Posts Categorized: Meditation

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Science and Wisdom Live Event

Science & Wisdom Live are hosting a special dialogue in collaboration with our North American FPMT partners, including Shantideva Center in New York and Land of Medicine Buddha and Ocean of Compassion in California. What is consciousness, at its core? Is it a product of brain activity, or a fundamental aspect of reality itself? In this thought-provoking evening, author Annaka Harris—known for “Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind” and her new release “Lights On”—joins Buddhist scholar Geshe Tenzin Namdak to unite scientific inquiry with contemplative wisdom.

 

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Meditation and Reality

In three paragraphs, my new “short” explains why meditation practice might give us a more accurate window onto reality:

Meditation entails the difficult task of cultivating concentrated attention on one’s moment-to-moment experience—the endless stream of feelings, thoughts, and perceptions—without judging or interpreting them, or allowing them to take immediate control of our actions. In its simplest form, meditation is a skill that undercuts all our evolved drives: planning for the future, learning from the past, following our desires to eat, drink, avoid pain, etc… 

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My Interview with Adam Frank on BigThink

Growing up, Annaka Harris had a restless, inquisitive mind — and terrible migraines. Which is how she developed an interest in the subject that would captivate her for most of her career: consciousness. “I was really focused on space and time and the distorted perceptions of things,” she says. “I started doing a kind of meditative practice on pain, like trying to get closer to it, and I realized I couldn’t really locate it in space.”…

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“Reality is Stranger Than You Think” My Interview With André Duqum

This was one of the most in-depth conversations I’ve had on a podcast. André and I discuss many of the topics that I cover in my upcoming docuseries, including how Sara Imari Walker has influenced my thinking, as well as the usual suspects: David Eagleman, Donald Hoffman, Anil Seth, Brian Green, Lee Smolin, Janna Levin, etc. I was impressed with Andre’s level of prep, and we were able to cover quite a range—neuroscience, plant biology, fundamental physics, to meditation.

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