Wisdom Skill

It is said that to live wisely one has to be moderate in habits.  This will be found arduous, because of our already ingrained habits of mind, body and behavior.  Moderation takes “will” and intention, and ultimately some form of training or practice.  Otherwise, one has to rely on age, for when we are beginning to hit sixty and seventy, our bodies and minds begin to counteract our childhood and adolescent impulses.  However, can we learn to be moderate much earlier, without waiting so? Read the rest of this entry

The body is understood to bring energy to the system.  We eat a certain way, exercise and attempt to get enough sleep.  Howsever, we do not fully realize how much energy is dissipated through the type of thinking and emotional reactions that normally consume us. The more we observe our own minds, we realize not only how mechanical our thinking is, but also how much energy it takes to maintain our usual pre-occupations.  It is functional to use our thinking constructively; however, when unconscious reflection and cogitation expands from early childhood issues, the nervous system is affected by draining much needed psychological energy. Read the rest of this entry

We look for meaning in external things: a career, a relationship, money, possessions and other cultural markers. They do heighten one’s sense of pleasure and self.  They also can carry certain values, but what do these successes mean?  As Socrates said, the true meaning comes from self-examination.  Why is this so? Read the rest of this entry

Although we may not find a “quiet” area in the brain, there are certain neural circuits that when activated, can result in what is experienced as meditative.  These have a lot to do with unused areas of the frontal lobes that have not been generated.  As a species, we have only gone so far in our evolution, and we need to generate other efforts to find those areas of the brain that can lead to further intelligence in living.  These are found in the advanced frontal lobes, which is the crown of our understanding.  

Deeper states of mind occur when the inner workings of the mind, consisting of thoughts and feelings, are transcended and let go of.  These consist of self images that connect the individual to various social processes. Read the rest of this entry

In order to train the mind for contemplation, which is the real spiritual training, it is necessary to regulate and eventually transform many our main structures of living: identity, thought, emotion, attention, volition and instinct. Read the rest of this entry

The skill of Wisdom involves the understanding of experience, or the right relationship between self and world.  Often, when there is strong emotion or feelings states, we distort our self or our perception of the world, whether that is another person or some social process. Read the rest of this entry

Meditation is the deeper Space of the mind or psyche that does not include the normal thoughts, feelings and motivations.  It is the essence of who we are; the primal nothing that also contains our essential Being. Read the rest of this entry

One of the reasons we do not understand ourselves completely stems from the reactivity of the emotions.   Normally, we rely on understand the world through personal feelings which have no real objective value. Read the rest of this entry

Meditation is the skill of letting go of distracting thoughts and feelings in our psyche.  This occurs from our compelling need to process social experience. Read the rest of this entry

We say that a particular thing has a meaning.  Aside from the sense of meaning as a definition of a word or term, what is the clue to this enigmatic word?  Read the rest of this entry

Buddhist Mindfulness is often described as a way of right living and generally, being in the world.  However, attention, which is the heart of mindfulness, is never separated from action.  Read the rest of this entry

Why are we so self-absorbed?  Because we are so habituated to processing our social interactions.  Our frontal lobes are so overworked by recalling past actions and trying to “figure them out”.  The way back to reality is to engage the sensory zones of the brain. Read the rest of this entry

The most important paradox of living is that we are both important and not important at the same time.  We are important from the simple fact that we are the center of our own experience.  Even if we are not the center of attention, the world still revolves around us.  On the other hand, we are very inconsequential, not only on macroscopic terms, for we are just a speck in the whole universe, Read the rest of this entry

Meditation occurs when certain areas of the brain have been temporarily inhibited.  When activated, these early evolutionary circuits propel the individual to complulsively process social experience. Read the rest of this entry

The intellect is considered a different faculty that the Will or Volition; however, true Intelligence is the expression of the Will.  Normally, we think of Intelligence as sophisticated C0gnition; Read the rest of this entry

Art is usually designated for certain mediums, such as painting, music, sculpture and others.  Otherwise, to live with “art” implies some other form of creativity, such as deciding upon new ventures or doing interesting activities with one’s time. Read the rest of this entry

When we think of the identity, we usually recognize a self-image that includes the reference to who we are in relationship to some area of our life, such as relationships, career, money and health.  For example, if I am married, I form an image of myself as having a marriage status, such as a “marriage-I”.  Secondly, this is often put into a positive or negative reference, such as “I am having a good marriage” or a “good-marriage-I” or a “bad marriage-I”.  Read the rest of this entry

Much of our experience of stress or on the other hand, relaxation and peace is modulated through the way we breath.  The different variables to our breathing function are frequency or rate per minute and area of the lungs in which we breath.  By regulating our breath, we can affect these two variables, because stress is reduced by breathing deeply and in the right are in the lungs. Read the rest of this entry

When we observe the mind, we will find that it is very complicated.  This condition will often express itself as the complexity and drama of our social existence.  One of the aspects of self-observation is that it enables us to look squarely at internal material which has the potential to cause complication, thus prompting Awareness to look closely at these causes. Read the rest of this entry