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Ordering
The Blissful Brain
The Blissful Brain is published
by Gaia Thinking. For more information on how to order your
copy, please click
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Guardian
G2: Mind over matter by Andy Darling
"Neuroscientist Shanida Nataraja has
proven meditation does more than clear your head, it can put
both halves of your brain to work, improving your concentration,
memory, and decision-making...". To read more, please
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Upcoming
talk: Yoga Ananda, Reigate, Surrey on Friday the 4th of June
Shanida Nataraja will be speaking at a seminar
on The Blissful Brain on Friday, 04th June 2010 at
19:30 at Yoga Ananda Ltd. 46 Albert Road North, Reigate, Surrey,
RH2 9EL. For more information, please click
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Interrelatedness
of All Things
The
interrelatedness of all things is a prominent feature of the
Perennial Philosophy. As we have seen, this states that there
is an Ultimate Reality that gives rise to and transcends our
physical reality. The limited reality that we can apprehend
with the five physical senses is seen to be embedded within,
and sustained by, a limitless Ultimate Reality.
One
of the essential principles of mysticism is the awareness
that all phenomena are manifestations of an all-pervading
and interconnected Ultimate Reality, and accordingly should
be viewed as being both interdependent and inseparable. In
Hinduism this Ultimate Reality is referred to as Brahman,
in Buddhism as Dharmakaya, in Taoism as Tao, and in esoteric
Christianity as the Godhead. In all of these traditions, transcendental
experiences of the Ultimate Reality are associated with a
sense of all-pervading unity. The distinction between “self”
and “non-self” dissolves, and the ordinary-state perception
of this and that are viewed as an illusion. In both Hinduism
and Buddhism, the mystics refer to the Ultimate Reality as
the Void. The Void is seen to be formless, but not empty;
all matter is derived from it, and therefore it is viewed
as the source of all life, a source of infinite potential.
In the West, the word “void” is derived from the Latin word
vacivus meaning empty. However, in Christianity, the “void”
or “emptiness” is seen to be plenitude or “fullness”.
The idea that every single component of our Universe contains
information about all of the other cosmic components is mirrored
in the philosophy of the 5th Century Greek philosopher Anaxagoras.
He proposed that nature was built up of an infinite number
of minute parts, invisible to the eye, and that, contained
within each of these minute parts, there are the fragments
of all other things i.e. “the whole exists in each tiny part”.
Similarly, in the Avatamsaka Sutra, the Ultimate Reality is
pictured as being holographic in nature.
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