Meditation
This was emailed to me by an Obama supporter, and is written with an Obama win in mind. However, it is a beautiful meditation, no matter which candidate you support.
If you are voting for some other candidate, you can still do your own version of this beautiful mediation, with well wishing for all.
So helpful.
Dr. Goldin (Stanford Univ.) was interviewed Oct 14th on My Health and FItness, KPFA. You can hear the archived (excellent!) show at http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=28890.
Layna Berman, the interviewer (a health integretionist) brings up some really good points, and Goldin is really clear and helpful.
How do these emotions manifest in the brain? How can we retrain the brain? How can we retrain our habitual responses?
He talks abut the self from the Buddhist viewpoint. And much much more. Really an excellent teaching show by someone who is both a neuroscientist and a Buddhist meditation teacher.
I watched this last video last week with a Buddhist mindfulness study group.
The video is incredible. People transform their lives and their pain in this video. Such wisdom.
biography of http://www.snowlionpub.com/pages/palmo.html
With heartfelt passion for human potential, Tenzin Palmo asks, “How can we collectively wake up?”a video teaching http://www.archive.org/details/GlobalOnenessProjectVen.TenzinPalmo_WakingUp
wonderful audio teaching http://www.zencast.org/index.php?post_category=Tenzin%20Palmo
This was filmed shortly before his death in 1991, and includes archival footage. It is on Youtube in 5 segments, narrated by Richard Gere, filmed by Mattieu Ricard .
HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was a true enlightened being, brimming with compassion.
The film also shows much about Tibet, Bhutan, and of course the prohibition of religion imposed by the Communist Chinese in Tibet. The film also has interviews with HH Dalai Lama. And shows the young Yangtse.
...Maitreya, in his text the "Sublime Continuum," gives three reasons on the basis of which one can conclude that the essence of Buddhahood permeates the minds of all sentient beings.
UCLA Professor Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., recently published a book entitled, The Mindful Brain, which primarily examines the impact of mindfulness practice upon brain structure and function. In my opinion it is the most important book about this subject that was published in 2007. [Of course, that may be because it was published on my birthday!]
Below there is a brief essay that summarizes some of Dan Siegel's ideas about mindfulness, psychotherapy and the brain. (His new book is much broader in scope.)
In addition, the following link leads to a video excerpt from one of his recent seminars.
Alan Watts was the first workshop to be held at was to be called Esalen. I have been listening to some of his talks recently and find many just a relevant as when he gave them. At the end of this talk it tells you where to go to download other free talks by Watts.
Here is a good lecture by University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Richard J. Davidson, the leading researcher in the field. The video runs RealPlayer. It’s about an hour and twenty-five minutes long. You can skip the first 4 minutes....
http://www.portalwisconsin.org/AE_monk.ram
