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Podcast #5: Daniel Ingram - Experiencing No-Self Part 2

Daniel discusses his personal experience of realising the truth of there not being a 'Self'

Daniel is an emergency room physician, author of ‘Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha,’ founder of Dharma Overground and holds an M.D., M.S.P.H. in Epidemiology, and B.A. in English Literature all from UNC Chapel Hill.

DISCUSSION TOPICS

00:56 A more highly attuned apparatus perceives more accurately
5:40 Self-narrative thought and the default mode network
9:10 Anxiety doesn’t activate the default mode network, narrow focus does
16:51 The physiological response to the imagination
20:30 The nature of thought and no thought after realisation
23:04 Sense of intention remains
24:52 There is no observer
25:25 The feeling of ‘I’ remains but is seen to not be ‘I’

28:34 Others may not notice your perspective shift
29:16 Selfconsciousenss may continue with a different perspective
31:40 Internal monologue
35:11 Identification, the body and functioning
40:15 Out of body experiences

COMPARISON OF METHODS: DZOGCHEN, MAHAMUDRA, THEREVADA

43:15 Extinguishing even the remnant of the ‘I’
45:30 Increasing resolution of attention and attuned to specific components of an "I"
46:30 Mahamudra & Dzogchen Awareness practice takes the result as the method

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