On the Meditative Path (with Catherine McGee)

Into the Stream

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For this episode of Into the Stream I'm joined by Catherine McGee, an esteemed Insight Meditation teacher who has had a profound impact on my own practice when it all felt a bit bland, muddy, and robotic.
Catherine's gentle, soulful, and down-to-earth teaching inspired me to value qualities of the heart that I previously perceived as a bit far-fetched. Qualities such as soulfulness, devotion, richness, and beauty have all become surprisingly important to me because of Catherine's work and I'm deeply grateful to her for that.
Just a heads up, this episode is will be especially appreciated by those with extensive meditation practice - we use quite a lot of Buddhist lingo here. Catherine's wisdom really shines through here (and even shines through the intermittent audio quirks). We explore:

Her first (20-day) silent meditation retreat that kickstarted her path
Subtle practice pathologies in young idealistic meditators
The Diamond Approach and how to work skilfully with being an arse in daily life
Ways of relating to the body that hold meditators back
Her views on Awakening
And how to keep love for the path alive over multiple decades.

Catherine's Biography
Catherine has been teaching Insight Meditation at Gaia House and internationally since 1997. Her teaching emphasises working with perceptions of the body on the path of awakening and in the healing of the individual and collective crises of our times. She's an advisor to One Earth Sangha, a long term student of the Diamond Approach, and between 2014 and 2020 she collaborated with Rob Burbea in shaping and teaching a Soulmaking Dharma.
Some Resources
You can listen to recordings from Catherine's retreats freely available online. Here's two: Finding True Refuge in a Modern World and Abiding with a Heart Imbued with Love.

You can also listen to Catherine on other podcasts. Two episodes that are specifically good are Deconstructing Yourself's Soulmaking Dharma and Emerge's Soulmaking in Climate Collapse.

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The podcast's music is Good Morning by Bonaparte and Acid Pauli, who kindly gave permission for use.

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