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 Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Transcript of this interview Interview recorded 10/23/2015 at the Science and Nonduality Conference. Second BatGap interview with Dorothy Hunt. 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