MOOJI
DEEPLY EMBODIED ADVAITA TEACHER
Mooji YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/Moojiji
As a mature teacher in his late 60’s, Mooji’s voice alone, in my experience (and many), carries an awakening energy and vibration within it. Diving into his satsangs, videos, and teachings, his energy and embodiment is a blueprint to me. He holds the energy well. I would say to dive deep by listening to some of his guided meditations on his Youtube Channel, or just feel the energy you feel when listening to him. Profound teacher.
In 2018, I was brought onto a project of editing a feature film of Mooji’s teachings. In the process, I went through 300 hours of his teachings, and found profound states awakening within me during the process.
He doesn’t hand you as dynamic a meditative practice as Rob Burbea (in my experience). that is very complex and also pragmatic - extremely supportive. Mooji, I would say to dive deep by listening to some of his guided meditations on his Youtube Channel, or just feel the energy you feel when listening to him. Profound teacher.
https://www.thewayhomefilm.com/
The film is 1 hour 10 minutes long, and is a solid introduction to his teachings.
FRANK YANG
A YOUTUBE JOURNEY
DOCUMENTING HIS ‘WAKE UP’ PATH
Frank Yang Youtube & Instagram:
Frank Yang is Taiwanese body-builder & fitness star who became obsessed with contemplative practice and filmed his meditative journey. He created a incredible fast speed mash-up video of the core moments of awakening experience until the moment of profound realization (linked to below). It doesn’t mean he is fully embodied in the other quadrants (as he admits happily), and it’s important to remember that as we think of ‘enlightenment.’ His raw expression and courage to express openly. Violin player. Piano. Wild tour de force. Moved through many wild extremes as a personality. Now he’s in his late 30’s. Has integrated so much. A wild character. He has led me to Rob Burbea’s work through his IG stories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t8KvdMtT4A&t=322s - Full Enlightenment Happening Live (1st time in Human History) - he recorded his process and created this raw mash-up video of his meditative journey. Inspiring.
https://www.youtube.com/c/frankyang - Youtube Channel
https://instagram.com/being_frank_yang?igshid=evmoazfdqtcv - Instagram - He shares tons of resources in his stories & posts. It’s how I found Rob Burbea & Kenneth Folk’s 3-speed transmission), and is very active)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6w6b11cxjp0z196/AAAW1jC7vu95SQo_eaJvD84Ea?dl=0 Frank Yang book list
VIPASSANA 10-DAY RETREAT
Vipassana 10-Day Retreat website:
An experience you can enter for yourself. It is offered freely on a donation-after basis. That speaks alot about the experience. They thrive world-wide solely on the authentic power & value of the practice. Vipassana, life changing.
As a practice (once you are back from retreat), I feel Vipassana body-scan & Anapana (the two practices taught in the retreat) can be combined with Rob Burbea’s work and/or Kenneth Folk’s 3-speed-transmission to greater effect of deepening into the spaces it’s trying to go.
In terms of the 10-day retreat, I see it as an unparalleled opportunity.
SEEING THAT FREES
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ROB BURBEA
Rob Burbea 'Seeing that Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising'
Free PDF: https://dokumen.pub/download/seeing-that-frees-paperbacknbsped-0992848911-9780992848910.html
Book on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-That-Frees-Meditations-Emptiness-ebook/dp/B00SI7PQD8
If you want to advance your meditation practice, I have alot to say about what this book ’Seeing that Frees' and Rob’s work can bring to deepening your meditative awareness and access to working through knots in the energy body, soothing yourself enough to get deeper into meditation. Very integrative material. Gives you alot to play with. I could say so much about Rob Burbea as a teacher. He died in 2020 of colon cancer and it’s a huge loss. I feel he is a spiritual prodigy in his teaching style. I feel he ushers in a Spirituality 3.0 in terms of how to give people a meditative practice that is truly adaptive to their body, and that they’re able to unlock the deeper insights much more rapidly as a result of more intuitive guidance and teaching style. So his teaching style alone is very rare.
I spent a few days downloading every dharma talk he has given that’s available online and organizing them into retreat folders so you can have audio to listen to while walking around, going on hikes, exercising, whatever. You can listen to these dharma talks and progress in different domains. He has a wide variety of teachings. Some to do with a kind of embodiment: soul-making as he calls it. Some to do with emptiness and deep enlightenment. Some to do with the cultivation of Jhanas / Samadhis / deep states of bliss. His teachings are really intuitive, helpful, pragmatic, and subtle.
Rob Burbea’s work has tremendously deepened my practice and gotten me through some serious blocks.
Rob Burbea Entire Dharma Talk Archive (458 talks organized into full retreat folders. Retreats date all the way from 2005 to 2020. Some retreats have 1-2 talks. Some retreats have as many as 36 talks. All contain deep very pragmatic useful & very customizable-to-your-journey dives into vital inner meditative terrains & distinctions):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qBTnvy8rI-14Bk4GWf3pgD5J3nGJRI0a
THE THREE SPEED TRANSMISSION
A PRAGMATIC, VERY SIMPLE, & POWERFUL FORMULATION
“The Three-Speed Transmission” unites three very profound types of WAKE UP practices: MINDFULNESS NOTING such as VIPASSANA & other similar practices, SELF-INQUIRY & INVESTIGATING THE ‘I’ SENSE, and ABIDING as the SELF (ala Mahamudra and Advaita, etc.)
This uniting concept of several traditions of practice was formulated by Kenneth Folk. He also developed an idea of contemplative fitness, which is shared in the final link.
Kenneth Folk: Three Speed Transmission … pragmatic simple enlightenment GOLD
https://kennethfolkdharma.com/2017/07/the-three-speed-transmission/
https://kennethfolkdharma.com/2018/02/what-is-the-three-speed-transmission/ -Article of how 'Three Speed Transmission' came about - background story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCV4MBuW3Y8 - Great 5-min explanation of Three Speed Transmission - Youtube video of Kenneth with a bandaid on his nose, Chinatown-style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnvwL6Hbr1c - Full deeper interview with Robert Wright - 1 hr exploring Kenneth’s overall view
https://eudoxos.github.io/cfitness/html/cfitness.html - Idea of contemplative fitness described in Introduction - great - then full online book by Kenneth
USING GUIDED MEDITATIONS AS ENERGETIC ACCELERATION
Guided meditations are so much more useful than I ever realized for meditation. If a single massive accelerating take-away happens for your meditation practice, it’s to piggy-back on the transmission energies from guided meditations of highly established/embodied beings.
PIGGY-BACKING ON ENERGY, ACCELERATING & DEEPENING YOUR MEDITATION PRACTICE PROFOUNDLY
Guided meditations are so much more useful than I ever realized for meditation. If a single massive accelerating take-away happens for your meditation practice, it’s to piggy-back on the transmission energies from guided meditations of highly established/embodied beings.
I even sometimes ignore guided meditations in the background, and do a different practice… Usually I will choose one whose guidance I want to embody, but even having a powerful one in the background becomes a useful energetic backdrop to piggyback on and ACCELERATE deep meditation tremendously.
Attribute-less Self talk - Bentinho Massaro https://youtu.be/9fpP8yiZjCQ
The above meditation. Its frequency is deep and although it’s a dialogue in an informal context of Bentinho with his friends, it carries a profound energetic guidance. Bentinho is a bit of a creep on a personality-level FYI (and I don’t really recommend learning much from him). It’s helpful to recognize that as Shinzen Young and others point out, realizing the emptiness of phenomena doesn’t correlate directly with moral development, so you can’t assume high levels of realization confer ethical or even intellectual development, as observed clearly in Osho, Amrit Desai (of Kripalu), Yogi Bhajan of Kundalini Yoga, and so many more.
A few other guided meditation resources:
https://youtu.be/c24JyHj7Jdo - Michael Taft - Boundaryless, Timeless Stillness
Michael Taft is an amazing geeky warm-souled teacher whose guided meditations are rooted in a solid powerful transmission. He has many varieties of guided meditations on his Youtube: metta loving-kindness meditations, mindfulness of different kinds, and non-dual paintings to name a few.
https://youtu.be/-AcO9bTtFEo - Michael Taft - Pointing Out Instructions
Most any Michael Taft meditation online will do - these are not particularly chosen - but they are all very potent and helpful.
Any other guided meditations you resonate with. Mooji has some great ones. Here is his Guided Meditation playlist.
But any/all resources on this front are very very very supportive to deepening practice. You get the sense of it.