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In this article, I am going to review Dr. Philippe Goldin’s Google Talk from March 1, 2008. I have already posted the video as Meditation Practices: How Do They Affect The Brain? My purpose in this article is to extract one of the slides from the video and expand on it from the point of view [...]
This week’s Words of Wisdom chosen by Lama Surya Das is about the movie, Lincoln. The movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Jackie Earle Haley, Tommy Lee Jones, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and was directed by Steven Spielberg. I’ve heard that Sally Field gained a lot of weight to play the part of Mrs. Lincoln. Lincoln’s struggle to [...]
This is one of the most beautiful videos on this site! Most of the images are time elapsed photographs of beautiful flowers. You see the flowers opening up and closing. You see the dandelion seeds floating around the field. You see flowers blooming and seeds flying through the air. How beautiful! Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh [...]
This video came to me from a good friend, Bhikku Samahita, a monk in Sri Lanka. Every day, he send me emails on Buddhist topics. The speaker in this Ted Talk is Dr. Thomas Metzinger, a German philosopher and cognitive scientist. He talks about the self-model theory of subjectivity and demonstrates that there is no self. [...]
This Google Talk by Dr. Philippe Goldin of Stanford University is titled, “Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation.” Dr. Goldin spent six years in India and Nepal studying meditation and languages. In his talk, he examined the effect of mindfulness meditation practice on brain function. He listed three basic types of meditation: concentration, analytic and emptiness. The [...]
Have you ever heard the word, eudaimonia? I hadn’t heard the word until I listened to Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama for about the third time. During this summer, I am making my way through the 13 tapes of the recording of the book by Daniel Goleman. When Owen Flanagan, a [...]
The Heart Sutra is one of the most important teachings in Japanese Buddhism. It is chanted several times a day in a rhythmical monotone. Understanding the essence of the Heart Sutra leads to great wisdom. The subject of this video is great mantra which is chanted at the end of the Heart Sutra. Gate gate [...]
Thrive is a two hour movie that has been reviewed on Best Meditation Videos. The movie demonstrates that we all have what it takes to thrive rather than merely survive. We All Have What It Takes To Thrive This article presents an expansion of three of the themes presented in the movie: interbeing or interconnectedness [...]
Being stressed out can cause real problems in your professional life as well as your personal life. Stress can influence you health in harmful ways. Studies at Carnegie Mellon University and other institutions have shown that stress can be related to hair loss, depression and even cardiovascular disease. Researchers are claiming that stress can be [...]
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