In This Interview, Robert Wright and I Discuss…
- The Wolf Parable
- His book, Why Buddhism is True
- Evolutionary Psychology
- That according to Evolutionary Psychology we’re wired to do what’s best to propagate our genes into the next generation
- And how sometimes doing that might not be what’s best for ourselves or the world
- That we’re wired for a recurring dissatisfaction or discontented so we’d keep doing the things that would move us toward our goal of passing our genes on to the next generation
- Craving and Aversion
- Not following craving and aversion as guides are central to Buddhism
- According to Buddhism if we don’t run from unpleasant feelings like sadness, anxiety etc, they will actually become less painful over time
- That the Buddha intuited a lot of things that we now know to be true according to modern science and evolutionary psychology
- How our thoughts can sometimes subtlely influence us – ex Cognitive Bias
- Cognitive Bias being driven by emotion rather than being rational & Buddhism teaches that
- The Buddhist conception of the mind/brain and modern psychology’s conception of the mind/brain are very aligned
- In the cognitive battle for attention, the thought that “wins” is the one that has the most feeling attached to it
- How meditation can help give you clarity on thoughts and feelings and the difference between the two
- CBT & questioning your thoughts and feelings in Buddhism
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Allowing and observing rather than acting on our strong feelings
- The anguish we add to physical pain by the anticipation of it or the lamenting of it
- Essences that we impute into things
- The idea of not self and what it means
- The benefit of parceling out the things that we identify – like anxious feelings – as not being ourselves
- Thinking you’re not cut out for meditation
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A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other.
One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear.
The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”
The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feed
The Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable.
This parable goes by many names including:
The Tale of Two Wolves
The Parable of the Two Wolves
Two Wolves
Which Wolf Do You Feed
Which Wolf are You Feeding
Which Wolf Will You Feed
It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs
Nedira says
A TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN HAWKING & CALSEAN
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Shapes irrespective of their size are augmented with conformal geometry.
Sacred Temples – Hidden Messages
Law of superposition
The minimum mass of a spherically symmetric object in D -dimensions, and its implications for the mass hierarchy problem
QUANTUM TETRAHEDRON PAPERS
ISING SPIN NETWORK STATES FOR LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY BY FELLER AND LIVINE
What Quantum
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Communication Complexity
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has to say on Non-Locality
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and on Macroscopic Realism
Plant photosynthesis phenomics data quality control
phi, the nature of growth
Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You – Timeline
The Human Energy Field: The Vehicle That Carries Your Energy
By: Barbara Ann Brennan, Light Emerging
SEPHER YETZIRAH
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THE BOOK OF CREATION
W.W. Wescott, tr. (1887)
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Fred Astaire & Barrie Chase ◊ 1966
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SOCIOCOGNITIVE
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22:44_._VEILED-.-SARTRE IN 10 MINUTES
Binary opposition?
THE PATHWAY TOY FESTIVAL
TRUTH OR EXPOSITION
TODAY IS EPHEMERAL
YESTERDAY IS PAST
DUST OF FLOUR FOOD
GRAINS OF A CRYSTAL
A TREE
NATURE
RESOURCES
DERIVE THEY DRIVE ORIGIN
ORCHESTRATING THE POSITIVE
THE NEGATIVE PATH INTEGRALS
GIRL WITH A CRAZY LAUGH 26
Size Comparison of the Universe 2017
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IS OUR UNIVERSE LIKE A FINGERPRINT, NO TWO ARE ALIKE?
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Tommy James & The Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion – 1969
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OKAY HERE ON EARTH I THINK THERE EXIST A THEORETICAL PHYSICISTS “CONSPIRACY”
THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE SO INTELLIGENT THEY’RE ACTUALLY CAPABLE OF HIDING THE
KNOWABLE PROPERTIES OF THIS UNIVERSE
HEAR THE HYPOSTHESIS
WHAT IF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE CONSISTED OF AN INFINITE # OF SPRINGS EACH SPRING
DIFFERENT FROM EVERY OTHER SPRING
WHOA WOULD THAT AFFECT SUPERSYMMETRY
HUMANITY SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF BECOMING TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT
THE PROCESS FOR TRANSPARENCY STRING BY STRING SPRING BY SPRING
AND “OUT” STRING THEORY ONCE AND FAR ALL TIME
IS THIS EVEN PLAUSIBLE IF A BLACK HOLE CONSIST OF NEITHER SPRINGS OR STRINGS
IN OTHER WORDS WHAT IS THE COMPOSITE+RY OF A BLACK HOLE IF EVERYTHING IN THE
KNOWN UNIVERSE IS CONSTRUCTED BY COMPOSITES?
HOW IS THE COMPOSITION FOR THE UNIVERSE ANALOGOUS TOO . . .
Seeking materials that match the brain
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Stephen Hawking, the Expansive Cosmologist Who Shone Light on the Universe, Has Died
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Science of the Subjective
Robert G. Jahn and Brenda J. Dunne
Hang Massive – Once Again – 2011 ( hang drum duo ) ( HD )
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