This year I am honored to be serving as President of ISSSEEM, the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. As part of promoting ISSSEEM’s upcoming June conference (see www.issseem.org) and stimulating intelligent reflection about consciousness, subtle energies, parapsychology, and science and spirituality in general, I am, with ISSSEEM’s aid, launching [...]
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Recently I received an email from a scholar who will be reviewing my The End of Materialism book for a journal. He noted that:
In the book you say: “….genuine science [shows] that a wide variety of traditional religious views about reality are factually wrong; they just don’t stand up to empirical tests.” Can you [...]
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I’ve just come back from a 10-day retreat in the Sierra with Sogyal Rinpoche, very deep.
One of the things Rinpoche frequently mentions is how the Buddha summed up all his teaching in just three lines. My memory is not the best, but it’s something like to end our suffering
Do absolutely no harmful [...]
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Anonymous comments:
> In Buddhism, waking up might be described as the cessation of suffering because of the cessation of desire (ie ceasing of attachments and aversions). Do your experiences fit that description, ceasing to suffer, letting go of attachments and aversions?<
I am not comfortable with the word “cessation,” it’s so absolute. As long [...]
Several of you have pointed out that a person doesn’t have to have “spiritual” reasons for being nice to others, and that’s true.
[I'm putting quotes around “spiritual” to remind us it's a tricky word, we'll have to try to make clearer one of these days]
So let me stir the pot a little as [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 3, Part 3 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Student: I’ve been having really lucid dreams as well. It’s really been helping my dream states. I mean, last night was sweet. I was playing bike polo the whole night.
(Laughter) [...]
My friend, colleague, and meditation teacher extraordinaire, Shinzen Young, after paraphrasing a long comment and question of mine that some in the back couldn’t hear, kidded me, in our group process session this morning, that I would be writing an article about my experience next week. Since I feel I need a break from 10 [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 3, Part 1 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
(Lively discussions going on before class)
CTT: All right. Steady. Okay.
There are some times, like this moment when I feel rather scattered, that I feel very hypocritical in teaching the mindfulness course. [...]
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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 2, Part 15 of 15 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Student: If Buddha said that this was the way to enlightenment to him, then why do these different branches of Buddhism have all these crazy different practices that they’ve got? Like Tibetan Buddhism, [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 2, Part 14 of 15 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: Any other difficulties in doing the Vipassana method or unclarity about how you actually do this? Because I am going to ask you to do a couple of 10 minute sessions each [...]