Friday Discussion: The Double Standard
Here’s the podcast I mentioned on Friday about the biases that we have when we have direct access to our own thoughts through introspection, but not other peoples:
Read moreHere’s the podcast I mentioned on Friday about the biases that we have when we have direct access to our own thoughts through introspection, but not other peoples:
Read moreThis was prompted by a conversation on the topic with Dainuri. My contention that there are major differences between Yoga and Buddhism (with Zen Buddhism sitting a little bit in…
Read moreAccording to Yoga Sūtra I.20, the practice of yoga involves śraddhā: faith, trust, optimism. This trust or faith is never about how things are. It is always about how things…
Read moreHere’s a podcast about Stoicism, a philosophy similar to yoga (hat tip Meghan): https://www.happyscribe.com/public/hidden-brain/minimizing-pain-maximizing-joy Yes this is the dichotomy of control, although in my own works, I broken it into…
Read moreFrom Seth Godin’s blog: Once you realize that you can improve, amplify and refine the things that other people call attitudes, you may realize that they are skills. Which is…
Read moreThis week I recommended the documentary My Octopus Teacher. As Erica and Spiros say: In the film the documentarian dives into the same kelp forest every day to visit the…
Read moreThis is Ram’s article on his blog: “YOGASŪTRA OF PATAÑJALI AND BHAGAVADGĪTĀ OF VYĀSA” that I talked about at the beginning of the Friday Led Primary. It has hard-to-find information…
Read moreThis podcast discusses a 2014 paper by Alia Al-Saji about hesitation and seeing the world: […] Hesitation, which means literally stopping to interrogate your own habits of seeing, and so…
Read moreIn our continuing series of interesting content relating to Pranayama, here’s a podcast worth listening to: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/27/862963172/how-the-lost-art-of-breathing-can-impact-sleep-and-resilience (Hat tip Byron)
Read moreThis was contributed by Satish Ramachandran We sometimes approach the mat with a desired result, a desire for something on a given day. It could be to attain mastery over…
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