New Neuroscience and the Path of Awakening
We all want to be truly happy. The question is, how? In Buddhist practice, the “how” includes gradually transforming the mind – the seat of clinging in all its forms – to increase the causes of happiness and reduce the causes of suffering – ultimately, to complete Awakening.
Expressing Your Intentions
Once your intentions are clear, the next question is: How to express them?
How Can We Change Our Brains for the Better?
The bottom line, in terms of how we feel – are we happy, are we sad, are we effective, are we lost in stress – how we ARE is fundamentally the result of what’s happening in the three pounds of tofu between your ears.
The Science of Meditation
Key points about the brain and how the mind and brain can change each other.
Glossary: The Neurology of Awakening
Here is a glossary of terms from the Wise Brain Bulletin written by Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius.
Right Intention – Part 2
Of course, the first question regarding intention is, for what?
All the great wisdom traditions of the world, and all the great moral philosophers, have grappled with this question. What should we want?
Intersection of Neuropsychology and Contemplative Disciplines
Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius are interviewed by Patrizia Collard from the School of Psychology, University of East London, UK.
The Neurology of Awareness and Self
It is sometimes said that the three greatest – and toughest, and most significant – remaining scientific questions are these: What caused the Big Bang? What is the “Grand Unified Theory” that integrates quantum mechanics and general relativity? What is the conscious self?