Jhāna meditation and the practice of speaking in tongues could hardly look more different. In jhāna, the body settles into stillness: quiet, seated, composed. From the outside, nothing stirs—an almost austere calm, cultivated through generations of Buddhist teaching that has spelled out in detail how attention should be directed toward the breath or another chosen…
Have you ever been stopped in your tracks? Have you ever been confronted with something so far outside of your understanding that you were disoriented by it? Have you been shown to be absolutely wrong, when you were certain that you were absolutely right? Have you been touched by reality in a way you cannot…
When I was a child, I was introduced to contemplative practices that changed my life. Starting in the fourth grade, I regularly walked to my grandmother’s house after school. I vividly recall walking along the streets of that neighbourhood, watching squirrels scurry up and down giant pine trees. When I arrived at her house, my…
Transdisciplinarity has emerged as a focal interest in academia over recent years and is conceptualized and applied in many ways. Transdisciplinary approaches aim to dissolve the traditional silos of academic fields, deeply integrating disciplines from the outset of a project. We are a team of transdisciplinary scientist-scholars investigating species across the web of life that include trees, slugs, microscopic worms, and fungi.
Transdisciplinarity has emerged as a focal interest in academia over recent years and is conceptualized and applied in many ways. Transdisciplinary approaches aim to dissolve the traditional silos of academic fields, deeply integrating disciplines from the outset of a project. We are a team of transdisciplinary scientist-scholars investigating species across the web of life that include trees, slugs, microscopic worms, and fungi.
In December when my cousin Kristin died, I was living in a windswept cedar-shingled house perched on a stone foundation 3,500 miles away, near the cold and rocky beaches of Nova Scotia. Kristin and I grew up together, spending summers at the family cabin on the cold and rocky beaches of the Pacific Northwest, and…
In secular educational settings, mindfulness is taught primarily with reference to its observable and measurable scientific benefits. Educators often refer to findings of brain imaging studies that reveal mindfulness can significantly alter brain structure in ways that would appear to make it particularly applicable to modern life. As a mindfulness educator, I have seen students…
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