Host Michael Taft interviews meditation instructor Wystan about instructing awakening outdoors a strict lineage framework, cultural translation of Buddhist apply, why awakening doesn’t “include a Buddhist label,” the strain between preserving conventional kinds and adapting them for contemporary college students, devotion as a robust however usually averted dimension of apply, the heartbreak of compassion as limitations of separateness break down, the significance of turning towards struggling quite than distracting from it, gratitude and forgiveness as attainable “neo-Brahmaviharas,” why shamatha and vipashyana coaching can put together college students for extra direct nondual practices, and Wystan’s encouragement that awakening is actual, attainable, and value pursuing.
Wystan is a meditation instructor threading collectively influences from coaching in Theravada, Zen, Vajrayana, Dzogchen, and Shinzen Younger’s systematic secular method in service of awakening.
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