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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