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In this episode I am once again joined by Dr Ben Joffe anthropologist and scholar practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism.
Dr Joffe shares his recent research and publications on the topic of gegs sel, Tibetan writing about how to remedy the various obstacles and illnesses that can arise during meditation.
Dr Joffe draws on Tibetan gegs sel texts to describe three types of meditation problems and five categories of solution and explains the surprising technique that Taranatha emphasises as central to removing spiritual obstacles.
Dr Joffe also argues that although there has been increased interest in the negative effects of meditation, gegs sel literature remains understudied, and we reflect on the possible incompatibility between Tibetan medical and spiritual cures and modern psychological and psychiatric approaches to meditation injury.
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Topics include:
- Intro
- Spiritual obstacles
- Ben’s research into meditation sickness
- Tibetan oral instructions for adverse yogic effects
- Taranatha on gegs sel
- Ben’s personal experience with gegs sel
- Why is gegs sel so understudied?
- Is intensive tantric practice dangerous?
- Practices should produce signs
- It is timely to talk about meditation sickness
- Differing medical and therapeutic models
- Catching lice in retreat
- Gegs gsel literature is for committed practitioners
- Do tantric solutions make psychiatric symptoms worse?
- Dr Nida on psychosis in retreat
- Dza Paltrul on demons
- Ultimate vs relative
- Guru Yoga and a psychodynamic lens on gegs sel
- Night terrors and deity devotion
- Ben’s experience of devotion
- 3 categories of problems, 5 categories of solutions
- 5 fundamental gegs sel methods
- Dispelling demonic obstacles
- Warning to not ignore devotion
- Meditation experiences vs obstacles
- Simple visualisation methods
- Tsa, rlung, thig le
- Breathing techniques
- How common is meditation sickness?
- The most important thing
- PTSD and MDMA
- Where to read more
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Previous episodes with Dr Ben Joffe:
- guruviking.com/search?q=joffe
To find out more about Dr Ben Joffe, visit:
- perfumedskull.com
- skypressbooks.com
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- guruviking.com
Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James
