Dr. Charles Tart Mindfulness Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 5, Part 1 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: Any kind of habit you can set up at the early learning stages of becoming more mindful is a good habit. Do watch for the point where [...]
Continue reading about Consciousness Dynamics, Living in Illusion
All of you know one of my main goals in life is to help genuine science and genuine spirituality interact in ways so each helps the other. An interesting aspect arose in discussion with colleagues recently, that I wrote my friend Shinzen Young, meditation teacher, about. Some of you might find this interesting, it’s about [...]
Continue reading about Sutta to the Kalamas: Mind Opening or Mind-Manipulating?
Dr. Charles Tart Mindfulness Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 13 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. Student: I was thinking about something. I guess it actually ties in all the stuff we’ve been talking about in states of being, and I have an interesting [...]
A few days ago I had the good fortune to attend a workshop by noted Buddhist scholar Steven Goodman, a professor of Asian Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Mixed in with excellent overviews of Buddhism’s view of the human condition (unenlightened and full of suffering!) were questions and ideas [...]
Continue reading about Personality, Buddhism, Enlightenment, Attraction, Aversion, Ignorance
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 [...]
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 are at a 10-day Tibetan Buddhist retreat in San Diego this week (November 26 through December 6, 2010), run by Lama Sogyal Rinpoche and his Rigpa Fellowship organization. We’ve been coming to these retreats for more than 20 years, and I have enormous respect for Rinpoche’s knowledge and compassion. But [...]
Mindfulness in Life One of the discussion lists I’m on is the Forge Guild, and one of the members wondered if trying to be mindful in life is practical, can it happen for more than moments. The question wasn’t specifically addressed to me, but I posted the following as a partial answer, and thought it [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 13 of 17 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. Student: I was thinking about something. I guess it actually ties in all the stuff we’ve been talking about in states of being, and I have an interesting problem along these lines. [...]
Continue reading about Concepts vs. Experience, Allowing vs. Holding
Something that’s been on my mind off and on for years, so I’m sending this question about it to Shinzen Young, a fabulous meditation teacher…. Just left you a phone message. To preview what’s puzzling me – I’m a writer, and it helps me to get things out on paper – it’s the idea I’ve [...]