Pathway to Presence
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On Emotional Filters
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in today’s gathering. In today’s session, we explored the fifth of the “filters” that shape our perceptions of reality, which is the filter of our emotions. Like I shared in… Continue reading
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On Mental Schemas
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company in today’s gathering. In today’s session, we explored the fourth of the “filters” that shape our perceptions of reality, which is the filter of the schema. Like I shared in… Continue reading
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On Predictive Coding
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our gathering today. In today’s session, we explored the third of the “filters” that alter our perceptions of reality, which is the filter of predictive coding. Like I shared… Continue reading
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On Tunnel Vision
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company today! In today’s session, we explored the second of the “filters” that alter our perceptions of reality, which is the filter of tunnel vision. Like I shared in my brief… Continue reading
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On Sensory Gates
Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our gathering today. In today’s session, we began our exploration of the different kinds of “filters” that alter our perceptions of reality. Today’s focus was on sensory gating—the automatic… Continue reading
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On Noticing Filters
Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company again in our last gathering—and to see the return of familiar faces! In last week’s conversation, we explored how mindfulness practices can help us train our ability to “zoom in”… Continue reading
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On Refining Attention
Dearest Friends, It was such a joy to be reunited with all of you again today—and to also meet the newest member of our sangha! In today’s conversation, we revisited Joseph Goldstein’s definition of mindfulness as “knowing what’s going on… Continue reading
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On Causes and Conditions
Dearest Friends, I hope this reflection finds you reasonably well. In many of the sessions I’ve led with you under our beloved Banyan community, I’ve often spoken about understanding “causes and conditions”—whether these are of the personal, familial, communal, societal,… Continue reading
