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	Fundamental Shift
	Bringing our awareness to some small things can bring a fundamental shift in awareness and understanding. This shift can deeply transform our maps of the world, and bring deep meaning to our lives. © ©Rob Scott
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The Secret Formula That Makes You Procrastinate

Many people who procrastinate have tons and tons of potential. Are you one of those people? Do you know that you could do so much more if you only found a way to apply yourself? Do you ever start things, and sometimes even get a lot done, only to drop the project [...]

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:02:31 +0000

Pangea Day - The Most Poorly Publicized Wonderful Thing EVER!

The idea of nations is dying. Or at least it should be… The lines we paint on our planet to form nations cause some of the deepest rifts in our humanity. I’ve done a lot of talking about the importance of each of us developing a world view perspective. This is why I’m [...]

Mon, 12 May 2008 14:26:16 +0000

Implementing Spiritual Teachings

What does it mean to be spiritual today? In this podcast Rob Scott and Kerri Kannan discuss how to implement spiritual teachings in a down to earth and realistic way. This interview is from a show that Kerri runs called World Awakened on Blog Talk Radio. Topics covered include: Beginning to Work [...]

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:05:52 +0000

New website, new verve!

Play the video (audio really) on the right and you’ll hear Eric B and Rakim’s lyrics: “It’s been a long time, I shouldn’t have left you… Without a strong rhyme to step to…” So in that spirit, I’m sorry I didn’t leave a strong rhyme to step to. Some of you have written asking where [...]

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:38:03 +0000

Rob Scott Interviewed on Philly Fitness and Health Podcast

A good friend of mine, Kimberly Garrison interviewed me for the Philly Fitness and Health Podcast last week. The Daily News owns the show and allowed me to post the show here in it’s entirety. This tells a little of my personal story and discusses finding higher function and overcoming obstacles. Show music: Walk Away by [...]

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:12:00 +0000

A Bit About Relationships

This talk is about being in relationships with others. It describes mistakes we make that end up leaving us hurt and confused. It also describes successful relationships and what we should strive for when we come together. Often when we enjoy being with others what we’re enjoying is the presence that arises. Being with someone can [...]

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:13:00 +0000

Big Things From Little Changes

Why is it so hard to make big changes in our lives? We all seem to want things to be different than they are. We’d like to lose weight, make more money, be more organized, eat better. In this talk I point out a couple of ways to help bring lasting change. One [...]

Tue, 15 May 2007 14:46:00 +0000

Do You Have A Practice

This talk is meant to suggest the importance of a regular meditation practice. The pull of the world, and the normal distractions and natural egoic self builders don’t remind us that we need to see that there is more than thought. There is experience. We can exist without our minds running all [...]

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:25:00 +0000

A Rainy Day in Philadelphia

Something a little different today. No talking. Just watching. What do the faces say to you? Where do our minds go as we walk through this life? How many of us are really here, and when are we most here? There’s the pigeon, and the playing. The begging, and the pain… The energy underneath it all. There’ll [...]

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:43:00 +0000

Looking Through Other Peoples Eyes

Many talks I’ve given have been about the perspective shift of being able to look through other people’s eyes. And while this is a deeply important skill to develop to inform ourselves and to evolve, if not done from a place of health, it can lead to enabling co-dependent behavior. Healthy perspective shifting includes: Understanding that someone [...]

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:49:00 +0000

Introduction to States and Stages

This talk is an introduction to states and stages of consciousness. States of consciousness are our now experience, and stages of consciousness deal with the growth of self along many lines of development in time. In this talk I want to explain the importance of each of these perspectives of consciousness and begin [...]

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:48:00 +0000

Learning to be Detached

I was recently having a discussion with a good friend of mine. He mentioned that people who have had trauma and have learned to detach to protect themselves would make great Buddhists. They may have spent their lives not attaching to things because things or events had hurt them in the past. [...]

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:30:00 +0000

Do We Change The World Or Accept It

Surrendering to the moment is a very important teaching. Learning to accept what is, is one of the fundamentals of growing spiritually. So if acceptance is fundamental to this teaching, then why do all these teachers want to change what is? Why are they unable or unwilling to accept the world in [...]

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:09:00 +0000

Fearlessly Feeling Fear

A teenage boy just heard that Tommy wants to fight him in the schoolyard. He feels fear, but it’s not OK to feel fear. He’s supposed to be a man. He’s supposed to be tough. Or at least that’s what his belief system is telling him. A woman in college was raised Christian and believes we [...]

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:41:00 +0000

From Clutter to Clarity

External clutter is linked to your internal state of mind. Ownership of things is part of what the self is trying to accomplish. It feels bigger and more important when it has more. Because of this, we tend to let things define us. This is one of the problems of finding true happiness. Things decay. Nothing [...]

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:55:00 +0000

Nested Duality

What is nested duality? This talk begins to discuss the play of opposites. I talk about the importance of relating in new ways to good and bad. Ultimately this talk is trying to convey the error of nested duality which is when we make the non-dual experience something good. As we look [...]

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:51:00 +0000

Mastering Perspectives

This talk is about mastering perspectives. It assumes that someone capable of seeing more perspectives is better informed, and more able to act appropriately, happily, and well. There are many perspectives to any situation. Every moment there is your point of view, someone else’s point of view, and third person perspective as well. [...]

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:37:00 +0000

The Problem With Self Protection

Our self is more than partially defined by the assumptions and beliefs we hold about the world. Our emotions arise as that self rubs up against it’s edges. Emotions often tell us when our boundaries, or self, have been compromised. There is no doubt that we need to work on our understanding [...]

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:50:00 +0000

Introduction to Transparency

When something is transparent it is able to be seen through. In this talk I make an effort to show the link between transparency and awareness, making the assumption that awareness is healthy. Transparency is an idea that can be applied to any system to allow that system to behave healthily and naturally. [...]

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:46:00 +0000

We May Need To Kill Faith

How can we make faith make sense? So many of us are lost in rational minds. Rational minds that are right in the external sense of “right”, but they lack the inner connection to being. Faith is something that often sounds too “religious”. But faith may end up being important, but [...]

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:09:00 +0000

Dive In or Drop It

This talk is inspired by the question: In meditation, do we dive into frustration when it arises or do we drop it? I use this question to do an overview of meditation, and then answer at the end. Meditation is really about state management. We are trying to foster a better state of [...]

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:26:00 +0000

Learn To Surrender

Surrender means to give oneself over to something. The type of surrender I’m discussing in this talk is not a sign of weakness, in fact, it might be the greatest sign of strength. The ego doesn’t usually like to hear about giving in or surrendering, but one of the greatest teachings we can [...]

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:17:00 +0000

Goals That Make Us Happy

This show references an article in American Psychologist titled “Mental Balance and Well-Being - Building Bridges Between Buddhism and Western Psychology”. The idea of this talk is that goals, in and of themselves, are not bad things; but that choosing goals wisely is very important. When a sense of dissatisfaction is our reality [...]

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:49:00 +0000

Realizing We Have Enough

It makes sense that people who don’t have much feel a sense of lack. It doesn’t make as much sense that people who have tons of stuff, lots of money and means, also feel lack. One point of this talk is that the sense of external lack is driven by an internal lack. [...]

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:30:00 +0000

Informed Morality

This talk is about how non-dual experience can inform our morality. It was inspired by a magazine article that painted non-duality as morally irresponsible. Non-duality is not irresponsible. In fact, it can deeply inform our morality. What is morality? Morality defines and distinguishes between right and wrong. Our own history [...]

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:49:00 +0000

Means to an End

In this podcast we have a fist fight at a gun show. Two men, both deeply interested in safety, take very different stances on how to achieve that goal. One, having been mugged and beaten before feels as though having a gun will offer him safety. The other man, losing his son [...]

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:04:00 +0000

Connecting to the Vine

How do we remember what to do when we feel lost in our daily lives? Metaphor can be a great teaching tool to anchor ideas into our reality. “Connecting to the vine” is a great way to describe connection to oneness. What happens when a leaf gets cut away from a vine? It [...]

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:16:00 +0000

Shining Light on the Shadow

Part of evolving as a human being, and part of the teaching that I’m trying to promote, is about bringing awareness to all the aspects of our lives. One of the big accomplishments in psychology has been identifying and naming what’s been called the shadow. To understand the shadow we’ll try to describe [...]

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:24:00 +0000

Turning Subject Into Object

Turning subject into object is both a concept and a practice. In this talk I discuss the difference between inner and outer experience and how that relates to subjective and objective experience. We need to define perspective - subjective experience is what I identify as “me”. Objects exist within my awareness, but [...]

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:07:00 +0000

A New Kind of Judgement

There are two types of judgement or choice, and it is a mistake to make either of them bad. In this talk I will describe the two kinds of choice, introducing a new kind of judgement. Many people in the spiritual community condemn judgement. They’ve had experiences where they saw the freedom in [...]

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:55:00 +0000

Honoring Imbalance

In this show I discuss honoring imbalance. Many people (including myself) critique the world and describe the need for “balance” (listen to my last show, I use that very term). This talk discusses three ideas: The first idea is that everything is in a state of achieving balance. Every action has an equal [...]

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:45:00 +0000

Getting to the Beauty

This talk is really an exercise looking at the split between internal/external, and thinking/experiencing. I discuss the words below and ask you to identify with each word as I do. thinking experiencing form feeling outer inner external internal different similar motion stillness time now attachment freedom expectation actual them us you we disconnect awareness First we go one by one down the rows identifying with each side. Then we look at the left column, and identifying with all [...]

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:12:00 +0000

This Path is Not Easy

Everyone listening to a podcast like this is trying to better themselves. I want to commend all of you for trying to do that. This work is difficult, and not enough teachers say that’s the case. Many sell this path as an easy fix for people. It can often be very [...]

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:03:00 +0000