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The Uncharted Present

·Jul 4, 2021

Mindful Spontaneity: The Gift of Embodiment

Disturbances dissolve in letting things be as they are, and troublesome thoughts melt like snow falling on the warm waters of non-interference. (Dzogchen classic) Imagine yourself stuck in a boring lecture. You have already heard it many times over. The speaker is dull and self-absorbed. The talk is dragging on…

Mindfulness

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Mindful Spontaneity: The Gift of Embodiment
Mindful Spontaneity: The Gift of Embodiment
Mindfulness

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The Uncharted Present

·Jul 3, 2021

Sitting Quietly, Doing Nothing: Choiceless Awareness and the Art of Freedom

Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? (Lao Tzu) Make sure you have no urgent chores to take care of. Set up a timer with a soft ring. …

Buddhism

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Sitting Quietly, Doing Nothing: Choiceless Awareness and the Art of Freedom
Sitting Quietly, Doing Nothing: Choiceless Awareness and the Art of Freedom
Buddhism

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The Uncharted Present

·Jul 3, 2021

Emergent Way: A Journey into the Unknown

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. …

Personal Development

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Emergent Way: A Journey into the Unknown
Emergent Way: A Journey into the Unknown
Personal Development

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The Uncharted Present

·Jul 3, 2021

Painting Legs on a Snake: Emptiness, Suchness, and Waking Up from the Story

Emptiness is relinquishing opinions. Believers in emptiness are incurable. (Nagarjuna) The wetness of water emerges from the interaction of water molecules. It takes a handful of them to start exhibiting water-like properties that are distinct from those of individual molecules. In fact, our skin doesn’t even have specialized “wetness” receptors…

Philosophy Of Mind

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Painting Legs on a Snake: Emptiness, Suchness, and Waking Up from the Story
Painting Legs on a Snake: Emptiness, Suchness, and Waking Up from the Story
Philosophy Of Mind

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The Uncharted Present

·Jul 3, 2021

The End of Becoming: Breaking the Spell of Enduring

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. (Alan Watts) The abundance of magical transformations in fairy tales reveals our ancestors’ aspirations to shatter the confines of the original form. In ancient Greek mythology, the Phoenix was a symbol of regeneration and renewal…

Philosophy Of Mind

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The End of Becoming: Breaking the Spell of Enduring
The End of Becoming: Breaking the Spell of Enduring
Philosophy Of Mind

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The Uncharted Present

·Jul 3, 2021

At One with Everything: The Paradoxes of Teleportation

If I had direct access to the other’s experiences, the difference between the two of us would disappear. (Edmund Husserl) You press a button, lose consciousness, and wake up after what seems like a moment later. While you were unconscious, a replicating device (the Scanner) extracted all your information and…

Philosophy Of Mind

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At One with Everything: The Paradoxes of Teleportation
At One with Everything: The Paradoxes of Teleportation
Philosophy Of Mind

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The Uncharted Present

·Jul 3, 2021

The Barriers to Love: Dropping Every Mask

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. (Rumi) If you look into my eyes, you will see another person like yourself. However, that would be just a projection. If you were to…

Neuroscience

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The Barriers to Love: Dropping Every Mask
The Barriers to Love: Dropping Every Mask
Neuroscience

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The Uncharted Present

·Jul 3, 2021

To Forget the Self: Exploring the Boundaries of the Mind

“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between one’s self and others.” (Dōgen Zenji) “I have a…

Neuroscience

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To Forget the Self: Exploring the Boundaries of the Mind
To Forget the Self: Exploring the Boundaries of the Mind
Neuroscience

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The Uncharted Present

·Jul 3, 2021

The Edges of the Self: Proprioception, Neuroprosthetics, and Expanding Beyond

It’s all a matter of making friends with the Malkovich body. Rather than being an enemy that must be pounded into submission, I began imagining it as a really expensive suit I enjoy wearing. (Being John Malkovich) Imagine being asked to touch your nose with your right index finger (a…

Neuroscience

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The Edges of the Self: Proprioception, Neuroprosthetics, and Expanding Beyond
The Edges of the Self: Proprioception, Neuroprosthetics, and Expanding Beyond
Neuroscience

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The Uncharted Present

·Jul 3, 2021

The Ghost in the Machine: Mental Maps and the Fragile Unity of the Mind

What dissolves the imaginary problem is seeing through both the problem and the one who seems to have it. (Joan Tollifson) Imagine yourself as an alien scientist trying to gain insight into my subjective experience by exploring me as a biological organism. As I am laying in a high-resolution fMRI…

Psychology

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The Ghost in the Machine: Mental Maps and the Fragile Unity of the Mind
The Ghost in the Machine: Mental Maps and the Fragile Unity of the Mind
Psychology

10 min read

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