320. Dorothy Hunt

Dorothy Hunt serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching at the request of Adyashanti.  She is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy and has practiced psychotherapy since 1967. She is the author of Leaves from Moon Mountain, Only This!, and Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness. A contributing author to The Sacred Mirror, and Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Dorothy is also a featured spiritual teacher in the book, Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom: The Feminine Face of Awakening.

Dorothy has a long and deep connection to the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and the path of Self-Inquiry, as well as the nondual teachings of Zen, Advaita, and the Christian mystics.  In meeting Adyashanti, she was invited beyond identification with either the absolute or relative, finding freedom in what is awake in each of us regardless of the changing faces of experience. Dorothy offers satsang, retreats, and private meetings in the San Francisco Bay area and elsewhere by invitation.

For more information, visit www.dorothyhunt.org

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Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded 10/23/2015 at the Science and Nonduality Conference.

Second BatGap interview with Dorothy Hunt.

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to the Science and Non-Duality Conference
• 00:02:00 – The Personal Journey to Spiritual Development
• 00:03:46 – Early Exploration of Spiritual Experiences
• 00:05:29 – Self Inquiry and the Unknown
• 00:07:01 – The Shift in Identity
• 00:08:44 – Shifting Perspectives on Motherhood
• 00:10:36 – Awakening in the Relative World
• 00:12:17 – Awakening of the Heart and Hara
• 00:14:07 – The Deepening of Experience
• 00:15:55 – Levels of Awakening and Violence Reduction
• 00:17:47 – Liberation from Self Judgment
• 00:21:11 – Awakening to True Nature
• 00:22:45 – The Awakening Experience
• 00:24:23 – The Ease of House Cleaning Post-Awakening
• 00:26:03 – The Vulnerability of Openness
• 00:27:32 – Returning to Zero
• 00:29:16 – The Misidentification of Consciousness
• 00:30:48 – The Vaster Intelligence behind our Awakening
• 00:32:40 – Experiential Knowledge and the Divine Play
• 00:34:16 – The Dark Face of the Mystery
• 00:35:57 – The Mystery of Life
• 00:37:38 – Adapting to Different Realities
• 00:39:25 – The Experience of Time and Space
• 00:41:19 – Transformations and Separations in Life
• 00:42:58 – The Deepest Desire of the Heart
• 00:44:34 – The Beauty of Nature
• 00:46:06 – Poetry and Deep Desires
• 00:48:25 – Exploring Deeply Held Desires
• 00:50:05 – Embracing Our Inner Experience
• 00:51:48 – Interviews at Gamescom

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