It's with great joy that I announce that Alan Wallace will be touring Brazil from the 4th to 15th of June. He will be giving lectures on where and how Buddhism and Meditation converge with Neuroscience, as well as providing meditation retreats. He will also be launching one of his latest books: "Hidden Dimensions" which I pasted a little piece of it here so you can have a glimpse:
“… A third disparity between mental appearances and reality pertains to the fact that thoughts, emotions, and other mental phenomena seem to have an inherent personal quality. When strong identification with these processes occurs, one may feel that one’s very identity has become fused with them, and momentarily have the sense “I am angry”, or “I am elated”. But with some skill in observing the contents of the mind, one finds that thoughts and mental images arise by themselves, with no voluntary intervention or control by a separate agent or self.
…As noted previously, all usual kinds of experience, both sensory and introspective, are structured by memories, language, beliefs, and expectations, which cause us to assimilate even novel experiences whether we want to or not. …”
B. Alan Wallace
Hidden Dimensions - page 45
http://www.alanwallace.org/index.htm
“… A third disparity between mental appearances and reality pertains to the fact that thoughts, emotions, and other mental phenomena seem to have an inherent personal quality. When strong identification with these processes occurs, one may feel that one’s very identity has become fused with them, and momentarily have the sense “I am angry”, or “I am elated”. But with some skill in observing the contents of the mind, one finds that thoughts and mental images arise by themselves, with no voluntary intervention or control by a separate agent or self.
…As noted previously, all usual kinds of experience, both sensory and introspective, are structured by memories, language, beliefs, and expectations, which cause us to assimilate even novel experiences whether we want to or not. …”
B. Alan Wallace
Hidden Dimensions - page 45
http://www.alanwallace.org/index.htm
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