 Intro to Liam and going “off script”
- 1:40 How me and Liam met via Jasmine & Awakin Circle
- 4:30 How Liam began his road to spirituality
- 6:03 Liam’s first meditation experiences
- 8:00 Vipassana’s life changing experience for Liam (sexual ref)
- 12:15 Did Liam tell the teachers about the occurrence?
- 13:20 Daoist sexual practices
- 13:45 Bill’s take on Liam’s experience – Arising & Passing (A&P)
- 14:22 Kevin Rose interview with Zen Master Henry Shukman – Arising and Passing event
- 16:20 Bill’s Arising & Passing experiences
- 17:18 Universality of these types of experiences
- 19:00 Liam’s first experiences with Goenka style Vipassana retreats
- 22:30 Seeking meditation references – Alan Wallace – The Attention Revolution
- 24:00 Phenomenon of extreme Jhanic states and how Liam understands the possibility in them
- 28:00 Encounters with Allan Wallace, contemplative PhD, and his Attention revolution book
- 31:00 Liam meeting Allan Wallace and reasons for seeking other teachers
- 35:00 Liam’s 6 month meditation retreat and decisions why
- 38:30 Funny experiences on retreat
- 40:30 Kindness on Liam’s retreat
- 41:00 What Liam practiced on his retreat
- 46:00 Brasington’s different explanation of Jhanic states
- 52:00 Bill on meditative attachment
- 53:00 Liam on Shinzen Young’s meditative maximisation of life
- 56:00 Spiritual bypassing
- 59:00 Contemplating meditation for the masses
- 1:01:00 MBSR’s powerful benefits
- 1:03:00 Liam’s experiences teaching mindfulness to schoolkids
- 1:04:00 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 Buddha
- Allan Wallace – Attention revolution
- Leigh Brasington – Right Concentration
We’re on Youtube too 😄