Ted Meissner —The FBY Interview

Freedom Becomes You with Julian Walker

Please enjoy this unique conversation with Ted Meissner. His way of understanding and sharing Buddhist teaching and practice from a contemporary, secular perspective really illuminates the possibilities of an integrated and grounded journey. We touch on many topics: meditation, psychology, psychedelics, enlightenment, beliefs, reality, spiritual bypassing, and our personal journeys of evolution in terms of how we think about the word “spirituality.” Ted: “As we look more externally in search of something on the outside, that takes us farther away from what’s inside, what’s in our heart right here, right now. This is not anything supernatural, it is very mundane, it is the ordinary. It is this single breath. That type of focus, if you read Dogen and some other Zen authors and even the Pali canon, you see references to this, This, THIS —as not somewhere else, not a place to get to, but a wakefulness to what’s already here…. This is often lost in some places, with some teachers, when it is held up on a pedestal as being separate from others…” Theme music used by permission of http://www.jesseblakemusic.com/ Interviews, articles and more at https://www.freedombecomesyou.com