Bruce Tift on Freedom, Open Mind, Psychotherapy, Buddhism, and Neurosis

Bruce Tift is a licensed Psychotherapist and the author of Already Free: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation. He is a long-time practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism and was a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Bruce's website: https://www.brucetift.com/ Join the Patreon:   / mu_podcast   Donations: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/lucas... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1knI... ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Twitter:   / lucasfmperry   Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:51 What is freedom? 4:21 What is conscious participation in open awareness? 6:29 Is this the fruitional view? 8:51 The western therapeutic perspective of healing core wounds 11:01 How do the fruitonal view and the developmental view relate? 14:15 Committing to experience sense of problem without trying to resolve it 18:55 The path of Vajrayana Buddhism 29:27 Belief is a substitute for groundlessness 34:05 I give myself permission to never experience what I most want in life 37:56 What is non-divided reality? 43:22 Freedom is not synonymous with positive feelings 47:30 Neurosis is always a substitute for experiential intensity 51:20 Falling through the air with no parachute 52:10 Challenging our identification with hope 55:02 Bruce’s gradual shift towards freedom 57:44 Being profoundly limited 1:02:47 Asking if what you most want is available right now 1:04:30 One taste 1:05:40 Impermanence and dependent origination 1:10:11 Enlightenment 1:13:09 Trying to experience no-self can be motivated by fundamental aggression to experience 1:14:40 Maintaining a center through problem maintaining 1:18:37 The function of neurosis 1:25:44 What’s fundamentally disturbing about our experience? 1:32:48 How does groundlessness fit into freedom and nirvana? 1:34:15 Do we know anything? 1:38:47 What does it mean to be “Already Free?” 1:43:05 Neurosis is a clever way to pretend to ourselves we’re addressing our life while guaranteeing nothing happens 1:46:50 What’s always available? 1:47:47 Final words from Bruce 1:50:12 Outro