This is the second conversation related to my new book Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. Today we’re focusing on the final four practices in the book: wholeness, nowness, allness, and timelessness.
This is the second conversation related to my new book Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. Today we’re focusing on the final four practices in the book: wholeness, nowness, allness, and timelessness.
Underlying that is a question that feels particularly relevant these days: why aim for the “heights of human potential” when simply surviving the here-and-now already feels so challenging?
As a quick note, if you want even more content related to the topics explored in these episodes, I recently launched my new online program based on Neurodharma. Registration is now open, and podcast listeners can enter the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price. If you register by May 8, you’ll also get a free hardcover copy of Neurodharma and a signed print from me!
Key Topics:
- 2:00: Why aim for “the heights of human potential” – or the highest happiness – when the here and now already seems so challenging?
- 7:30: Wholeness, Nowness, Allness, and Timelessness.
- 11:00: What is an aspect of awakening?
- 14:20: The front edge of now.
- 17:00: The value of timelessness for a “normal person.”
- 23:00: The elements of consciousness.
- 26:45: The inherent emptiness of things.
- 32:50: Avoiding the pitfalls of emptiness.
- 34:30: The apparent self.
- 38:00: Our relationship to changing the self.
