Sublime

Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att

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You can be more developed in psychological structure-stages or consciousness-based state-stages, and many people focus on either meditation or psychology, as if one will somehow include the other naturally. We cannot see our structures of psychological development by focusing on internal meditation states. Your meditation experience will be interpr

Meditation has to do with opening what is closed in us, balancing what is reactive, and exploring and investigating what is hidden. That is the why of practice. We practice to open, to balance, and to explore.

More than once it has occurred to me that the main impetus for the precipitous burgeoning of interest in spirituality among members of my generation might be that we were the first generation of fathers invited into the delivery room as a matter of course, and the first generation of mothers in a long time who experienced the process of birth witho

The innovation of a meditation app allows for the quick convenience of dealing with acceleration itself. It doesn’t, however, promise to shift people away from the need for speed and the potential staleness that speed produces. It doesn’t oppose acceleration, but it does provide a way to quickly cope with the rushing pace of modernity.