Meditation is an activity we do with our mind. It’s 100% a mental activity. Why? Because during meditation we do not move any part of our body. If you have ever seen a Buddha image or statue, you normally see him sitting with his eyes closed. It’s the image representing his enlightenment and also his …
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Neuroscience is the study of the our brain function. With sophisticated detectors we can see which part of our brain becomes active at certain times. We study our brain as hardware and try to understand how it functions. However, neuroscience is limited in that it cannot explain clearly what happens when we think. Knowledge of …
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To talk about meditation, we should start first with the existence of the mind. Do you think that the mind exists or not? For a long time in school and university we study a lot about ourselves. Most of what we learn when we are young is about our body. What we know about ourselves …
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We have seen more and more people becoming interested in meditation in the last few decades. Everythingaround us has become faster and faster. We can communicate with people who are in another part of the world very easily. Information technology changes our world continuously. Inspite of this we wouldn’t say that people of our modern …
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