meditation and contemplative practice
What is enlightenment?: Neuroscientists
Off the chart In 2004, we put Matthieu Ricard in a scanner. A molecular biologist who left the Pasteur Institute to become a Tibetan monk, 50,000 hours of practice.... What is enlightenment?: Contemplative traditionalists
Ordinary mind Joshu asked Nansen: "What is the Way?" Nansen said: "Ordinary mind is the Way." Joshu asked: "Should I try to direct myself toward it?" Nansen said: "If you try to direct yourself toward it, you move away from it." Ninth-century China....