Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 7 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Student: I just want to tell you to go back to the broader conversation about thought and thinking. In the Buddhist context, as well as in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction version of [...]
I’m engaged in some discussion with other parapsychologists about a spiritual outlook vs a materialistic one, and related topics. Here is an example of what I’m thinking about – without having come to a nice conclusion. If you find it stimulating, maybe you can tell me where I should end up!
Identity, Self, Karma, Buddhism, Survival [...]
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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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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 5 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: Comments on the comments on your papers, or things you want to bring up?
Student: I was going to say that last year I took some time off. When I came back here one of [...]
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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 4 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: This goes back to an idea of Gurdjieff’s that I think is worth talking about, and that’s the idea of the food of impressions. Have you come across that in Ouspensky yet? [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 3 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Student: I have a question about when you were talking about when your mind is running, or your imagination is running away or running rampant.
CTT: Who was talking about that?
Student: I think you were.
CTT: I was? [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 2 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: So take a minute to look at the comments on your paper. You might not have a response to them. You might. It might also remind you of something that [...]
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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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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 2 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Sorry this one is a little late in going up, I’ve been on a 10-day meditation retreat, pretty heavy…..
CTT: So we’re trying to be bodily present in the here and now. I’ll give [...]
[Sorry this one has been a little slow in being posted. I was on a 10-day retreat that was pretty intense....]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 2 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: So we’re trying to be bodily present in the here and now. [...]