Dr. Charles T. Tart on January 31st, 2010

Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 6 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: Now I say that with a little trepidation, because I’m thinking of some of the spiritual literature that seems to say that thinking is bad. Period. That thinking is always an [...]

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Dr. Charles T. Tart on January 24th, 2010

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 on January 17th, 2010

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? [...]

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Dr. Charles T. Tart on January 11th, 2010

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? [...]

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Dr. Charles T. Tart on December 19th, 2009

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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Dr. Charles T. Tart on December 10th, 2009

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 [...]

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Dr. Charles T. Tart on December 10th, 2009

[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. [...]

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Dr. Charles T. Tart on November 22nd, 2009

Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 1 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: All right. Just for the sake of upholding various spiritual traditions I’ll be traditional: [...]

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Dr. Charles T. Tart on November 11th, 2009

Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 3, Part 12 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: You’ll find the sensing, looking, and listening especially interesting to do in difficult situations.
Student: I was going to ask if you have any advice on how to maintain that during a stressful situation. [...]

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Dr. Charles T. Tart on November 8th, 2009

Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 3, Part 11 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: Nobody’s asking the question people always ask of how come only your arms and legs? So I’ll give you the answer anyway. Do some people at least wonder?
Student: Yeah.
CTT: Point one, it’s traditional. [...]

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