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Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Let it Be: Basic Mindfulness Meditation

11/27/202011/29/2020
Happiness Arises From Your Present Mind State! So, train your mind in happiness: peace, free of the habitual thinking of self-ego-I with its unhappy fear, anger, and pride. Meditation is after all a c... Read More
Consciousness Studies • Mindfulness and Human Happiness

The Neuroscience of Meditation and Our Experience of Self

09/19/202009/20/2020
David Paul Boaz             What are the neurobiological influences of mindfulness meditation on human behavior; how do these influences effect our sense of self-ego-I; our brain structure a... Read More
Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Being Here (Poem)

03/16/202003/16/2020
Now is the time to enter in Now is the time to be Luminous mind awake Boundless whole itself Motion arises Diaphanous Spring rainbow Its heart is stillness No need to fix it Whatever arises Let it be ... Read More
Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Bodhicitta: Compassion Meditation

01/14/202001/14/2020
If you wish to change the world, begin with yourself. —H.H. the Dalai Lama             Both Gautama the Buddha and Jesus the Christ taught us that the practical antidote to fear, anger, ha... Read More
Philosophy of Physics and Cosmology

The Collapse of Scientific Local Realism:
 Non-Locality is Quantum Emptiness

10/20/201909/27/2020
David Paul Boaz           “The essential fact of quantum mechanics is entanglement” (Leonard Susskind). It was this “lucid mysticism” (Pauli) of Quantum Field Theory (QFT) with its holist... Read More
Consciousness Studies • Religious Studies

Quantum Cosmology and Buddhist Emptiness

07/09/201907/09/2019
An adequate cosmology will be written only when an adequate philosophy of mind has appeared. —E.A. Burtt           Disquieting Quiescence: Tales From the Dark Side. For recent quantum cosmology... Read More
Mindfulness and Human Happiness • Religious Studies

Toward an Integral Ecology of Mind

07/05/201911/01/2019
Truth is one; many are its names.  —Rig Veda             The Two Truths. Normal obscuring sectarian biases that are our “global web of belief” may be somewhat mitigated by an ... Read More
Philosophy of Physics and Cosmology

Toward a Centrist Noetic Science of Matter Mind and Spirit

07/03/201907/04/2019
Toward a Centrist Noetic Science of Matter Mind and Spirit Space and time are not conditions in which we live, but modes in which we think. —Albert Einstein               Value-free scien... Read More
Consciousness Studies • Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Primordial Wisdom Mind

06/30/201907/09/2019
Primordial Wisdom Mind   Truth is one; many are its names. ————————–—Rig Veda             The Wisdom of Mindfulness Meditation. T... Read More
Consciousness Studies • Philosophy of Physics and Cosmology

The Noetic Imperative

06/24/201906/24/2019
Our titular concern: with the collapse of local objective spacetime reality, what is real? Who am I being here in time? Our venerable quantitative Standard Model of particles and forces with its two i... Read More
Consciousness Studies • Mindfulness and Human Happiness

The Five Benefits of Mindfulness Practice

06/24/201907/05/2019
The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao. —Lao Tzu             What are the five healing qualities, characteristics and benefits of mindfulness meditation as told in the great wisd... Read More
Consciousness Studies • Mindfulness and Human Happiness

No Time, No Self, No Problem

06/24/201906/24/2019
                   Without past, present, future; empty awake mind.             —Ju Mipham             Neuroscientists and Zen Masters agree: the not so conscious cogniti... Read More
Consciousness Studies • Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Being Happy Now

06/24/201906/24/2019
Being Happy Now     For no small matter is at stake. The question concerns     the very way that human life is to be lived. —Plato, The Republic, Book I             “Come and See... Read More
Consciousness Studies • Philosophy of Physics and Cosmology

About Time

06/24/201906/24/2019
Time is nature’s way of preventing everything from happening at once.                                                                                   ... Read More
Philosophy of Physics and Cosmology

Gravity Behaving Badly: Problem and Opportunity

04/23/201906/24/2019
Gravity Behaving Badly: Problem and Opportunity   David Paul Boaz             Gravity—John Wheeler’s murky “great smoky dragon”—is the primordial entropic creator and destroye... Read More
Philosophy of Physics and Cosmology

Varieties of Buddhist Experience

04/03/201904/03/2019
Varieties of Buddhist Experience and Quantum Emptiness   David Paul Boaz Dechen Wangdu   Ontological Extremism, a Middle Way, and the Light of the Mind.         In Buddhism the Abhidhar... Read More
Religious Studies

What Is Human Happiness-What is Buddhist Emptiness

04/03/201904/03/2019
What Is Human Happiness? What is Buddhist Emptiness?   Without past, present, future; empty awake mind.         The Crux of the Matter.  Buddhist Middle Way View teaches of the “Two Tr... Read More
Mindfulness and Human Happiness • Religious Studies

Buddhist Basics: Being Happy Now

03/21/201904/03/2019
Buddhist Basics: Being Happy Now         David Paul Boaz             Form and Emptiness: The Fundamental Two Truths. In Buddhist Middle Way these Two Truths are: Ultimate Truth (paramart... Read More
Consciousness Studies • Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Primordial Consciousness: Dzogchen  Panpsychism

03/21/201904/03/2019
Primordial Consciousness: Dzogchen  Panpsychism Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them does not exist. —Werner Heisenberg             Panpsychism. There is now abroad in th... Read More
Philosophy of Physics and Cosmology

Idols of the Tribe – The Metaphysics of Modern Science

03/20/201904/03/2019
Idols of the Tribe: The Metaphysics of Modern Science             The new post-quantum scientific knowledge imperative: science and its scientists must make conscious their a priori preconscious... Read More
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