by Rick Hanson | May 4, 2017 | Brain Basics, Neurodharma
Darwinian and Nondual Perspectives, and Tools for Transcendence of the “Self” To study the Way is to study the self.To study the self is to forget the self.To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. – Dogen It is sometimes said that the three greatest –...
by Rick Hanson | Jan 20, 2014 | Well-Being
Every day, think as you wake up: Today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive, I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it.~The Dalai Lama To make the most of your life, to nourish the causes of happiness for yourself and others, it takes strength,...
by Rick Hanson | Aug 28, 2009 | Neurodharma, Relationships
Love tends to join and hate to separate, but joining is not the same as love, and separation is not hatred. Sometimes the most loving thing a person can do is take a step back: that’s distance in the service of attachment. And it’s not loving to join in invasive or...
by Rick Hanson | Aug 10, 2009 | Neuroscience and Contemplative Practice
© Rick Hanson, Ph.D. 2009 1 Rivers flow and eddies form.An eddy is a relatively stable pattern whose elements continually change. It is “standing-streaming,” a term from Evan Thompson’s marvelous book, Mind in Life. All eddies disperse eventually. 2 In a river, an...
by Rick Hanson | May 13, 2009 | Neuroscience and Contemplative Practice
The knowledge of neuroscience has doubled in the last twenty years. It will probably double again in the next twenty years. I think that neuropsychology is, broadly, about where biology was a hundred years after the invention of the microscope: around 1725. In...
by Rick Hanson | Jul 1, 2008 | Well-Being
Introduction Our topic is the sometimes difficult but always rewarding path from shame to worth. The spectrum of feelings in the territory of shame includes: • Inadequacy – Sense of being unfit, useless, not up to the task, inferior, mediocre, worthlessness, less...
