Tag: meditation
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I’ll see you on the other side of sesshin.
Well Im about to go off grid for a week. I will be attending the yearly sesshin (an intensive 7 day meditation retreat. Sesshin literally means: touching the heart-mind) with the Black Mountain Zen group. The retreat is being held at a beautiful location beside Lake George just outside of Canberra. I’m all packed for…
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Podcast: Gratitude.
Another deep dive podcast from the Huberman Lab exploring the empiric, evidence based benefits of developing your own gratitude practice. The regular activity of ‘counting your blessings’ or writing down a list of things you are grateful for in your life is now fairly well recognised as a wellness tool. But it turns out the…
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Mindfulness and Zen
The continuing public interest in meditation has led to a huge marketing growth industry supporting mindfulness (estimated $1 Billion industry in US alone) and secular mediation teaching through apps (eg Sam Harris Waking Up app), online guided meditations, corporate workshops and even colouring books. Mindfulness practice may indeed be a useful tool to help individuals…
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Consciousness and the medical profession.
In a short editorial article for the journal of wellness, Dr Anoop Kumar explores the topic of consciousness as it is generally held in the medical profession. That is… a product of the interactions of material elements ( eg neurons, the brain etc). Dr Anoop writes: At first glance, the assumption of the primacy of matter may…
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Mind at large.
Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting…
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The Hero’s Journey.
So this movie serendipitously arose in my feed today. At first, I was going to skim right past it, pretty much because I saw the name Deepak Chopra whom I find slightly on the spiritually sketchy side….but for some reason felt compelled to take a look at it despite my biases. And you know what….it…
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A Dutch study on NDE.
A Near-Death Experience (NDE) is a form of non-ordinary experience that can be summarised as: “the reported memory of a range of impressions during a special state of consciousness, including a number of special and universal reported elements such as an out-of-body experience, pleasant feelings, seeing a tunnel, a light, deceased relatives, a life review,…
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Interconnection.
In order to see the intertwined nature of life, you have to incline your mind toward living from the principle of interconnection. That means self-centered demands need to be examined; opinions questioned; aversive responses countered; egoic images investigated; and mental projections reinterpreted. Start slowly and first get a sense of how distant your mind is…
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