When the Buddha Needs Therapy with Keith Martin-Smith

A State of Mind

Keith sits down with Julian to discuss his new book, 'When the Buddha Needs Therapy.'

Keith is a long time meditator, martial artist and author of several books, including A Heart Blown Open and The Heart of Zen.

Learn more about Keith at: https://www.keithmartinsmith.com

Partial List of Topics in Chronological Order:

• How Keith is a Long time martial artist
• Bringing together embodiment practice, Buddhist meditation, attachment theory &trauma
• How premodern societies were more securely attached
• Exploring how many of our psychological issues are a product of our contemporary world which premodern societies did not experience
• Meditation as a way to dissolve ego identities
• How your practice can only go as deep as the amount of safety you can access & how that is related to attachment wounding.
• Anxious attachment style with cell phones
• The way in which becoming awake or enlightened leads to much more effective activity in the world
• Adyashanti said that 90% of the questions he received are basically a version of “How do I get away from the present moment?”
• Looking at the attachment issues of putting young children into monasteries
• The role of social status given to spiritual or meditation practice or practitioners
• How every society has a role and value for a kind of shaman/yogi/monk figure
• The psychedelic renaissance and how medicines are encouraging our evolution and to honor that practice again
• Integrating Eastern and Western science
• Spiritual emergencies and not having cultural contexts for spiritual experiences
• How a long meditation retreat can disrupt the default mode network of the mind in a way that is similar to psychedelic use
• The ways in which intensive meditation can bring about a traumatic response
• How the meditation traditions aren’t equipped to handle trauma
• Keith’s point that meditation cannot touch or transform psychological issues which are truly in the shadow or unconscious mind.
• The teaching that no one has ever MADE you angry
• Anger in its most simple terms is clarity
• You can’t get angry if you don’t care
• Tribalism and Conformity
• Levels of Development

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