Given the overwhelming result of the recent poll you may be interested to know the results even if you will never attend a AICS retreats. Overall there was about 10% of you who voted; with the total number of votes recorded being twenty-one. Here... Continue Reading
It looks as though we have found the ideal facility for AICS retreats; but then what is the ideal duration? Given that most people are busy with work, family and so on, and while I do have my own opinion, as a method of gauging the right balance I thought... Continue Reading
This workshop covers material from the paper Dysfunction, Dispositional Narrative and Meditation, I will present at this years Australian Meditation Conference. Here is the abstract: The stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, often lead to dysfunctional... Continue Reading
While cognitive science has brought objective, third-person investigatory techniques to the study of consciousness, still there is no consensus or even a clear understanding of its nature. There is still much work to be done. It is my belief that cognitive science must adopt a first-person approach to research for clarity to obtain. Buddhism, is more than the articulation of philosophical or religious views: it is the critical investigation into whether these views correspond to reality and moreover, via the utility of the first-person approach.
In a recent meditation class here in Hobart I was asked about taking dharma into daily life; how can we integrate that learnt in these sessions into our daily activities. That is, how can we take the insight found whilst our minds are still, and use this in our day ...
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