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Culadasa's audio archive

by Culadasa, Dr. John Yates

The Mind Illuminated podcast from Culadasa (John Yates, Ph.D.) combines age-old teachings with the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, providing meditators with step-by-step guidance for every stage of the path – from your very first sit, all the way to mastery of the deepest states of peace and insight. Culadasa is a meditation master with over four decades of experience in the Tibetan and Theravadin Buddhist traditions. He taught physiology and neuroscience for many years at the Universities of Calgary and British Columbia. Later, he worked at the forefront of healthcare education and therapeutic massage, serving as the founding director of the West Coast College of Massage Therapy. Culadasa retired from academia in 1996, moving with his wife into an old Apache stronghold in the Arizona wilderness, where they deepened their spiritual practice together. He currently leads the Dharma Treasure Buddhist Sangha in Tucson, Arizona and holds retreats across the Uni

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  1. Culadasa December 2019 Patreon Q&A - Nº 1 (Sunday)

    Buy Culadasa's books on Amazon: amazon.com/author/culadasa Follow Culadasa on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Culadasa.John.Yates Much more at: http://culadasa.com/

  2. Culadasa November 2019 Patreon Q&A - Nº 3

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  3. Culadasa November 2019 Patreon Q&A - Nº 2

    Buy Culadasa's books on Amazon: amazon.com/author/culadasa Follow Culadasa on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Culadasa.John.Yates Much more at: culadasa.com/

  4. Culadasa July 2019 Patreon Q&A

    Buy Culadasa's books on Amazon: amazon.com/author/culadasa Follow Culadasa on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Culadasa.John.Yates Much more at: culadasa.com/

  5. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 2 - Why Walk the Path?

    Buy Culadasa's books on Amazon: amazon.com/author/culadasa Follow Culadasa on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Culadasa.John.Yates Much more at: http://culadasa.com

  6. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 1 - Introducing the New Curriculum: An Overview and Explanation

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  7. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 15 - The Noble Eightfold Path (4)

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  8. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 14 - The Noble Eightfold Path (3)

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  9. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 13 - The Noble Eightfold Path (2)

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  10. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 12 - The Noble Eightfold Path

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  11. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 11 - The Four Noble Truths (2)

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  12. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 10 - The Four Noble Truths

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  13. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 9 - Preparing the Soil: How to Approach the Path (2)

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  14. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 8 - Preparing the Soil: How to Approach the Path

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  15. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 7 - Exploring The Goal of the Path: What is Enlightenment? (4)

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  16. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 6 - Exploring The Goal of the Path: What is Enlightenment? (3)

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  17. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 5 - Exploring The Goal of the Path: What is Enlightenment? (2)

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  18. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 4 - Exploring The Goal of the Path: What is Enlightenment?

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  19. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 3 - Why Walk the Path? (2)

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  20. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 30

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  21. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 29

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  22. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 28

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  23. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 27

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  24. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 26

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  25. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 25

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  26. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 23

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  27. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 22

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  28. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 21

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  29. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 20

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  30. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 19

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  31. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 18

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  32. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 17 - The Self

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  33. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 16 - The Unconscious

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  34. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part, 37

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  35. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 38

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  36. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 36

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  37. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 35

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  38. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 34

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  39. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 33

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  40. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 32

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  41. Culadasa's Curriculum, Part 31

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  42. Culadasa March 2018 Patreon Q&A

    Timestamps: 2:24 - Could you comment on [fire kasina or trataka] practice and say whether or not you see it as useful, in particular for working on TMI stages? 19:51 - Is there anything you retain from [your earlier Advaita Vedanta and TM practice] that you found beneficial to you on the path…

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  43. Culadasa September 2018 Patreon Q&A

    Timestamps: 2:05 Is it useful for one to specifically practice awareness of sounds or visual objects in order to strengthen introspective awareness of those senses, or can one obtain the same clarity through body awareness alone? ​ 7:18 What are the differences between feeling and emotion? ​15:38...

  44. Culadasa August 2018 Patreon Q&A

    Timestamps: 1:26 - Could you talk about the different progressions that can happen (from first to second to third and fourth path via different gateways between first and second)? 19:55 - If one were to achieve First Path from an insight into interconnectedness resulting in a few-week-long…

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  45. Culadasa July 2018 Patreon Q&A

    Timestamps: 00:11 How do I know when my ego structure is healthy enough that I can go for insight without worry? 15:36 Obstacles to the spread of the Dharma? Supernatural aspects, dogma, redefinitions and reinterpretation of attainments (experiences x states x traits), secularization and the...

  46. Culadasa June 2018 Patreon Q&A

    Timestamps: 0:00 - TMI I was mostly about Samatha, will you be writing a book about insight too? What resources and methods do you recommend for a meditator to develop their insight? 4:44 - Explain the purification process from the perspective of a stage 4 practitioner. I still feel unsure about...

  47. Culadasa May 2018 Patreon Q&A

    Timestamps: 2:55 Culadasa's health, new book and ongoing Stronghold changes 12:40 Is there value in a gradual release of effort to cultivate sukha (or more pleasurable piti) at lower levels of energy? 24:50 Integration of the jhanas with Asanga’s nine mental abidings in TMI. Is TMI an original...

  48. Culadasa April 2018 Patreon Q&A Catch-Up

    Timestamps: 7:45 - A number of people are having difficulty advancing from 2nd to 3rd path, any advice? 19:15 - Clarify Culadasa’s view of the relationship between the mind and the brain? 27:35 - What are the “5 insights” that culadasa refers to at times? 34:58 - Thoughts on meditating yourself…

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  49. Culadasa April 2018 Patreon Q&A

    Timestamps: 01:45 Alcohol and marijuana versus 5th precept, self exploration, and their effects on anxiety. 10:24 Follow up to the above on psychedelics, importance of set and setting. 13:34 Use of earplugs in meditation. 15:38 Creativity and mindfulness. 21:28 Peripheral awareness and…

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  50. Culadasa January 2018 Patreon Q&A

    Timestamps: 01:26 How do I know when I move from stream enterer to once returner? Are there any practices to accelerate the progression. 08:50 |follow up question| Is it considered craving if I intend something to happen? 13:55 What is the most likely progression on stages of awakening? (first…

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The Mind Illuminated podcast from Culadasa (John Yates, Ph.D.) combines age-old teachings with the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, providing meditators with step-by-step guidance for every stage of the path – from your very first sit, all the way to mastery of the deepest states of peace and insight. Culadasa is a meditation master with over four decades of experience in the Tibetan and Theravadin Buddhist traditions. He taught physiology and neuroscience for many years at the Universities of Calgary and British Columbia. Later, he worked at the forefront of healthcare education and therapeutic massage, serving as the founding director of the West Coast College of Massage Therapy. Culadasa retired from academia in 1996, moving with his wife into an old Apache stronghold in the Arizona wilderness, where they deepened their spiritual practice together. He currently leads the Dharma Treasure Buddhist Sangha in Tucson, Arizona and holds retreats across the Uni

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