Archive for the ‘Intellect’ Category

Fantasy v. Reality

In Turning the Mind Into an Ally, Tibetan-Buddhist Monk Sakyong Mipham describes the Meditative Journey through the levels of consciousness. He provides the reader with a map of consciousness and as my own experience has born out, it is an accurate one. That makes it useful.

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Athletics and the Mind

The health of the body is also the health of the mind. The inverse is also true: the health of the mind is the health of the body. The one to one relationship of psyche and soma is explained further in the Body-Mind Equation. Athletics gives us a window in which to examine this further. [...]

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The Body-Mind Equation

The relationship between mind and body, although seemingly very fundamental in nature, has been an important question for centuries.  But what is that relationship? And why is it so important to understand it?   One of the most notable thinkers on this question lived in France during the colonial period of European history. His name [...]

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Belief and Transformation

Imagine for a moment that you can only identify your own emotions correctly 40% of the time.  You get it wrong: 60%.  When one accepts this possibility, it becomes incredibly obvious how much one could actually make up about other people.  An examination of performance statistics for stock brokers and financial planners would undoubtedly reveal [...]

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