Notes from Susy
This is the main “notes” file I’ll be using for our meetings.
Practicing with images, aspects of an image, axioms
Meeting Recordings
(teaching portions only – no recording of questions/discussions)
Sept 8, 2021 – Week 1 Teaching – Introduction / Guided Meditation can be found here
Miscellaneous
Suggestions for practicing with images pulled from “Heart Art and an introduction to Images” in PDF form.
For a different perspective, here are painting instructions
Talks fom Rob…
In Love with the Way
Talk explores some prevalent fantasies of the Buddhist path + suggestions for inquiring into your own fantasies of the path (eros and image in relationship to our paths)
Link to both talk audio on Dharmaseed + PDF transcript
Heart Art, and an Introduction to Image
Talk covers 1) working with difficult emotions via energy body and practicing with images and 2) gives a brief (for Rob) overview of what an “imaginal” image is and some suggestions for practicing with them.
Link to both talk audio on Dharmaseed + PDF transcript
What is an Image (Parts 1 & 2)
An “imaginal” image defined over two talks…
Part one link to both talk audio on Dharmaseed + PDF transcript
Part two Link to both talk audio on Dharmaseed + PDF transcript
Note: The five Aspects of the Imaginal talks from Mirrored Gates series is a later, much longer exploration of this theme.
Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (Pt. 1 & 2)
How to work with images in meditation.
Part 1 – link to talk on Dharmaseed + PDF transcript
Part 2 – link to talk on Dharmaseed + PDF transcript
Further recommended talks on these themes of Image, Mythos/Fantasy and Cosmopoesis
The Art of Perception
How to hold and relate to this endeavor of imaginal practice and the idea of the imaginal realm, with some historical context/references. Short, early list of aspects of the imaginal.
Link to both talk audio on Dharmaseed + PDF transcript
In Love with the Way – Images of Path and of Self
Talk about different “fantasies” of the spiritual path with suggestions for exploring our own.
Link to both talk audio on Dharmaseed + PDF transcript
Image, Mythos, and Dharma (Part Three)
Part of a series of 5 talks, this talk opens up the possiblity of entertaining different conceptual frameworks around images/imagination, including the idea that images may be primary in how we experience.
Link to both talk audio on Dharmaseed + PDF transcript
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 5)
Includes examples from Rob’s practice of Cosmopoesis/Theophany
Link to both talk audio on Dharmaseed + PDF transcript
Here is a talk about Desire and the possible ways to relate to it:
The Beauty of Desire (part 2)
Part one is also good – but this second part is more about distinguishing the relationship between clinging/craving and how desire/eros is approached in his later teachings.
Link to talk on Dharmaseed + PDF transcript