Reverse Meditation with Andrew Holecek
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Whew y’all. Are you ready to go deep today? Like really deep? Because today, we are jumping into the deep end with Buddhist meditation teacher Andrew Holecek.
Andrew is a teacher and author on meditation, lucid dreaming, non-dualism, and preparing to die from a Buddhist perspective. And today we are talking about his new book, Reverse Meditation, how to use your pain and most difficult emotions as the doorway to inner freedom.
This is a rich conversation, particularly for those of you wanting to go deeper in your meditation practice. Andrew talks us through 3 stages of meditation practice and expounds on the how and the why of working with our discomfort, uncertainty, and pain.
Andrew also answers a profound question that comes up so often: Meditation practitioners frequently comment that they feel MORE. They feel their own feelings and the feelings of the world so much more. And the inevitable next question is, “but what do I do with all these feelings?! How do I handle feeling so much more?”
Well, friends, Andrew is about to answer that question for us. So, without further ado, let’s jump into today’s conversation on The Mindful Minute podcast.
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Thank you for sharing this conversation. Yesterday I read "Lincoln in the Bardo" and it made me suspect that I am in a kind of bardo state. I had only heard the bardo state applied to the dead and wondered it if could also be applied to the living. I did some quick research on this that led me to Andrew's work and the answer to my question is "yes". I will practice this reverse meditation technique to help with letting go of unhealthy, outdated attachments.
I'm so glad you found this interview helpful. Bardo can absolutely apply to the living in my experience. Hope the practices here continue to support you.
What a wonderful final meditation; I caught a glimpse of my fear and opened to it.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
This was a beautiful conversation and amazing meditation. Thank you
I'm so glad you enjoyed; thank you!
Excellent interview! Thanks so much for sharing this!
I'm so glad you enjoyed!
❤❤❤❤ I came across this book about a month ago, looooooove it, love this interview. Thank you. So needed right now❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Reverse meditation, kinda sounds like the practice performed by the Aghori that intentionally seek the abhorrent to break from the habitual good vs bad judgement.
Speaking of which, I understand meditating helps you in your normal day-to-day living, but a deeper way is to use it as a tool to grasp the deeper nature of reality (Buddhadharma/liberation/ego or self-dissolution ).
Siddhis suggest there are forms of meditating that allow you to perform extra-ordinary abilities, like alchemy, clairvoyance, astral projection and summoning aliens! However, do these practices help with your spiritual evolution?
For example, I think bardo and Liminal dreaming would be in the same category as Yoga (Shambhavi Mahamudra), but not quite as powerful as Kundalini (ascetic)/ Tantra (the more esoteric practices of Hinduism/Buddhism), nor the the occult-like (Freemasons /Black-Magick/hermetic-order).
Carlo rovelli is yoir favorite scientist? He is a materialist...
🙏 Ty, ty, ty. This conversation is life changing. Just the place on the path that I am and just the tool I needed to go deeper and clean up the dark corners of my life. 🧎♂️➡️ I bow in thanks to both of you for leading me to the next key of my self discovery. Love and peace to you both. I hope you feel the healing you are bringing to the world.❤❤❤❤❤
I'm so glad this landed at the right time for you; thanks for listening!