Tag mindfullness

March 10, 2018
in Health & Medicine, Humanities

Meditation and Photography

March 10, 2018
in Health & Medicine, Humanities

Stephen Batchelor— Taking photographs and practicing meditation might seem at first glance to be unrelated activities. For while photography looks outward at the visual world through the medium of a camera, meditation focuses inward on unmediated experience. And whereas photography is concerned with producing images of reality, meditation is about

March 4, 2018
in Humanities, Psychology, Science

(Self-)Righteous Anger

March 4, 2018
in Humanities, Psychology, Science

Judson Brewer— In 2010, I went on a monthlong silent retreat with the aim of working on and possibly stabilizing a special c concentration type of meditation practice (jhana) that can be held for hours if practiced correctly. I had been reading about and trying to develop this practice for