Compassion and Deep Wisdom of Cutting Edge Somatic Brain Research. A Stanford Neuro Scientist meets A Holistic Ancient Teacher. Both Sharing A Similar Ageless Message, In Fact ...?
“The brain is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.”
Who are we really?
Brain surgeon James Doty shares fascinating human (and AI digital) evolution insights with Krista Tippet via onbeing
The science of compassion.
The baggage of evolution.
Poly Vagal Tone, artificial intelligence, robots and wellness.
Hormones, Health and Vedantic Self Knowledge in a Simple Connection.
The two way street of “neural innovation that comes from the brain stem into the heart.”
Brain surgeon James Doty is on the cutting edge of our knowledge of the brain and the heart: how they talk to each other; what compassion means in the body and in action; and how we can reshape our lives and perhaps our species through the scientific and human understanding we are now gaining. (or embracing and remembering ancient wisdoms)
James keeps it ever so simple, a kind, generous smile sends out a contagion ripple. Get on board, have a listen and enjoy both his ideas and Krishnamurti's Notebook. They are remarkably similar.
"Life is not merely at one fragmentary level, bread, sex, prosperity, ambition;life is not fragmentary; when it's made to be, it becomes utterly a matter of despair and endless misery.Brain functions in specialization of the fragment, in self-isolating activities and within the limited field of time.It is incapable of seeing the whole of life; the brain is a part, however educated it be; it is not the whole. Mind alone sees the whole and within the field of the mind is the brain; the brain cannot contain the mind, do what it will.To see wholly, the brain has to be in a state of negation.Negation is not the opposite of the positive; all opposites are related within the fold of each other. Negation has no opposite.
The brain has to be in a state of negation for total seeing; it must not interfere, with its evaluations and justifications, with its condemnations and defences.
The brain has to be still, not made still by compulsion or force or coercion of any kind, for then it is a dead brain, merely imitating and conforming.
When it is in a state of negation, empty, it is choicelessly still.
Only then is there a non dual, a whole, total seeing.
In this total seeing which is the quality of the mind, there is no seer, no observer, no experiencer; there's only seeing.
The mind then is completely awake.
In this fully wakened state, there is no observer and the observed; there is only light, clarity.
The contradiction and conflict between the thinker and thought ceases. Krishnamurti's Notebook
Krishnamurti is regarded globally as one of the greatest thinkers and teachers of all time.
From the time of his break with the Theosophical Society in 1929 (dissolution speech) until his death in 1986, Krishnamurti spoke throughout the world to large audiences and to individuals about the need for a radical change in mankind.
The talks and discussions are accessible here through a timeline and world map, along with biographical information and introductions to Krishnamurti and his teachings.
