Tyler Matthew: your true self

Tyler Matthew is one of many unpretentious, extraordinary people doing their part as friends along the path to spiritual awakening.

Right now, your true self, your absolute identity is fully here in the exact same way its fully here in deep sleep and the dream state and the awakened state…. You can learn to abide by it.

In this episode, we discuss self inquiry, letting go, earnestness, and other topics on spiritual awakening.

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Selected Links and Topics from this Episode:

• Having an existential crisis in his mid-twenties. Doing everything right, but still realizing that he wasn’t happy nor were the people around him.
• “The wound is where the light comes in.” ~Rumi
• Lester Levenson‘s The Sedona Method.
• Letting go. “If you’re try to let go, you’re not letting go.”
• The “honeymoon meditator phase” leading to a satori awakening.
• Earnestness on the spiritual path. It’s a huge component in getting wherever you want to go.
• The importance of focus.
• “Self-inquiry” as looking and seeing what is already present “and falling in love with doing that.”
• Meditation as “Being what I found myself to be.”
• Mike Conners and “Effortless Meditation” as a way to erode our tendency to want to control experience.
• “I became more interested in what’s happening at point A rather than trying to get to point B.”
• “Sobering up from experience.” ~Adyashanti
• “It’s fine to try to abide as the ‘I Am’ but sometimes that anger is really overpowering, or there’s a deep feeling of shame.”
• “Closer than Close was just dynamite.” [shameless plug]
• The Ribhu Gita. Hear Chapter 26 recited.
• What does it mean that “there were never any thoughts?”
• Can you practice letting go? “You can practice surrender. You can’t make it happen.”
• Franklyn Merrell-Wolff and Bernadette Roberts, if you’re an analytical oriented person “they are as good as you’re going to find.”
• Being “in this for the long haul.”
• The grief and grit of the spiritual path.
• “We live in a time of a spiritual buffet. It’s like there are too many cooks in the kitchen.”
• “Norio’s interview was really helpful to me.”
• Tyler Matthew’s book recommendation: The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham.
• Tyler Matthew’s film recommendation: Groundhog Day with Bill Murray
• Tyler doesn’t have a website and is not on social media. You might find him online at the Pittsburgh Self-Inquiry Group, or the Lynchburg, VA local TAT group.
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