Charles T Tart (draft of 11-22-12)(There are many refinements and expansions of this essay I want to make, but knowing[…]
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Curiosity: A Missing Ingredient in Buddhist Meditation Practice and Modern Psychology?
(Draft of 11-11-12 – C. T. Tart) While participating in a meditation intensive practice led by Jeff Warren recently, I[…]
Read moreTemporal Width of the Window of Observation (TWWO): Aspects of Vipassana Meditation Considered from a Systems Approach
[this is easily-read material about meditation that gets more and more generalized as I develop it. I feel I should[…]
Read moreC. Tart Books on Mindfulness and on Science and Spirituality Now Available As Ebooks
I’ve told some of you before that I always feel a little embarrassed when I “promote” my own books, even[…]
Read moreDealing With Pain And The Subversion Of Meditation
While my wife and I were on our Fall camping vacation last week, I was “meditating” near a pathway in[…]
Read moreBlowing Your Mind Through Cognitive Satiation?
Some colleagues were recently discussing mantras, those special words or phrases whose repetition is supposed to produce spiritual effects of[…]
Read moreConscious of What?
Normally I don’t think much about questions like “What is the ultimate nature of consciousness?” To try to answer that[…]
Read moreMe and My Chakras
Once a very esoteric concept, known only to a few, such as scholars of Eastern religion, probably most people have[…]
Read moreClarity, Confusion, Science, Tibetan Buddhism – Being a Scientist, Being a Spiritual Seeker – Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s New Book
Readers of this blog and of my books tell me they like to hear about my personal psychological processes, how[…]
Read moreWho Will I Be? Mindfulness Teacher? Spiritual Teacher? Scientist? Professor? – Reflections and Online Workshop Progress Report
As I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago(April 9, 2012), I went back to lovely Asheville, NC for[…]
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