Neil McKinlay
Neil McKinlay is a Senior Teacher within the Dharma Ocean Buddhist lineage.
INTERVIEW TOPIC:
LONELINESS AS ESTRANGEMENT FROM THE VITALITY AND WISDOM OF IMMEDIATE EXPERIENCE
In this interview, Buddhist teacher Neil McKinlay says that the body holds the fullness of our relationship with everything. He suggests that the modern epidemic of loneliness expresses our speedy, heady, disembodied estrangement from our immediate experience. He shares a practice that supports slowing down, connecting with the body and the earth, and bringing nourishing attention within, in order to begin to bridge the gap that gives rise to loneliness.
LINKS:
Website: neilmckinlay.com
BIO:
For twenty years, Neil McKinlay has trained with Reggie Ray, Spiritual Director of the Dharma Ocean Foundation and one of today’s foremost meditation teachers. In addition to daily practice and study, this tutelage has seen Neil spend more than a year in group retreat, receiving the tradition of Reggie’s own teacher, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in a direct and personal way.
Throughout this span, Neil has also been a parent and partner, author and swim coach. Affirming the everyday character of true spirituality, each of these roles has been folded into his training and development. This fact lends all Neil’s work an immediacy that encourages us to discover how these teachings relate to our own lives.
Now a Senior Teacher in the Dharma Ocean lineage, Neil continues his apprenticeship by helping others access this tradition in a wide range of contexts. These include classes and workshops throughout the Pacific Northwest, and Dharma Ocean’s annual Sutrayana Study and Practice Intensive - an online program with international participation.
This video is one of 16 interviews comprising the Transforming Loneliness summit, which was curated and hosted by Laura Parker, MFT in early 2019. To view the other interviews in the series, please register here if you haven’t already.
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