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Ask the Teachers: What Does it Mean to Understand Buddhism Through the Body?

By Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam, Meido Moore, Roxanne Dault — 2021

Roxanne Dault, Meido Moore, and Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam discuss what it means to understand Buddhism through the body — the heart of the Buddhist path.

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Largest Ever Psychedelics Study Maps Changes of Conscious Awareness to Neurotransmitter Systems

In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec...

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Can Mysticism Help Us Solve the Mind-Body Problem?

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My Awakening: Spiritual Teacher Adyashanti Describes the Day He Awakened

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I became extremely serious about meditation practice when I read the following line from the illustrious Sri Ramana Maharshi: “That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.”

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Extended Awareness: The Possibilities of Quantum Consciousness

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