Sublime

From Tibetan monks to Franciscan nuns, Newberg scanned the brains of expert meditators who had encountered the same sort of intense feelings of unity that Yaden experienced. Newberg found that regardless of their religion or spiritual belief, the very same brain area was implicated—the superior parietal lobe, a region of the brain associated with

Zen Buddhism is a way and a view of life which does not belong to any of the formal categories of modern Western thought. It is not religion or philosophy; it is not a psychology or a type of science. It is an example of what is known in India and China as a “way of liberation,” and is similar in this respect to Taoism, Vedanta, and Yoga.

in saying that Buddhism is something like psychotherapy, it might be correct to say that Gautama, the Buddha, was the world’s first great psychotherapist.

we do not easily notice that all features of the world hold their boundaries in common with the areas that surround them—that the outline of the figure is also the inline of the background.

is. Thought communicates with universal energies that are non-negotiable.

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Huxley’s psychedelic-inspired description of the brain as a ‘reduction valve’ of otherwise unlimited consciousness—

It sounds as if you are referring to Trungpa Rinpoche.