Mindfulness and the brain - Uni of Oxford Podcast

General discussion of issues related to Theravada Meditation, e.g. meditation postures, developing a regular sitting practice, skillfully relating to difficulties and hindrances, etc.
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A great discussion, using MRI, on meditators.

http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/expsych/ ... ulness.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Thank you, Sylvester!
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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Thanks Sylvester,

Here's a link that allows you to find other related talks:
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/mindfulness-and-brain-audio" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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8 weeks was all it took. Wow! The finding on delinking looks like the giving up of grief and hankering mentioned in the sutta.
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Thanks for posting that, Sylvester. That's a really interesting programme, one of the best "secular" discussions of the issues I've come across.

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