Jordan Peterson

12 rules for Life – an antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson

12 Rules for Life. 1 Stand up straight with your shoulders straight.2 Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.3 Befriend people who want the best for you.4 Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not the useless person you are today.5 Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.6… Continue reading 12 rules for Life – an antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson

How We See the World

Boogeymen… why we need to be rid of them

It is really high time, that the human race dropped our fear of "boogeymen"..... we know that this irrational fear rose from our survival instincts (yikes, that grass over there is moving..... is it a lion that wants to make me his late night snack??) But it has long infected our imaginations with concepts like… Continue reading Boogeymen… why we need to be rid of them

Cutting to the Chase - Getting to the bottom of things · Emotional Reactions · How to Practice · Meditation - Zazen

On Meditation and the Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist in Conversation

...."Psychoanalysis, for instance, contends that you need to find a way to dig into those hidden impulses and identify them, whereas Buddhist meditation teaches you to free the thoughts as they arise." https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/meditation-and-the-unconscious-buddhism-neuroscience-conversation/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Body/Mind - How we use our resources · Cutting to the Chase - Getting to the bottom of things · How to Practice · Journey to WHoleness

The diversion from our Inner Fullness……. is Neediness

Neediness is the mind being hungry for an object. Neediness.... the single most dangerous diversion from our inner balance. Sneaky little devil that it is....... Neediness is not associated with our 5 senses, although it tricks us into thinking it is. Neediness is the mind being hungry for an object. And how do we not… Continue reading The diversion from our Inner Fullness……. is Neediness

Body/Mind - How we use our resources · Cutting to the Chase - Getting to the bottom of things · How to Practice · How We See the World · Just Thinkin'

What is the purpose of our lives?

Why do we humans exist as individual beings? Our "meaning and purpose" is being alive and directly experiencing life and the awe of nature from the perspective of an individual being. We do this by directly living in our sense world of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. (has been called absorption in the one)… Continue reading What is the purpose of our lives?

All-Being · Creation Thought vs Non-Theistic Thought · Cutting to the Chase - Getting to the bottom of things · How We See the World · Just Thinkin' · Oceanic Awareness

Oceanic Awareness as an explanation for everything which Exists

Is there a system in everything we see?Scientists fear this question, because if they say yes, then the religion folks jump on them and say that the system is some sort of intelligent design(er).... ie. Some sort of god. So, instead they (not all of them, but as a group) lean away from admitting that… Continue reading Oceanic Awareness as an explanation for everything which Exists