Interpersonal dharma. Devon 11.2001

November 10th 2001. James Low talked about the application of dharma in psychotherapy at The Sharpham Trust, in Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom.

This is an audio-only recording with background video extracted from "The flow of transmission and the transmission of flow. Macclesfield 06.2007".

Audio edited by Wendy.

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Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrRJd7DtSjo

Chapters

00:00 Living applied phenomenology through Dzogchen

09:08 Historical and cultural context of Tibetan Buddhism

21:57 The three poisons: stupidity, attachment and aversion

30:49 Taking refuge in the Buddha, dharma and sangha

44:19 Finding security without mastery

51:07 Observing thoughts and feelings to understand self

1:05:46 The body of experience and the body of representation

1:14:06 The impact of inner dialogues and self-judgment on the body

1:25:28 Dissociation and difficulty integrating traumatic experience

1:36:55 The three stages of ignorance

1:46:59 The construction of self in relation to others

1:59:47 Introduction to Dzogchen: the great completion

2:07:23 The mirror as metaphor for mind's nature

2:13:57 Attachment theory and the constraint of predictability

2:25:20 The central channel and the side channels

2:31:48 The central channel (avadhuti) and ungraspability

2:38:58 Attunement and finding value in the other's perspective

2:53:30 Finding value through attunement with others

3:01:00 Karma and rebirth as explanatory frameworks

3:06:46 Explanations as skillful means, not truth

3:17:21 The two accumulations: merit and wisdom

3:26:55 Beliefs as skillful means (upaya)

3:38:24 Form is emptiness: reflection and essential being

3:47:57 Family systems and situational loss of self

3:54:15 Staying with the breath during engagement

3:59:27 Mirroring and the development of narcissism in childhood

4:06:17 Authenticity and adapting to relational limitations

4:14:18 Resourcing through meditation and infinite nature

4:28:32 The depressive position and living ambivalence

4:35:29 Dzogchen as direct recognition of indestructible nature

4:42:08 Agency and identification with resistance

4:50:25 Identity as co-creation with others

4:56:01 The three A practice: emptiness and form

5:05:13 The four-fold frame: view, meditation, activity, result

5:12:38 The three modes of arising: dang, tsel and rolpa

5:19:36 Breathing in the five elements

5:26:30 Returning to familiar patterns and observing the self

5:31:30 Self and other as process rather than solid entities

5:48:15 Compassion as balance between self and other

5:54:46 Attachment to negative identity and ruling in hell

6:00:15 Trusting presence over planning interventions

6:12:26 Power, capacity and ethical responsibility in practice

6:21:57 Closing meditation and instructions