Tuesday, November 29, 2011
When you dislike a person you only dislike your own feelings.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Is there free will or determinism ? The answer is neither
Saturday, November 19, 2011
There is no separate entity called the subconscious mind.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
The five aggregates: They are all activities of the mind
Monday, October 17, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
How the cross-fertilization of Classical Enlightenment and the Modern Mind could radically alter the course of human history.
Shinzen Young's opening keynote speech from the Buddhist Geeks Conference 2011.
Towards a Science of Enlightenment from Buddhist Geeks on Vimeo.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
How to fix your mind?
If your car is broken you cannot fix it unless you know how it works. To know how it works you need to stop the car first, examine and then learn. Working with the mind is the similar to this. You cannot fix your mind (to get rid of greed, hatred and delusion) unless you know how it works. This knowledge or wisdom comes from insight meditation. Stopping the car can be compared breath meditation. This is how you still (concentration) your mind.
Monday, September 26, 2011
What Science Can Teach Us About Practice: The Neuroscience of Mindfulness
http://youtu.be/jMsatDwx07o
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
How smell rules your life
The unsung sense: How smell rules your life - life - 19 September 2011 - New Scientist
Here is an extract from my model...
"...Sense consciousness from eye, ear,nose, tongue, body end up in the mind as a mental object..."To read more on this post follow this link:
http://wisdomthroughmindfulness.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-mind-works-revised-model.html
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Just as when a carpenter...
"Just as when a carpenter or carpenter's apprentice sees the marks of his fingers or thumb on the handle of his adze but does not know, 'Today my adze handle wore down this much, or yesterday it wore down that much, or the day before yesterday it wore down this much,' still he knows it is worn through when it is worn through. In the same way, when a monk dwells devoting himself to development*, he does not know, 'Today my Taints (effluents) wore down this much, or yesterday they wore down that much, or the day before yesterday they wore down this much,' still he knows they are worn through when they are worn through."
Sunday, August 28, 2011
What are Taints or Fermentations (Asava) of the mind? How do they work? A Buddhist perspective
4. Eliminating the taints
MN 2: SabbÄsava Sutta — All the Taints
table: Fetters, Latent Tendencies, and Influxes
MN 2: SabbÄsava Sutta —All the Taints
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MN 2: SabbÄsava Sutta —All the Taints
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MN 2: SabbÄsava Sutta —All the Taints
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Reference for audio mp3- A Systematic Study of the Majjhima Nikaya By Bhikkhu Bodhi
Monday, August 22, 2011
Memory contaminates perception Imagery retained in the mind's eye can influence visual perception, according to a new study
This new research is compatible with my model...
Memory contaminates perception
Imagery retained in the mind's eye can influence visual perception, according to a new study
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/neurophilosophy/2011/aug/17/memory-contaminates-perception
Here is an extract from the new research:
"We take it for granted that we see the world as it actually is, but in fact, we do not. Our perception of the world is the brain's best guess at what is actually happening, based on the information it receives through the senses. Optical illusions clearly demonstrate that the brain does not always interpret sensory information correctly, by producing a discrepancy between what we see and and how we perceive.
These discrepancies usually occur because the visual information is incomplete and the brain has to fill in the gaps. But our perceptions can be influenced by many factors, even under normal circumstances – we know, for example, that how we feel affects what we see, and that music affects how we perceive facial expressions.
A new study now shows that visual working memory can influence our perceptions, so that mental images in the mind's eye can alter the way we see things."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/neurophilosophy/2011/aug/17/memory-contaminates-perception
Here is an extract from my model...
"There are also thoughts that can be retrieved from memory in mind consciousness back into the mind. Mind consciousness may leave imprints of your past memory as sort of "auto save copy" in memory of your computer. The past memory in turn can influence your feelings, perceptions and thoughts."
To read more on this post follow this link:
http://wisdomthroughmindfulness.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-mind-works-revised-model.html