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. [...]
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. [...]
Anonymous comments:
> In Buddhism, waking up might be described as the cessation of suffering because of the cessation of desire (ie ceasing of attachments and aversions). Do your experiences fit that description, ceasing to suffer, letting go of attachments and aversions?<
I am not comfortable with the word “cessation,” it’s so absolute. As long [...]
Anonymous asks, in response to my last post, “Do you think this was a
glimpse of a higher reality and not an illusion?”
Wow, what a question! The particular incident I wrote of
was a long, long time ago, so I’m going to draw on more
extensive experience later on when I was doing Gurdjieffian
mindfulness work, rather than trust [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 3, Part 10 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: What else is happening with people? Happening in the now.
Student: I feel heavy. That feeling of heaviness.
CTT: Good heaviness? Bad heaviness? Neutral heaviness?
Student: Neutral.
CTT: And it too may change. What’s that Sufi [...]
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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 3, Part 10 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: Somebody had a hand up over there.
Student: See, on that note, I don’t feel as connected to people. It’s like I’m trying to be so aware or present that it’s like I lose [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 3, Part 9 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Student: Is it possible to sense other people’s feelings while you’re doing the exercise?
CTT: Are you?
Student: A little bit. I was just wondering if that’s possible.
CTT: How do you know that they are other people’s feelings?
Student: I [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 3, Part 8 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Now I’d like to get some reports from people on what their experience is in doing this sensing, looking and listening (SLL). Particularly report, as usual, if you’re having any difficulties, so [...]
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I decided it’s not nice to keep people in suspense, given where the last post ended, so….right on to the priming exercise and the sensing, looking and listening procedure.
Leading through a Gurdjieffian Priming Exercise
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 3, Part 7 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click [...]
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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 3, Part 6 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: So I’m going to introduce you to the primary technique that Gurdjieff taught people to develop mindfulness in every day life through a systematic practice. It is like Vipassana, but you don’t [...]
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