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Flow Triggers

The Rise of Superman: 17 Flow Triggers is an interesting review of essential ‘flow triggers’ as the author Steven Kotler calls them in his book The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance. Anyone comfortable with the Zen(1) point of view will recognize them right off. Steven rephrases them in a religiously […]

BRAIN

President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) seeks to decipher how the brain’s circuitry produces thought and behavior. This is interesting on several levels. Certainly, ongoing scientific corroboration of what we have long suspected at an intuitive level is very useful. (thank you little mouse… sorry!) Two recent Science News’ articles looked […]

Natural Happiness

My motto for the secret to happiness, generally speaking, is to like what I do rather than do what I like. Sure, this is easier said than done. Nevertheless, recalling this motto daily helps prevent my expectations from dictating my life willy-nilly. No doubt, scripture (Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, Biblical, etc.) first got me seeing life […]

You are Immortal!

Yes you are… I am… we are! That bold claim needs proof, which I can give you, and you will probably accept if you buy Buddha’s view of what ‘you, I and we‘ truly are. In other words, if you don’t accept Buddha’s Four Noble Truths as being true, at least in principle, this post […]

Who says chickens are stupid?

Who says chickens are stupid? Stupid people, I expect. While this research, Pigeons rival primates in number task, reported in Science News isn’t about chickens per se, it probably would apply to chickens. I mean how much smarter is a pigeon going to be than a chicken? More importantly is how scant the difference really […]

Earn It to Learn It

Knowing, in the Taoist sense of the word, is not knowledge per se. As chapter 15 puts it, Of old, the adept student was minutely subtle, open and deep beyond knowledge. Times are different now. Our modern electrified pace of life is continuously updating every facet of human knowledge. However, this is not the case […]

Buddha’s Work

I review Buddha’s Four Noble Truths during my yoga headstand every morning. Today, Truth #4 stood out, although not in any earth shaking way, more in a “well, duh” kind of way. First, though, here is his fourth truth: The Fourth Noble Truth is the Middle Path that leads to the cessation of suffering. There […]

Insatiably Curious at 70?

This book review on The Ravenous Brain(1) in Science News mentions my age group. The author, Daniel Bor, argues that consciousness is a “chronic mental hunger.” That certainly has been my experience. However, he also says, “During aging, the insatiable brain becomes less so. We are less ravenous for new jewels of wisdom, and our […]

The Why Of It

Digging down into the bottomless mystery—the why of it—feels a quixotic quest at times. Then I add quixotic insult to injury by posting my observations on the web. I know these are palatable to only a few people and they already know intuitively what I’m saying, more likely than not. What is the point? Ah, […]

Networks of Networks of….

This Science News report, When Networks Network (1), hints at humanity’s gradual cognitive slide toward a small ‘t’ Taoist point of view. I say slide, rather than climb, because humanity’s great climbing phases eventually reach dead ends, in a manner of speaking, followed by a slide back to reality. This endeavor, along with quantum theory, […]

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