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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The American educational system is the main fuel source of the Little Engine That Could of U. S. society, as it has taught us how to train our attention but has not taught us how to train our attention well.
#2 The issue of overstimulation and continuous distraction is as old as the hills. The Buddha could have told you about Killingsworth and Gilbert’s findings 2,500 years ago: Nothing can hurt you more than an untrained mind, and nothing can help you more than a well-trained mind.
#3 In meditation, some people try to kill their monkey minds, by thinking that the thinking mind is of no value and just a bunch of garbage on repeat. However, this contradicts a key tenet of neuroscience: the brain can’t not be doing something.
#4 The space between things is a key that can unlock the mystery of how we experience the mind and how we might bring it under our own auspices. It’s often called the third thing. Everything we experience involves a subject and an object, but the quality of our relationship to those objects determines the nature of everything we think, feel, say, and take in from the world around us.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	10 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822501683
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The American educational system is the main fuel source of the Little Engine That Could of U. S. society, as it has taught us how to train our attention but has not taught us how to train our attention well.

#2

The issue of overstimulation and continuous distraction is as old as the hills. The Buddha could have told you about Killingsworth and Gilbert’s findings 2,500 years ago: Nothing can hurt you more than an untrained mind, and nothing can help you more than a well-trained mind.

#3

In meditation, some people try to kill their monkey minds, by thinking that the thinking mind is of no value and just a bunch of garbage on repeat. However, this contradicts a key tenet of neuroscience: the brain can’t not be doing something.

#4

The space between things is a key that can unlock the mystery of how we experience the mind and how we might bring it under our own auspices. It’s often called the third thing. Everything we experience involves a subject and an object, but the quality of our relationship to those objects determines the nature of everything we think, feel, say, and take in from the world around us.

#5

The parts of your monkey mind are just like the speaker in this story. They may have caused you pain in the past, but you can’t take the time to develop a relationship with them in the present moment.

#6

We can change our relationship to our experience by allowing it to be our friend rather than our enemy. When we allow our experience to dictate what we feel, think, and do, it becomes our boss. When we fight against our experience or try to blot it out in some way, it becomes our enemy.

#7

When we apply a growth mindset to our experience of the monkey mind, we can shift out of habit and enmity and into the incredible. We can shift out of the way we think about our minds and lives and into a new, positive way of thinking.

#8

I had a difficult time writing my book because I was locked out of my computer account. I was experiencing an emotional reaction that was disproportionate to the severity of the situation, most likely exacerbated by the fact that I’m a trauma survivor who hates feeling restricted by others.

#9

We all suffer from involuntary inner tempests, and it’s not our fault. They are a result of our bodies’ survival-oriented states of mind being mismatched to the actual reality we are faced with.

#10

The gap between our biological and social evolution is vast. Our biological evolution has taken between five and eight million years to develop us into the complex beings we are now. Our social evolution has taken only 100,000 to 200,000 years to develop everything from smartphones to Instagram.

#11

We human animals are still part of nature, and everything in nature has its place and purpose. We must remember that we don’t have to live in a dog-eat-dog world, and yet our overactive defensive structures create the feeling that we do.

#12

The monkey is asking you to meditate. The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention over and over again is the very root of judgment, character, and will. An education that improves this faculty would be the education par excellence.

#13

In Hinduism, Maya, the goddess of illusion, is the personification of deceit. She is the driving force behind the cyclic, repetitive way things seem to work in the material world. The end result of chasing samsara is frustrations, disappointments, and tragedies that we seem to revisit again and again.

#14

There is a difference between secular meditation for stress relief and meditation as a path. When the monkey mind is in control of the body, it is annoying but kind of funny. But when it has serious consequences, such as overthinking having serious consequences, we must address it.

#15

The B word is a misnomer and inherently limiting in many ways. It is important to state that I am not a Buddhist teacher, and I do not represent any Buddhist tradition or community whatsoever.

#16

The body is the most important thing about our existence, and we have grown to appreciate little of it. We have come to treat the body as if it were a mere object, when in reality it is a living organism.

#17

The relaxation response is the original, natural state of the body-mind. It is a state of restoration and repair, and it is what we prefer to be in. We can’t do relaxation, but we can let go of the tension, stress, unresolved emotional material, and fatigue that is held in our body.

#18

meditation is often referred to as a mind-science and a mind-training. In our culture, we think of the mind as being located in the head, and then meditation becomes something we do in our heads. But meditation should be about reconnecting with the body, since the body is the mind’s home.

#19

I had hit a point in my life where my meditation practice was no longer supporting me or nourishing my life. I was working in clinical foster care, one of the most intense jobs in the field. I began to feel a visceral connection to the earth below and the environment all around me.

#20

There is an entire Buddhist canon focused on embodiment and the soma’s connection to the earth. Over time, this strengthens our capacity for embodiment and mental quietude.

#21

The body and mind are constantly working together. We don’t have a mind or a body, but we have a body-mind that consists of a body and a mind. The body desires to release unnecessary tension, and we can directly experience a natural untangling of the body by focusing on it.

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