Upbuild Enneagram Foundations Podcast Series

Summing Up the Series

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Episode Description

In this final episode of the Enneagram Foundations series, we explore how to use the Enneagram in our everyday lives in order to make sure that it has the profound impact on us that it is capable of having. We also discuss how the Enneagram can only take us so far and how a spiritual practice is needed to help us go beyond the limits of our personality. 

Podcast Hosts: Rasanath Das and Hari Prasada Das

Highlights

  • [1:30] The importance of applying the Enneagram to our personal lives

  • [2:30] Making a list each day of how we show up in the Controlling Level of Consciousness

  • [3:30] Charity begins at home

  • [3:30] Enneagram Deep Dives

  • [4:30] Using the Enneagram to get free from the ego

  • [6:00] Using the Enneagram to serve others by understanding and empathizing with them

  • [7:00] The Enneagram shows us the suffering that each of the Types is experiencing

  • [7:30] The importance of spiritual practice in going beyond the limits of your personality

  • [11:00] What we stand to gain from coming in touch with the real self – freedom from suffering and an unconditional love

  • [12:30] Next steps: intimately getting to know your Type and Wing and doing the specific practice for your type

  • [18:30] Removing your mask

  • [20:30] Consciousness is everything

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About the podcast: Two former monks, a former startup founder and CEO, and a former equity derivatives trader dive into how to be our best selves, free from the ego. Our egos are the identities we create for ourselves and wish the world to validate, but when we are not seen as we want to be, we feel insecure. This podcast lives at the intersection of leadership and spirituality. It will help you understand your ego and shed light on your inner world so that you can act with greater clarity, compassion, and the freedom to be your best self.