Opening The Heart of Compassion (w/ Simon Brown)

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, 4:30 p.m.

b"Simon Brown returns for a master class on compassion and how it can never be separated from the deepest insights into the non-dual nature of reality itself. \\n\\nWe talk about how compassion and suffering could matter if this world is a kind of illusion, the distinction between empathy and compassion as it relates to burnout, dorsal and ventral vagal mechanisms related to deep trauma conditioning, the true meaning of Christmas and the holiday season and MUCH more.\\n\\nPlease listen to our previous conversation on awakening and trauma here. \\n\\nCheck out Simon's YouTube channel here.\\n\\nHere's that book by Ally Wise that Simon referenced, Embodied Healing.\\n\\nTopics and Timecodes:\\n\\ufeff0:00 Intro\\n4:05 Trust. Does life NEED planning? \\n13:07 Non-dual teachers\\u2019 absolutism, nature of fixation post-awakening\\n20:00 Working with reactivity and separation\\n25:30 Adyashanti\\u2019s resonance and retirement, spiritual perfectionism\\n33:26 Recent retreat insights, feeling everything with compassion\\n37:30 Learning the language of the heart\\n41:43 Dzogchen, emptiness and form, manifesting as awake presence\\n49:27 Nagarjuna, the Middle Way, compassion and acceptance\\n59:30 The work of unfolding is never finished\\n1:03:35 Awareness of thought/consciousness as the 6th sense\\n1:07:15 Why the self is not an enemy, self as a tool to see suffering of others\\n1:12:59 The true meaning of the Heart Sutra, Avalokiteshvara\\n1:20:35 Why suffering and compassion MATTER, when unconditional love meets suffering\\n1:24:05 Compassion vs. Empathy, healthcare professionals, burnout\\n1:31:28 Simon\\u2019s Cat!\\n1:32:15 Self-compassion, early wounding, the traumatized nervous system\\n1:43:15 Elephant and rider model of conscious and unconscious mind, trauma\\n1:44:50 Embodied Health by Ally Wise, ventral and dorsal vagal responses\\n1:48:50 When child\\u2019s basic needs aren\\u2019t met, degrees of trauma, co-regulation\\n1:54:12 Feeling into the primary emotions that trigger thought cascades, the Golden Thread\\n1:58:44 Compassion and the meaning of Christmas and the holiday season\\n\\nVideo show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form:\\xa0https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd\\n\\n\\nSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd\\n\\n\\nMore about Dr. Z:\\xa0https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"