Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: Our most welcome and radiant guest today, Peter Fenner, is
a leader in the adaptation and transmission of Asian nondual
wisdom worldwide. He is a pioneer in the development of
nondual therapy and creator of the nine-month Radiant Mind
Course and the nondual teacher therapist training. He was a
celibate monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for nine years and
has a PhD in the philosophical psychology of Mahayana
Buddhism. And I hope I don't butcher any of these terms. Over a
period of 38 years Peter has distilled the essence of traditions like
Zen, Dzogchen and the Buddhist Middle Way, and adapted them
to suit our post-modern culture.
Peter teaches in North America, Europe, Israel, and Australia and
has presented his work at leading universities and institutions
including Columbia, Stanford, CIIS and Naropa. His books
include Radiant Mind: Awakening Unconditional Awareness,
The Edge of Uncertainty: Dilemmas on the Buddhist Path; and
The Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy. Peter
is also the Director of Education of Timeless Wisdom at
www.wisdom.org . Wow [Laughs].
Yes, so usually I like to say a few things that I've learned about our
guest before we launch into our interview. So the Wizard came
back to the room and called you the Rock, and it's true you have an
amazing presence. And, each of the guests that we have on our
show have a unique and special talent, Puppetji uses humor for
example to help people to have a good time with the Truth, and
Rupert is a master at the present moment of existence, and we've
had relationship experts like Gina and Nirmala.
So Peter, of all those we've met thus far, I feel you're unequalled in
your capacity to demystify the mysterious changes that take place
in a person who's called upon to extricate him/herself from the
suffering of conditioned awareness, what we might call ordinary
consciousness so that they might abide more consistently in
unconditioned awareness. I think that's your great skill.
PETER FENNER: Okay, thank you.
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