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Interview with Joel Lesko (Tears of the Buddha: Spirituality & Emotion)
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Joel Lesko is a long-time meditator and a filmmaker. He set out in this film, Tears of the Buddha Spiritual and Emotions, to find out what modern Buddhistic, or Advaita, non-dual oriented teachers teach - about spirituality, and specifically about how to orient towards one's inner emotional life on the spiritual path.
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000 - 315 Ashland, Oregon. Tears of the Buddha introduced. Some spiritual autobiography leading up making of Tears of the Buddha. Importance of paying attention to nondual teachings in relation to how daily life is lived.
315 - 509 The making of Tears of the Buddha. Does the filmmaker Joel disappear into the self-inquirer in the making of this film?
509 - 1004 How Joel got into filmmaking and how his goals and purpose have changed toward his own investigation. The two major challenges in the making the film.
1005 - 1243 What Joel learned about himself from making Tears of the Buddha. What teachers are really saying regarding emotions and how it bears on your life.
1243 - 1415 Redefining of enlightenment in terms of embodiment. Karl Renz. Gratitude to the teachers interviewed.
1415 - 1728 The scripted versus the personal side of teachers exposed. The sealed-off character of most teachers he interviewed. Gangaji.
1728 - 1934 Some people's enlightenment discounts the personal, Joel says. A new public conversation on spirituality and emotion.
1934 - 2103 The one teacher who said emotions, rather than consciousness, are intrinsic to life. Daniel Barron. How could enlightenment be redefined?
2103 - 2724 Joel's use of the term "Buddhistic" and the nature of the title Terms of the Buddha. What if the essence of our human life is not consciousness? The gnawing feeling in the heart. The validity of emotions.
2724 - 2936 Maybe we're here to embrace our woundings rather than dismiss or transcend them.
2936 - 3232 Getting personal about facing that gnawing. Psychotherapy. Karl Renz's view on the self and transcendence.
3232 - 3404 Nature of teachers as confident. Value of film as a featuring of teachers addressing same questions.
3404 - 3843 Joel is asked about what he meant at the end of Tears of the Buddha, as far as what Buddha would teach today and the wholesale transcendence of the person. What if there is something more essential than transcendence of duality? Success as a filmmaker is the raising of questions. The teachers are missing something.
3843 - 4151 Is a teacher essential? Questions in that regard. Shadow questions. Looking at emotion rather than transcending. Emotional healing of wounds. Karl Renz and Daniel Barron.
4151 - 4829 Tears of the Buddha. Some revelations on making it. Some further comments to enhance the viewing and to clarify the themes.
4829 - 5108 Dealing with everyday life. Emotion as just energy moving and what that means for your personal life and looking at the root of what a teacher says regarding emotions.
5108 - 5418 Some financial and creative realities on making Tears of the Buddha. Christopher Alexander saying to create something as though it's a "gift to God."
5418 - 5800 Transcendental Meditation and some more of Joel's background. The truth of nondual enlightenment and stretching that over daily life as if that's the whole truth, and problems created. Embracing emotional life.
5800 - 10011 Our conditioning negativizes certain experiences or could avoid them by asking, "Who is asking about negative emotions?"
10011 - 10646 The inquiry of asking what is most essential. Spiritual conditioning saying that emotions are impediments. Listening deeply to the teachers in the film because they tend to use the same words. Staying open. Asking "What if" questions.
10646 - 10936 Teachers conditioning their students. Joel's experience with emotions while studying TM. The split between feeling what you feel and being conditioned to seal off those feelings.
10936 - 11600 Vipassana meditation giving space to emotions and the possibility that this could create a splitting off or a transcendence or a diminishment of experience. Anger. The nature of spirit, heart, and humanity. Depression arising from avoidance of emotion through nondual transcendence.
11600 - 12014 Joel asks about Jerry's background in publicizing nonduality. The nature of nonduality interviews. Jeff Foster's view of emotions. Teachers changing. The apparent fixity of older established teachers.
12014 - 12510 Joel's corporate film work related to education and the workplace. His future film based on Buddhistic questions.
12510 - 12647 Reflections on the interview. The word "Buddhistic" and need to clarify it for people who expect it to be tied to Buddhism.
Trailer, reviews, download info brightagefilms.com/
Play or Download link
nonduality.com/joellesko5feb2013.mp3
Tracks
000 - 315 Ashland, Oregon. Tears of the Buddha introduced. Some spiritual autobiography leading up making of Tears of the Buddha. Importance of paying attention to nondual teachings in relation to how daily life is lived.
315 - 509 The making of Tears of the Buddha. Does the filmmaker Joel disappear into the self-inquirer in the making of this film?
509 - 1004 How Joel got into filmmaking and how his goals and purpose have changed toward his own investigation. The two major challenges in the making the film.
1005 - 1243 What Joel learned about himself from making Tears of the Buddha. What teachers are really saying regarding emotions and how it bears on your life.
1243 - 1415 Redefining of enlightenment in terms of embodiment. Karl Renz. Gratitude to the teachers interviewed.
1415 - 1728 The scripted versus the personal side of teachers exposed. The sealed-off character of most teachers he interviewed. Gangaji.
1728 - 1934 Some people's enlightenment discounts the personal, Joel says. A new public conversation on spirituality and emotion.
1934 - 2103 The one teacher who said emotions, rather than consciousness, are intrinsic to life. Daniel Barron. How could enlightenment be redefined?
2103 - 2724 Joel's use of the term "Buddhistic" and the nature of the title Terms of the Buddha. What if the essence of our human life is not consciousness? The gnawing feeling in the heart. The validity of emotions.
2724 - 2936 Maybe we're here to embrace our woundings rather than dismiss or transcend them.
2936 - 3232 Getting personal about facing that gnawing. Psychotherapy. Karl Renz's view on the self and transcendence.
3232 - 3404 Nature of teachers as confident. Value of film as a featuring of teachers addressing same questions.
3404 - 3843 Joel is asked about what he meant at the end of Tears of the Buddha, as far as what Buddha would teach today and the wholesale transcendence of the person. What if there is something more essential than transcendence of duality? Success as a filmmaker is the raising of questions. The teachers are missing something.
3843 - 4151 Is a teacher essential? Questions in that regard. Shadow questions. Looking at emotion rather than transcending. Emotional healing of wounds. Karl Renz and Daniel Barron.
4151 - 4829 Tears of the Buddha. Some revelations on making it. Some further comments to enhance the viewing and to clarify the themes.
4829 - 5108 Dealing with everyday life. Emotion as just energy moving and what that means for your personal life and looking at the root of what a teacher says regarding emotions.
5108 - 5418 Some financial and creative realities on making Tears of the Buddha. Christopher Alexander saying to create something as though it's a "gift to God."
5418 - 5800 Transcendental Meditation and some more of Joel's background. The truth of nondual enlightenment and stretching that over daily life as if that's the whole truth, and problems created. Embracing emotional life.
5800 - 10011 Our conditioning negativizes certain experiences or could avoid them by asking, "Who is asking about negative emotions?"
10011 - 10646 The inquiry of asking what is most essential. Spiritual conditioning saying that emotions are impediments. Listening deeply to the teachers in the film because they tend to use the same words. Staying open. Asking "What if" questions.
10646 - 10936 Teachers conditioning their students. Joel's experience with emotions while studying TM. The split between feeling what you feel and being conditioned to seal off those feelings.
10936 - 11600 Vipassana meditation giving space to emotions and the possibility that this could create a splitting off or a transcendence or a diminishment of experience. Anger. The nature of spirit, heart, and humanity. Depression arising from avoidance of emotion through nondual transcendence.
11600 - 12014 Joel asks about Jerry's background in publicizing nonduality. The nature of nonduality interviews. Jeff Foster's view of emotions. Teachers changing. The apparent fixity of older established teachers.
12014 - 12510 Joel's corporate film work related to education and the workplace. His future film based on Buddhistic questions.
12510 - 12647 Reflections on the interview. The word "Buddhistic" and need to clarify it for people who expect it to be tied to Buddhism.