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 [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 2, Part 13 of 15 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: Anyway, the attitude cultivated in Vipassana meditation is equanimity. We are very conditioned for a resistance factor to come up real strongly, right away, because that’s the way we go through life. [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 2, Part 12 of 15 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Student: Could say more about moving away from pain, and trying to get pleasure? But I found, oh, with my ankle a little bit of a pop and I feel so much better now [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 2, Part 10 of 15 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
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CTT: We’ll assume that you already learned in concentrative meditation that you’ll be able to bring a little [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 2, Part 10 of 15 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: I want to move into Vipassana meditation now, I want to introduce you to this technique.
Student: Will we become enlightened?
CTT: That’s optional. It worked for the Buddha. Whether it will work for [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 2, Part 8 of 15 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Student: Any suggestions or counsel on the state change of my leg falling asleep constantly?
CTT: Well you can worry about how you’re probably going to die from it. (Laughter) But I think you [...]