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Thought is Bad? Enlightenment Means Not Thinking?
[In this and subsequent postings, I’ll be writing about Buddhism, but such writings of mine always need to be qualified. I’m not a Buddhist scholar, for example, nor am I at all “enlightened” and thus...
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Clarity, Confusion, Science, Tibetan Buddhism – Being a Scientist, Being a...
Readers of this blog and of my books tell me they like to hear about my personal psychological processes, how they affect my spiritual and scientific work, rather than only “Professor Tart’s” reasoned...
View ArticleBuddhism As a Spiritual Path – Questions and Answers
A response to something I had written to a correspondent helped me crystallize some thoughts about Buddhism and spiritual paths that I would like to share. I will qualify this at first by reminding...
View ArticleAm I a Buddhist? A ____ist? And/Or? Science and Spirituality
Am I a Buddhist? A ____ist? And/Or? Science and Spirituality Charles T. Tart As I mix the scientific and spiritual aspects of myself more in later life, I think it would be useful, and honoring...
View ArticleCan You Intend to Transcend Intention?
Friends and I have been puzzling a lot lately over the descriptions of Buddhist enlightenment as being, among other things, devoid of intention. Because one’s mind is not attempting are intending to...
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Meditation: Shifting The Focus Of Vipassana From Content To Process
John Forrest Bamberger – Psychedelic Sunset 2 As mentioned in a variety of places, years ago I gave up meditation practice, having decided that it apparently took a certain kind of talent...
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Buddhism: Chances of Flourishing in the West?
A few years ago, I and a few other Western scientists had an opportunity at informal meetings with a number of Tibetan lamas to talk about how Buddhism, particularly Tibetan Buddhism, might become more...
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Bottom Line Spirituality: What Works, What Might Work Better
Bottom Line Spirituality: What Works, What Might Work Better Charles T. Tart I was reading along, without too much enthusiasm, a discussion held online by a group of informed people aiming to advance...
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The Secret Science of the Soul and Coast-to-Coast AM Interview
Finally, with the hardback edition of The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together out of print, I’ve arranged for a somewhat revised paperback second...
View ArticleWhy I’ve Studied Survival of Death Research, and What I Conclude, So Far…
So the consequences of my working belief being some kind of survival, with potential learning and karmic consequences? Interesting, challenging, and hopefully I’ll be smart enough to not have to learn...
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