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		<title>The Primacy of Consciousness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about my next blog for a little while.  It&#8217;s on right view.  Anyway, I came across this video quite by chance.  Peter Russel is now a philosopher but as I understand it used to be a nuclear physicist. I loved the explanation that light from lights point of view, doesn&#8217;t experience time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More brain matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In a Zen master the alpha blocking produced by the first noise lasts only two seconds. If the noise is repeated at 15 second intervals, we find that in the normal subject there is virtually no alpha blocking remaining by the fifth successive noise.]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2224932/">Seeking: How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous.</a> Yoffe talks about how the brain is hard-wired to seek. A little while ago, maybe in a some somewhat esoteric post, I addressed non-Seeking.  But what's interesting in this article is that the author suggests that we need to give the brain a rest from seeking.  Again I think science has found a reflection of spiritual reality in the material form.]]></description>
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		<title>The brain of a meditator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not expert but&#8230; It seems that meditation enlarges certain parts of the brain. Science Daily published an article to this effect. And another article shows that buddhists really are happier. The danger inherent in this understanding is that it is essentially materialistic. By that I mean that seeing it as a brain function, keeps [...]]]></description>
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