“ Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality—it’s all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I’m attending here is a show with another set. And…
When I was an undergraduate I found myself with a spare elective. I took Abnormal Psychology and found it to be at once the most frightening, fascinating and useful class I ever took.
I was introduced to two books The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (1985) and Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841). This course and these books started me on the path of investigation into the relationship between perception and reality.
Here is some real world nuts and bolts advice: no Buddhism, no yoga, no philosophy. I get a ton of messages from people who are faced with a variety of problems. It can be looking for a job, writing a thesis, dealing with difficult people, choosing a career or any one of the thousands of daily…
(via life-is-go0d)
Life is naturally easy.
Life is not an effort, life is a flow.
Dharma"
here and where you are."
(Source: honeysighs)
1. To the best of your ability meditate at regular times in the cool of the morning or the quiet of the night. This way your family or roommates will come to know your meditation times and perhaps be respectful of this time.
2. Have a designated meditation spot. It can be a corner of your room….
You may have noticed that I have been talking a lot about “awakening” and “self observation”. There is a purpose to this beyond merely walking the path toward enlightenment. A practical purpose which will help you with your anxiety and depression right now and not some far distant time in the…
