Everyday Buddhism 43 - Awakening to the Ordinary with Dr. Christiane Michelberger

Published: May 28, 2020, 6:35 p.m.

Join me for a special guest episode with Dr. Christiane Michelberger, a retired physician, psychoanalyst, and past spiritual seeker who currently mentors seekers in their quest to awaken.

Christiane talks about how more than 10,000 hours of meditation and 40 years of studying Buddhist scriptures didn\u2019t help her deal with debilitating fear when she was faced with the reality of breast cancer. It was then that she took steps to escape from a habit of "spiritual sleepwalking" and find a way to see through the 'me' that it is at the heart of our dissatisfaction, unhappiness, and suffering.

Christiane and I share a wide-ranging conversation about the importance of seeing through the 'me' \u2026 embracing the ordinary \u2026 why meditation may not be enough \u2026 shifting from spiritual illusions to simple reality ... spiritual bypassing \u2026 brainwashing and guru worship \u2026 and dealing with the stages of grief we might be going through during the new pandemic reality we find ourselves in.