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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
here.
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
click
here.
The
Times: Calm down dear by Angela Pertusini
"Claims by the neuroscientist Shanida
Nataraja regarding the benefits of meditation have been backed
up by rigourous scientific research and are explained in her
acclaimed book The Blissful Brain: Neuroscience and Proof
of the Power of Meditation". To read more, please click
here.
Just
this Day event: A Day of Silence and Stillness at St
Martin's in the Field on 23rd of November 2011
Shanida Nataraja will be participating in
this exciting event that aims to explore the power of silience
and stillness in our busy world. For more information, please
click
here or visit the Just
This Day website.
Mindfulness
in the Workplace: Brain based approaches to improving employee
resilience and productivity at Robinson College, Cambridge
on 10 February 2012
Shanida Nataraja will be speaking at this
day event that brings together leading experts in mindfulness
to discuss how it could help organisations improve productivity
& resiliance. Speakers include Professor Mark Williams, Michael
Chaskalson, Ruby Wax, Margaret Chapman, and more (for more
information, please see click
here.
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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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