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Turner is now an ordained Zen monk, yet he is also still a physicist, working for a company that makes helium neon lasers.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
most types of meditation currently studied are only the introductory practices from traditions in which awakening is the goal.
Loch Kelly , Adyashanti (Foreword) • Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness
To be choicelessly aware of everything about you and within yourself, is meditation.
J. Krishnamurti
“occurs when you can uproot the tree whose seed is the ’I’-maker, deep in the heart with all its branches, fruits and leaves. Leave the mechanism of the ’I’-maker alone Kumbha says and just rest in the space in the heart.”6
Michael Stone • The Inner Tradition of Yoga: A Guide to Yoga Philosophy for the Contemporary Practitioner
This process of becoming familiar with the self works both ways—you need to “see” the old and the new self.
Joe Dispenza • Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
need, and that is the watchman named mindfulness—the guard who is always on the lookout for when we get carried away by mindlessness.”
Joseph Goldstein • A Heart Full of Peace
A psychology of interdependence helps to solve this dilemma. Through meditation we discover that the duality of inner and outer is false. Thus when Gandhi was lauded for all his work for India, he demurred, “I do not do this for India, I do this for myself.”
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
The use of psychedelics, such as psilocybin, and the practice of yoga share similarities as paths to ego dissolution, though they operate through distinct mechanisms.
Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind highlights how psychedelics can suppress the Default Mode Network (DMN) in the brain, which is associated with the ego. This suppression can le
... See morebrahmavidya is not intellectual study. The intellect was given full training in these forest academies, but brahmavidya is not psychology or philosophy. It is, in a sense, a lab science: the mind is both object and laboratory. Attention is trained inward, on itself, through a discipline the Upanishads call nididhyasana: meditation.