Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson The Highest Happiness
What is the "highest happiness," and what can we do to achieve it?
This is the second conversation with Dr. Hanson related to his new book Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. Today we're focusing on the final four practices in the book: wholeness, nowness, allness, and timelessness.
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Key Topics:
2:00: Why aim for “the heights of human potential” when the here and now already seems so challenging?
7:30: Wholeness, Nowness, Allness, and Timelessness.
11:00: What is an aspect of awakening?
14:20: The front edge of now.
17:00: The value of timelessness for a “normal person.”
23:00: The elements of consciousness.
26:45: The inherent emptiness of things.
32:50: Avoiding the pitfalls of emptiness.
34:30: The apparent self.
38:00: Our relationship to changing the self.
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