C von Hassett: Author / Dzogchen Meditator / Damn Fine Chef / DJ C von

Sagewolf Interviews

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@enteringthemind
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The scene:
We are in the front garden of C von’s LA home smelling gardenia, lavender, sage, rosemary, roses, jasmine…Spring has sprung! And we are sitting under a gigantic bougainvillea tree covered in bright fuchsia leaves. While this sounds like a nature paradise, in true East Hollywood fashion, we are also 2 feet from a loud street and are visited by helicopters overhead. These two worlds describe C von in his life right now quite perfectly - loving and joyfully expressive with the faint whispers of a gone-bye era hard-edged life. Join us for all of it!
Highlights:
+ Highest passion: coming to know self
+ A mission that turned into a passion
+ Passion is now deeper, higher, broader
+ Meditation is a target, art and literature takes you in any direction
+ An origin of confusion, violence, and fear - growing up in LA in the 70’s
+ Demonic ghosts in his childhood house
+ Realigning the mind and heart can take 20-30 years
+ Re-calibrations from psychedelics, art, literature, relationships
+ Teachers that open doors in your life
+ “When the student is ready, the teacher arrives”
+ Every person is a teacher, a physical manifestation of energy
+ We need information to grow and change
+ If we know what we want, we receive what we need
+ English Literature teacher for High School and College
+ Father of two beautiful, intelligent, funny humans
+ Some books on meditations can be distractions
+ “Entering The Mind” is a great instruction manual
+ Meditation supersedes partying, easily
+ Finding meditation as a child studying nature
+ Not having a teacher but knowing something was missing
+ “The Black Elk Speaks” book gave early direction
+ Buddhism can become too dogmatic
+ Find your own wisdom mind - Dzogchen meditation practice
+ Living in three places - sort-of by choice
+ Being tenacious, obsessive, deep-diving - a double-edged sword
+ Training as a “warrior” as a response to an unsafe environment
+ Race wars in LA - fighting against a common enemy - the LAPD
+ Japanese martial arts - first dojo was with Chuck Norris
+ Learning how to defend and deflect
+ Grew up in a boxing family
+ Losing hostility when it becomes unnecessary
+ The community is interdependent, there is no self without
+ Meditation removed anxiety and depression
+ Getting out of your own way
+ People who see our best self help us see our best self
+ There’s literally nothing to worry about - not even death
+ Loving being alive on this planet
+ Saving each other from ourselves
+ This life is preparing us for our next life
+ The eternal self is watching us
+ Meditation is a constant recalibrating
A taste:
“I used to mediate to them. Sit in my little box here in LA. Watch the helicopter come through the space of my awareness and watch my awareness looking through the helicopter. […] Sit there and use the helicopter as part of my meditation practice - a mantra almost.”
Word habits:
“Amazing!”
“Beautiful!”
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