Ep. 8 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - The Buddha and "Mindfulness"
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Published 2019-03-08
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Books in the Video:
• Stephen Batchelor – Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism
• Michael Eysenck – Cognitive Psychology: A Student’s Handbook
• Ellen Langer – Mindfulness
• Christopher Mole – Attention is Cognitive Unison: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology
• Amir Raz & Michael Lifshitz – Hypnosis and Meditation: Towards an Integrative Science of Conscious Planes
• Susan Wolf – Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
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Eighth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.
All Comments (21)
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Prof, @ 43:53 , You say “language of explaining rather than the language of explaining”. Did you mean the language of training rather than the language of explaining? Earlier, you were making a distinction between both of those terms, and I found this part confusing.
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This is like therapy for people who overthink.
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17:22 "Negation is not transcendence. To negate something still frames it in the same way" These are wise words that I will be forever grateful for. Thank you Dr Verneake.
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Mr. Vervaeke, you have NO IDEA how valuable these lectures are in shaping our understanding of our own human nature, at a personal level. The last few decades of disintegration of value systems and the arbitrary nature of mass media messages had left millions with NO meaning. The likes of you and your efforts allows individuals to rediscover the right path back to the True, the Right and the Beautiful. We are eternally in your debt.
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Anticipating Vervaeke's new lecture every week like it's the newest episode of Game of Thrones.
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I'm beginning to wonder where I'd be today if I'd known about this series back when they were being released. Thank you from the deepest places of my being.
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IT'S FRIDAY, FRIDAY COG SCI TIME ON FRIDAY EVERYBODY'S LOOKING INWARD FOR SOME MEANIN'
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Thank you so much, Dr! I came here because of your conversation with Dr Jordan Peterson. Now, I have discovered a gold mine! I even have goosebumps while listening to this lecture. Thank you so much! 🙇🙇🙇
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I get smarter with ever lecture, or I realise how little I was actually taught! Thank you!!
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What a cliffhanger! Thank you very much Mr. Vervaeke. Once again, amazing lectures you are sharing with the world!
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For decades anxiety has tormented me and dominated my life. Within few weeks with your lectures my anxiety has reduced significally. I feel hope, for the first time in my life, that I can cure completely from the anxiety. This feels like permanent change in my person, not just shallow relief. Words cannot express how I feel right now. I cry out of happiness and gratitude here. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 💜🙏
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That soft vigilance concept is amazing. I think I do that intuitively on long subway drives from time to time.
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Wow as a meditator this is a really revolutionary example for me! Thank you.
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I'm a week into these lectures and I absolutely blown away. These are life changing
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Greatest thing on youtube..
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The musicality of intelligibility. I loved that term. Also, the "soft vigilance"! Often, with highly stressful situations within the learning process, my vigilance tends to be so hard that I am stuck.
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I wonder if, for John, giving these lectures are flow-state experiences. It certainly appears so. He seems so in tune with the content and seems to effortlessly find the perfect words and body language. Truly a joy to watch these lectures. Edit: A couple of hours later listening to episode 11, he actually mentions getting into the flow state during lectures.
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Mindblowing work you're doing John. I have never noticed before how people often describe mindfulness by its feature's list - like being present, not judging, etc. - but not at the depth of it like you described in this lecture. Thank you so much!
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There is so much wisdom in these lectures. Thanks Dr. Vervaeke.
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Stunning, crucial, compelling and soooo badly needed in my life.
