Cheri Huber On the Impact of Our Mind on Our Direct Experience

Cheri Huber On the Impact of Our Mind on Our Direct Experience

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Cheri Huber is the author of 20 books and has been a student of zen for 35 years. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Peace Center, both in California, where she and other monks teach workshops and hold retreats. She is also a truth telling, light hearted delight to listen to. In this interview, she talks all about what is going on in our mind and how we can better work with it to produce a better experience in life. Her wisdom is so practical and so powerful. See for yourself in this transformative episode.

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In This Interview, Cheri Huber and I Discuss...

  • The Wolf Parable
  • Her book, I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about it
  • How the process IS the outcome
  • That now is the only moment there is
  • How the quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention
  • Everything comes into being, together
  • She doesn't believe that there's anything that ISN'T God
  • Our dualistic thinking
  • All of the ways to refer to the ego
  • The unique ability that humans have to experience themselves as other than life
  • The ego is a survival system
  • Believing we are not connected to life
  • Everything is a verb! A gerund
  • The illusion of being separate from life
  • My ego is the no to life's yes
  • Always asking what's lacking, what's missing, what's wrong keeps the ego as the center of the universe
  • How we are deeply conditioned for negativity
  • Awareness being able to watch the conditioned mind
  • I hear it in my head, it sounds like me, it must be me, it's who I am
  • Approach the stuff that's going on inside our heads by imagining that it's somebody next to you saying it
  • Recording and Listening
  • Make recordings of what's true, what I appreciate, what I love
  • Hearing what's true for you in your own voice
  • Talking ourselves into a life that's true
  • How we direct our attention is the be all and end all in life
  • We have these tendencies to see what's negative so we need to bring ourselves to what is true that isn't negative
  • We transcend the conditioned mind, we don't resist it
  • The key is to turn your attention away from the negative voices not to change what they are saying
  • The habit of going with the conversation in your head is so powerful
  • If we can wake up out of it, we can decide to go somewhere else in our attention
  • Hear Cheri Huber talk about her book, I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about it
  • Cheri Huber teaches that the process IS the outcome
  • Cheri Huber explains what she means by this: your ego is the "no" to life's "yes"
  • Do you believe that we are deeply conditioned for negativity or hardwired for negativity?
  • Here's a tip: Approach the stuff that's going on inside our heads by imagining that it's somebody next to you saying it
  • The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention


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