We are the Medicine with Meditation Teacher Scott Tusa

A State of Mind

Julian talks with long time meditator and Buddhist meditation teacher Scott Tusa

Learn more about Scott at https://scotttusa.com

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https://www.unicefusa.org

https://disasterphilanthropy.org

Topics in Chronological Order:

• 0:00 Introduction
• 4:29 Conversation with Scott
• Scott was a monk for 9 years
• Tsoknyi Rinpoche
• Returned his vows in 2017
• Differences between Ningma and Gelugpa Buddhist lineages
• The essence is the same according to Scott
• Keys to Buddhist teachings: Renunciation Mind, Bodhicitta & Emptiness
• Bodhicitta & Evolution
• Buddhism as a Subjective science
• Meaning of lineage
• Meaning of Renunciation Mind in the Buddhist teachings
• Renunciation as giving up clinging to an experience of reality that doesn't exist. Which is not saying Reality does not exist.
• How are Idols oppress us
• The importance of the Heart
• Different spiritual paths versus following one path
• Sancocha soup - all mixed up.
• Ayahuasca
• Psychedelics: we are the medicine.
• Nonduality: transcending circumstances.
• Ethics, Meditation and Wisdom.
• Ethics and Insight into the nature of mind.
• Downsides of social media, outrage & cancel culture
• Emptiness: Going Beyond Beliefs.
• There is only constructive miscommunication or unconscious miscommunnication
• Just Being.
• Engaging in the path to re-learn how to Be.
• Re-Awakening rather than Awakening.

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