Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 8 of 17 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Student: You can only handle as much pleasure as you can pain.
CTT: Sounds like a cool idea. I have no idea whether it’s true.
Student: But I mean, it seems like if you start trying to [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 7 of 17 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 about, say, personality. We [...]
My recent interview on the Buddhist Geeks web radio show (www.buddhistgeeks.com), noting scientific evidence for a Buddhist idea like reincarnation, has resulted in some spirited comments on their website. I think my response to these, dealing with the nature of science and whether there is really scientific evidence for something like reincarnation or whether [...]
Continue reading about Buddhism, Reincarnation, Science, Parapsychology
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 5 of 17 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
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 knowledge and being. For me, the words are [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 3 of 17 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: What else did people experience this week?
Student: I thought it was easy to verbalize my sensations during the meditation, versus having my eyes closed. So verbalizing for me was easier to track the [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 18 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Student: So what’s the reason why you enlighten people?
CTT: It’s a friendship act. That’s all.
Student: Yes. Why would an enlightened person not say that they were enlightened? Because you keep being humble, and [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 17 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: But let’s throw in one more factor here that’s important, especially since so many of us are going to become clinicians, and that’s projection and transference reactions. Every one of us has [...]
Continue reading about Transference and countertransference, or How I came to love my teacher
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 16 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Student: I have a question that I’ve been wondering about. Have you actually met anybody personally that you would think of as an enlightened being, or…?
Student: Or admitted to being enlightened?
Student: Admitted is one thing. [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 13 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
[Note my postings may be irregular for the next few weeks as I'm going camping...]
Student: So what is the hallmark of a good spiritual teacher?
CTT: Wow!
Student: Sitting full lotus for three years!
Student: With a bottle of whiskey [...]