Roger, Ravi, Sam Flashcards
Spiritual _____ are key to embodying spiritual ideas
Practices
Roger
Perhaps the Universe is infinite in time, space and ______.
Imagination
ME.
Roger: We can have different levels of maturity in different ____ _____.
Developmental dimensions.
Roger, Ken Wilbur
You can never get enough of what you don’t really _____.
Roger Walsh calls this sub____ gr_____.
Want.
Substitute Gratifications.
Roger Walsh said experiencing higher states of consciousness does not necessarily increase your psychological ____
Maturity
Roger: Ethics is a profound _____ for the mind.
For example checking your _____ before you act. Fear or love? Scarcity or abundance?
Training
Intentions
Roger
Ravi: Don’t mistake expression of the truth for __ _____ itself.
The Truth
Ravi
Ken: Just because a person lacks psychological maturity doesn’t mean they can’t experience higher s____ of c_____.
state of consciousness
One of the most important practices suggested by all traditions is impartial, sustained s___ s____,.
Impartial sustain self study.
Ravi
As I am, so I ____ - as I ___ so I become.
React
Respond
Ravi
There is an un______ component of spiritual growth were we set the right i_______ and then it emerges a_________ on it’s own.
Unconscious
Conditions
Automatically
Roger
Sam says Each of us is looking for a path back to the p____.
We are trying to find good enough reasons to be s_____ now.
Present
Satisfied
Sam Harris
Love is wanting the other person to be h_____.
Happy.
Sam Harris
Loss of self c______ is a beautiful thing. Strive for it.
Consciousness
Sam Harris’s
Spirituality is the effort people make to fully bring their minds into the p____ or induce non-o____ states of consciousness.
Present
Non-ordinary
Sam Harris
Another of Sam’s definitions of spirituality:
Deepening the understanding that the self is an _____ and repeated cutting through that illusion.
Illusion.
Sam says he spends too much of his waking life in a ______ trance.
Neurotic
Is it possible to be happy _____ anything happens, before my desires are gratified, in spite of life’s difficulties, in the very midst of physical pain, old age, disease and death?
Before
Sam
Most people identify with the next ____ that pops into ____.
Glimpsing an alternative dispels the conventional i_____ of self.
Thought
Consciousness
Illusion
The burn of lifting weights can feel “good.”
This suggests the way we ____ about experience can radically influence how we feel about it.
Think
Sam
Is it possible to be at e___ in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time.
Ease
Sam
Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta contains empiritual insights into the nature of c____ that do not depend upon f____.
Consciousness
Faith
Sam Harris
Buddha’s real name was S_____.
He arguable woke up from the dream of being a s____ s____.
Siddhartha
Separate Self
Sam Harris, Waking Up, 30.
Buddhism and Adviata Vedanta clearly asset that spiritual life consists in overcoming the ____ of ____ by paying close attention to our e________ in the p_____ _____.
Illusion
Self
Experience
Present Moment
Sam Harris, Waking Up, 31
Sam believes there is nothing more important to understand if you want to be happy in the world than this:
It is always ____
Now.
Sam, Waking Up, 34.
There is nothing s_____ about Mindfulness.
At it’s essence, all it is is c___ a____.
Spooky
Clear Awareness.
Sam, Waking Up, 35.
There is nothing p___ about Mindfulness.
It is being u_____.
Being mindful isn’t about t___ more clearly about experience, it is the act of e_____ more clearly, including the arising of thoughts, without grasping at the pleasant or recoiling from the u______.
There is nothing PASSIVE about Mindfulness.
It is being UNDISTRACTED.
Being mindful isn’t about THINKING more clearly about experience, it is the act of EXPERIENCING more clearly, including the arising of thoughts, without grasping at the pleasant or recoiling from the UNPLEASANT.
Sam, Waking Up, 36
The principal enemy of minfulness is being _____ by _____.
The problem isn’t the thoughts - it’s the state of ____ without knowing we are _____.
Distracted
Thoughts
Thinking
Thinking
Sam, Waking Up, 36
The change in experience from mindfulness comes when we experience the present moment prior to the a____ of t_____.
Arising
Thought
Sam, Waking Up, 38
How can I be free of my usual conditioned self so that I can then actually see, hear, relate with and act from the real particular divinity of the b____ of G___ that animates me.
And remember - I did not c___ myself. I am born of the U____.
Breath of God
Create
Universe
Ravi
The essence of spiritual practice, Ravi says, is to move from _____ to _____. That’s the way of self transformation. New behaviors. If it’s always just reacting, I’m just ____ what I’ve always ___ . Break the p____: think and respond in a new way.
Reaction to Response
Doing
Done
Pattern
