Wildmind's meditation blog
Wildmind's blogs are where you'll find book reviews, commentary, podcasts, and articles that don't fit neatly into the more structured guides to meditation that you'll find on the main part of the site. Articles are arranged below by date, and you can also browse by author and category using the links on the left.
The ocean of interrelatedness, by Kulananda (Michael Chaskalson)
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Everything that we call “ourselves” is simply a changing pattern of interrelationships — patterns that are inextricably part of a great flux of conditions.
We all cling, however unconsciously, to the idea that we have a “self”, something that is “us in our essential nature,” something fixed and enduring, separate in its essentials from the rest of the universe.
This picture we have of ourselves is both false and limiting. Its principle limitation lies in … Click to read more »
“The Compassionate Brain” by Gerald Huther, Ph.D.
Gerald Huther is head of neurobiological research at a psychiatric clinic in Germany, working to discover more about the effects of fear, stress, addiction and nutrition on the brain. This book is a by-product of that research.
For Huther the human brain is a densely networked structure that is open-ended in terms of its programmability. Unlike those found in many other forms of life – such as stickleback fish whose complicated mating rituals are … Click to read more »