Showing posts with label Rick Hanson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rick Hanson. Show all posts

Friday, 11 April 2014

L.A. Festival of Books (April 12-13, 2014)

Ashley Wells, Seven, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; LATIMES.com; KPFK.org
The Los Angeles Times hosts the annual Festival of Books for all readers, free at USC
http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/

Books, books, so many books to read, to skim through on Kindle, to treasure in acid-free paper. Musty and crinkly, artsy and orthogonal, look at our library! We'll never read these...but we will reference them. We edit (see below), we cite (see at left), we treasure, and sleep on like Edgar Cayce (now David Wilcock) imbibing and absorbing information and knowledge -- maybe even a little wisdom. It's a dying art, maybe even a lost one, reading for the witty and well-read. But there are those great ones with all the nice pictures and the filthy ones that come in half a century of shades. Any how, here's a whole FESTIVAL of books and reading brought to us courtesy of the Los Angeles Times and USC.
 
The Buddha's "Higher Teaching" (Abhidharma) made easy to read by Sayalay Susila

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

The Neuroscience of Awakening (audio)

Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Mitch Jeserich (KPFA.org, 10-15-13)
Forest tradition meditation in pristine jungle in northeast Thailand (withfriendship.com)

 
Pacifica Radio host Mitch Jeserich (KPFA FM, Berkeley) delves more deeply into meditation this time looking at it from a Buddhist perspective with Dr. Rick Hanson, author of The Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom as well as the voice and brain behind The Enlightened Brain: The Neuroscience of Awakening (7 CD box set), and American Vajrayana (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's Shambhala) Buddhist nun Ven. Pema Chodron ("How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind" 5 CD box set).
Meditation Teacher to the Stars
 
(HuffPost Live) His clients include overweight mogul Oprah, comedian Russell Brand, genius Martin Scorsese, and schlocky showman Dr. Oz, but renowned transcendental meditation teacher Guru Bob Roth also serves low-income and under-served communities by sharing his passion: TM. And he stresses that "Stress is the New Black Plague." The guru Roth joins Nancy Redd to explain the benefits of meditation for everyone regardless of socioeconomic status or prestige in society. More