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In this episode I am joined by Victor Shiryaev a teacher of Buddhist and modern meditation and somatic practices.
Victor recounts his childhood in the Soviet Union, early underground exposure to the New Age, and subsequent study of Avaita Vedānta and Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory.
Victor details his discipleship under American mindfulness teacher Shinzen Young, reflects on the tension between tradition and innovation, and shares stories of his own awakening experiences.
Victor also lays out his disagreements with Shinzen Young’s approach, critiques the Pragmatic Dharma’s use of maps and stages, and presents his own understanding of the spiritual experiences to be expected on the road to awakening and beyond.
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Topics include:
- Intro
- Childhood in the Soviet Union
- Exposure to the New Age and psychotherapy
- Studying Chinese History at university
- Advaita Vedānta and Ken Wilber
- Unity experience
- Altered states and psychic phenomena
- Personal crisis
- Awakening in Myanmar
- “I know what I have is working”
- Meeting Shinzen Young and adopting his model
- Observational statistics
- Studying with Shinzen
- Divorce and launching meditation teaching career
- Finding a path thru crisis
- Writing a letter to nature
- Finding purpose in spirituality
- Victor’s teaching approach and activities
- Why go deeper in practice?
- Creating a culture of openness
- Shinzen & Ken Wilber vs Victor
- Being a clear conduit
- I am not a Buddhist teacher
- Experience vs faith
- Disagreements with Shinzen
- Disagreements with Theravāda
- Shinzen’s modernism and scientism
- Steve’s understanding of Shinzen
- Victor’s update on Shinzen’s scientism
- Heretics and reformers
- Fundamentalism and the world-centred view
- A world-centred view is also fundamentalist
- Victor on the Pragmatic Dharma movement
- Hypocrisy of Pragmatic Dharma
- Traditional vs modern practitioners
- Critique of maps and stages
- First stage: thoughts to presence
- Second stage: all experience is consciousness
- One taste
- Intimacy with all things
- The consciousness trap
- We shape our experience
- The pregnant void
- Victor’s view of the path
To find out more about Victor Shiryaev, visit:
- victorshiryaev.co
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- www.guruviking.com
Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James
