224: Cheri Huber On the Impact of Our Mind on Our Direct Experience

<p><a href="http://oneyoufeed.net/support" target="_blank">Please Support The Show with a Donation</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Cheri Huber is the author of 20 books and has been a student of zen for 35 years. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Peace Center, both in California, where she and other monks teach workshops and hold retreats. She is also a truth telling, light hearted delight to listen to. In this interview, she talks all about what is going on in our mind and how we can better work with it to produce a better experience in life. Her wisdom is so practical and so powerful. See for yourself in this transformative episode.</p><p>Visit Bombas&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bombas.com/wolf" target="_blank">www.bombas.com/wolf</a>&nbsp;and enter offer&nbsp;WOLF at checkout for 20% off the most comfortable socks in the world</p><p><br></p><p>In This Interview, Cheri Huber and I Discuss...</p><ul><li>The Wolf Parable</li><li>Her book, <a href="https://amzn.to/2H8CwDU" target="_blank">I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about it</a></li><li>How the process IS the outcome</li><li>That now is the only moment there is</li><li>How the quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention</li><li>Everything comes into being, together</li><li>She doesn't believe that there's anything that ISN'T God</li><li>Our dualistic thinking</li><li>All of the ways to refer to the ego</li><li>The unique ability that humans have to experience themselves as other than life</li><li>The ego&nbsp;is a survival system</li><li>Believing we are not connected to life</li><li>Everything is a verb! A gerund</li><li>The illusion of being separate from life</li><li>My ego is the no to life's yes</li><li>Always asking what's lacking, what's missing, what's wrong keeps the ego as the center of the universe</li><li>How we are deeply conditioned for negativity</li><li>Awareness being able to watch the conditioned mind</li><li>I hear it in my head,