Dr. Charles Tart Mindfulness Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 6 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: Now this point you bring up about state of being is really a very important one, and it’s very hard to talk about adequately. We can talk […]
Dr. Charles Tart Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness Class, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 5 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. Student: In the New Age-y interpretation they talk about, “Oh yeah, you need to stop rushing around doing and start being.” And then, well, what does that mean? […]
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Many times in my life I’ve been presented with some useful truth – and I don’t get it. But if it’s presented to me several times, and/or in several different forms, I may finally understand. Here I’m thinking about the idea, common to all spiritual traditions I know of, that there is something badly wrong […]
Dr. Charles Tart Mindfulness Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 4 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. What else happened? Student: I don’t want to be too much in my head, but what came up for me while you were talking was the difference between […]
Recently a reader submitted a comment that just gave a URL and a comment that I should see this. Since many viruses and scams are sent around this way, and I do not have time to check them out, I always delete any submitted comments or emails that are like this. So if you have […]
At one of the small group meetings I was at last week while on a retreat on the Dzogchen tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism, a woman sitting beside me asked one of the lamas something like whether there was any dancing in Buddhism, particularly any dynamic, moving practices with a strong physical aspect, like dancing, to […]
Continue reading about Buddhists Don’t Dance – At Least Not the Ones I Know…
My wife Judy and I have just completed a 6-day retreat on Dzogchen approaches to liberation with lama Tsoknyi Rinpoche, held at Mt. Madonna Conference Center. Now it’s a couple of days of camping in a redwood park to cool down, before jumping fully back into ordinary life, but I’ve been reflecting a lot and […]