I have been reading Jack Kornfield's book about spirituality and Buddhism A Path With Heart. As a short summary of Part 1: The Fundamentals, he starts with basic questions. What is your goal? He suggests a path with heart is the goal of spiritual practice. Are we in touch with our fundamental goodness? Are we … Continue reading Commonalities of Buddhism & Weightlifting
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The Top Idea In Your Mind
"I think most people have one top idea in their mind at any given time. That's the idea their thoughts will drift toward when they're allowed to drift freely. And this idea will thus tend to get all the benefit of that type of thinking, while others are starved of it. Which means it's a … Continue reading The Top Idea In Your Mind
Meditation Without Meditating
"Over the past several decades, studies examining the potential for meditation to curb mental anguish and increase wellbeing have yielded promising, if complicated, results. For patients, complications can arise when meditation is marketed as a ‘happy pill, with no side effects’. This commodification and oversimplification is at the root of a conundrum for Jay Sanguinetti … Continue reading Meditation Without Meditating
Mind Made Shadows
"All experience is preceded by mind, Led by mind, Made by mind. Speak or act with a peaceful mind, And happiness follows Like a never-departing shadow." —The Dhammapada
Brain.fm
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Amazon.com: Out of Your Mind (Audible Audio Edition)
"In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and self-described spiritual entertainer was responsible for igniting the passion of countless wisdom seekers to the spiritual and philosophical delights … Continue reading Amazon.com: Out of Your Mind (Audible Audio Edition)
Rearranging Our Minds
Open Question: Should we make an effort to change our minds in some fundamental way? And if so, how? There are a number of stories of people suffering a traumatic brain injury that results in the brain being rearranged in a way that gives them a new ability. Generally, this involves some skill with art, … Continue reading Rearranging Our Minds
Riccardo Manzotti & The Spread Mind Hypothesis
https://vimeo.com/123199950 An hour long presentation on the "Spread Mind Hypothesis," or that consciousness isn't located in our head but in the objects in the physical world. I haven't listened to this presentation yet, but it seems like an attempt to reformulate materialism to integrate our current understanding of forces like gravity into a physicalist theory … Continue reading Riccardo Manzotti & The Spread Mind Hypothesis
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
"This is the best scientific book written for non-specialists that I have ever read. You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of, and you will be inspired, even if you find some of it hard to accept." —Henry Marsh,"Robert Sapolsky’s Behave is a tour de force of … Continue reading Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
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