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David Paul Boaz

Category: Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Consciousness Studies • Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Being Happy Now: The Metaphysics of Presence

04/12/202104/12/2021
Being Happy Now: The Metaphysics of Presence For no light matter is at stake. The question concerns the very way that human life is to be lived. —Plato, The Republic, Book I   Our Noetic Impera... Read More
Consciousness Studies • Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Primordial Wisdom Mind: Wisdom Mind Presence and Mindfulness Meditation

04/10/202104/12/2021
Primordial Wisdom Mind Truth is one; many are its names. —Rig Veda   Wisdom Mind Presence and Mindfulness Meditation           The nature and fruition of “mindfulness of breathin... Read More
Mindfulness and Human Happiness • Religious Studies

Toward an Integral Ecology of Mind

04/05/202104/12/2021
Toward an Integral Ecology of Mind: Being Happy Now   Truth is one; many are its names. —Rig Veda   The Primordial Two Truths           The normal obscuring sectarian biases that ... Read More
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
Consciousness Studies • Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Primordial Wisdom Mind: The Wisdom of Mindfulness Meditation

06/30/201904/12/2021
Primordial Wisdom Mind   Truth is one; many are its names. ————————–—Rig Veda             The Wisdom of Mindfulness Meditation. T... 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
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
Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Human Happiness

09/30/201609/20/2017
Human Happiness  With a bit of mindfulness practice (shamatha/vipashyana)—“the quiescent basis for peace and all higher knowledge”—we train the “wild horse of the mind” to... Read More
Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Primordial Wisdom No-Self Help: Radical Happiness and the Courage To Be

12/05/201509/20/2017
  Being Here. The masters of all the times have told it: the happiness that cannot be lost lives in our relationship with the infinite, that aware luminous source of finite reality undreamt of in the... Read More
Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Being the Whole: Happiness Itself

01/19/201510/17/2016
Now is the time to enter into it Now is the time to be Luminous mind awake Unbounded whole itself Whatever experience arises Pleasant neutral unpleasant No need to change it Whatever arises let it be ... Read More
Mindfulness and Human Happiness

The Secret of Human Happiness?

08/12/201310/17/2016
We are happy when we can bring others to happiness. —Guy Newland The theories of physics, if not the laws of nature, change from time to time. In micro physics and in cosmology they are relative, co... Read More
Mindfulness and Human Happiness

Realizing Human Happiness: Toward a Noetic Science of Matter, Mind and Spirit

08/10/201310/17/2016
Integrating Science and Spirit. In the 2nd century CE two great scholar-masters, Nagarjuna in the East and Plotinus in the West, began the Non-Dual Revolution in our Great Wisdom Tradition that is onl... Read More
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