The Neuroscience Of Awakening: Your Brain On Buddhism
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 เม.ย. 2023
- Our brains have the amazing ability to change themselves.
This is called neuroplasticity.
Our brains are not fixed structures.
Rather, they are dynamic systems that are constantly changing and
evolving in response to the environment.
In fact, research done in the last decade has shown that the brain is much
more malleable and responsive to change than previously thought.
Neuroplasticity can occur at different levels of the brain, from the level of
individual neurons to the level of entire brain regions.
One of the primary features of neuroplasticity is that it is
activity-dependent.
This means that the changes in the brain are driven by experiences and
activities.
For example, if a person engages in a particular activity repeatedly, such as
learning to play a musical instrument or practising a new language, the
the brain will adapt to these experiences and develop new neural connections
that support these activities.
Neuroplasticity also has important implications for understanding the
relationship between the mind and the brain.
If the brain can change and adapt in response to
experiences, this means that our minds also can change
and adapt.
But what do we mean when we say “mind”?
What is a mind?
The mind is nothing but thoughts.
There is no mind without thoughts.
Therefore, because of the neuroplasticity of brains, we can radically change
our thought patterns, or our minds.
We can change our thought patterns to have happier or more beneficial
minds.
But even more than this.
We can also develop the capacity to slow or even stop thought completely
by the activity of focusing attention on the emptiness or empty silence
between thoughts.
Many religious and mystical traditions, including many schools of
Buddhism, teach that it is this capacity to rest in the emptiness between
thought that ultimately reveals the very nature of reality, and the reality of
who we truly are.
#buddhism #neuroscience #awakening #buddha #spirituality
Script: Matt Mackane
Edit: Medo
Voiceover: Andrea Giordani
Music: Epidemic Music x Original
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I love being a Buddhist. My meditation practice, my Buddha statue, my incense and following the eightfold path are the most important things in my life. Buddhism is when science and empirical facts meet wisdom and spirituality. All the supernatural and magic and mystery mean nothing to me. Buddhism is for me proven truth and refinement of the mind, thoughts and one's own behavior
Buddhist meditation helps me recover from post-partum depression. I spent 18 months in the dark and wasn't able to recognize my baby. Several suicide attempts and even tried to kill my baby as well. Life becomes easier when I started feel the benefits of meditation.
I'm glad you found a way. Keep on meditating even just one little section at a time, it's okay. Just do it regularly. Sending all the love to you and yours. 💕🙏
@@doop9134Thank you. Very nice of you..🤗
Sending you sooo much love and prayers. I am very happy you found a place of peace. Nameste❤🙏
You lived one of my greatest fears. You are brave! And you have my deepest respect for healing and overcoming such a dark time. Blessed be ❤
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If you are reading this, your light is much needed in this world and I hope you know you are special and capable of amazing things. Wish you lots of love, health and success ❤
As a practicing Buddhist - I want to remind others that Buddhism is simply a path like any other. There are many ways to enlightenment. Don’t forget that 💙
Truth is a pathless land
I can certainly 2nd this lol
You are already enlightend.
You to allow the mud to settle.
Read this somewhere
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@@pipbowl3272 what the word LOL mean .
Is it a pali word or sanskri?
Never eard about it 😊
Mindfulness or being in the present moment is by far the best learning of this beautiful philosophy, which improves self-awareness and creates immense compassion within you. I am forever grateful 🙏
You are right! But please don't forget to cultivate shila (good ethics) and prajña (wisdom) just as the Buddha said, concentration is not enough for compassion and can be dangerous!
One of my favourite subjects. Would love to see the science of psychedelics as well. Thank you 🙏❤
check out the book "LSD my problem child"
Buddhism offers very useful and practical insight and wisdom that can be immediately used and greatly enhance life experience ( often life changing ) for the only life we know we have for certain
Buddhas teaching saved me from ending my life. It gave me courage to live. It taught me how important is Love, compassion and kindness
Absolutely true! All followers of Sanatana Dharma and practicing yogis and yoginis regardless of school; Kriya, Karma, Bhakti, etc know this is the truth!
Even one who doesn't follow sanatan also knows this is the truth!
Truth isn't limited to perticular ideology or religion
Any similar neuroscientific books about Yoga and the brain rather than Buddhism. Im off to have a look.
@@parth6115 people are just thinking if they add sanatana dharma they are just very advanced... 😗😗
@@manofsteel7728 i was also same in past,but with maturity understood that all paths reach at same destination
@@parth6115 yes, they do reach the same destination but the sanatan dharma alone has extensive research on the most effective way to do that. They made the first hand book and there's nothing wrong in acknowledging that, given this was achieved when no one knew anything about science and scientific methods in rest of the world.
What a beautiful 20 minutes! Everything said tally with my understanding and so glad to see that my understanding is not isolated and it is becoming main stream.
Brilliant video! Beautifully unifying neuroscience and Buddhism. Great illustrations and knowledge. Thank You!!
Absolutely love this channel 🙌
Reality = That which is/That I am = Being aware of being aware.
Freedom is a Way of Being. Being aware of being aware is unmodulated by the 5 senses, thus unfettered, which is the resonant inner state frequency closest in alignment with the frequency of the all-inclusive Absolute, where all things are possible (Wisdom and Understanding).
What appears as separate and opposite, is in Reality - Continuum.
Your voice is very healing 💕
The day you posted this video is actually my birthday and I take it as the best present so far :) Thank you!
This video has been the most important turning point of my life
What a great video! Comprehensive, thorough, captivating, extremely helpful. The list of books for further study at the end it’s so appreciate it. Much gratitude.❣️🌹
'I won't cling to the eye; my consciousness will not be dependent on the eye.' That's how you should train yourself. 'I won't cling to the ear...nose...tongue...body; my consciousness will not be dependent on the body.'...'I won't cling to the intellect; my consciousness will not be dependent on the intellect.' 'I won't cling to forms...sounds...smells...tastes...tactile sensations; my consciousness will not be dependent on tactile sensations.'...'I won't cling to ideas; my consciousness will not be dependent on ideas.' 'I won't cling to eye-consciousness...ear-consciousness...nose-consciousness...tongue-consciousness...body-consciousness; my consciousness will not be dependent on body-consciousness.'...'I won't cling to intellect-consciousness; my consciousness will not be dependent on intellect-consciousness.' 'I won't cling to contact at the eye...contact at the ear...contact at the nose...contact at the tongue...contact at the body; my consciousness will not be dependent on contact at the body.'...I won't cling to contact at the intellect; my consciousness will not be dependent on contact at the intellect.' 'I won't cling to feeling born of contact at the eye...feeling born of contact at the ear...feeling born of contact at the nose...feeling born of contact at the tongue...feeling born of contact at the body; my consciousness will not be dependent on feeling born of contact at the body.' ...'I won't cling to feeling born of contact at the intellect; my consciousness will not be dependent on feeling born of contact at the intellect.' 'I won't cling to the earth property...liquid property...fire property...wind property...space property; my consciousness will not be dependent on the space property.'... I won't cling to the consciousness property; my consciousness will not be dependent on the consciousness property.' 'I won't cling to form...feeling...perception...thought-fabrications; my consciousness will not be dependent on thought-fabrications.'...I won't cling to consciousness; my consciousness will not be dependent on consciousness.' 'I won't cling to the dimension of the infinitude of space...the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness...the dimension of nothingness; my consciousness will not be dependent on the dimension of nothingness.'...'I won't cling to the sphere of neither perception nor non-perception; my consciousness will not be dependent on the sphere of neither perception nor non-perception.' 'I won't cling to this world; my consciousness will not be dependent on this world...I won't cling to the world beyond; my consciousness will not be dependent on the world beyond.' 'I won't cling to what is seen, heard, sensed, cognized, attained, sought after, pondered by the intellect; my consciousness will not be dependent on that.' That's how you should train yourself." MN 143
I wish this video gets 100 million views.
I am really curious to know about the people behind this channel. They have brought such peculiar knowledge to novice spiritual seekers.
there can be mind without thougts, also there can be sensation and awareness without physical body
Thank you. My social media friends are going to love this. :)
What a magnificent voice
0:18 ITS JUST THE PURE EXISTENCE ❤️🙏.
Excellent explanation of the brain processes in relation to Buddhism. Congratulations! What is worth adding are references to more James Austin books, and a bit more on central Buddhist concepts.
Love from Brazil ❤️
One must awaken before enlightenment 🙏🏻
I have read, listened to and practiced meditation for years with a lot of breaks in between. However, I have never listened to comprehensive video as good as this one.
You need one more thing, just one more thing, LUCK!
86 billion neurons moved 140 trillion cells and ended up in front of a full-length mirror. 15 trillion cells tapped softly the cranium, and the mouth asked in a loud voice ¨Hello, hello, somebody home!? An ancient granny named Mrs. Nothingness came out completely naked.
What a wonderful surprise!
Budhism and science, a great combination
Im concerned of how close is the mind of some people, it doesnt matter if you say your Buddhist, mystic , yogi , zen master , christian , philosopher , as long as you seek truth without any attachments OR BELIEFS like religions, and manage to have near death experiences (like mystics did) then you can learn and have an experience of what reality is, embrace truth, not beliefs
Buddhism is kind out there, is amazing how wise buda was
i know right?? over 2000 years ago
Truely genius video, if only more would embrace meditation and psychedelics we could have more default mode networks around the world running calm. We would have far less violence and social pains. We could truely be empathetic and loving as a species again..
What a video. Thank you !! Awesome :)
Can you also make a video about the 10 Most Important Deities of Tibetan Buddhism in depth and how to cultivate/practice to achieve the path to Buddhahood? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism developed more than 600 years and 1000 years respectively after Buddha. so they contain a lot of teachings which deviate from the original teaching of Buddha. Sad to see later practices deteriorate into superstition and chanting unoriginal suttas and mantras like a parrot. This greatly deviate from the cultivation of virtue, deep meditation and insight wisdom found in the original teachings. Cheers.
Thank you asangoham 🙏🇮🇳
Thank you.
HELLO Asangoham THANK YOU for yet another insightful and thought provoking video, this is simply one of the most underrated channels i've come across, my spiritual journey has greatly benefited because of the channel! Recently, i've begun to understand that years of meditation can develop very interesting brain waves that may lead to altered states of consciousness, particularly gamma, epsilon & lambda are some of the more intriguing waves discovered so far, can you please bless us with an in depth video on these brain waves? That would be awesome, THANK YOU for your service to humanity! 😁
Great video as always
amazing, thank you!
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As a Christian, I always grew up with a sort of exaggerated description of what Buddhists believe. I developed a love for Japan, and along with it, Zen Buddhism, which I've studied on and off but only recently read Alan Watts's 'Way of Zen' - again, being Christian, there are takeaways from Buddhism I'll disagree with at the end of the day, but I deeply admire Buddhism and Zen for their unique philosophies and interest in brain science and the nature of space-time, which don't have to arbitrarily conflict with other religious beliefs. Certain insights on the nature of past-present-future from 'The Way of Zen' left me positively electrified, like the closest I've ever come to grasping Buddhism's heart (yet I suppose even the 'grasping' itself isn't the way to Satori?).
Yes, you are right, "grasping" is not the way to Satori.
The reason why it isn't is because Satori can't be any kind of mental concept.
So, in the best case, that what you "grasp" can only be a very good pointer to the real truth.
But ultimately, you must realize the truth for yourself by some kind of practice.
Belief is the enemy of knowing . Perception is not reality and Jesus teaching revolves around belief that he is the only son of god .
They conflict .
Bought all these books due to this vid. 😊
I love. Social media vitally is not a bad word
veryr beautiful explanation given in brain function in related to buddiest practice in meditation .as par as I am concerned I changed my mind in accordance to theroy of buddisam in which I selected by practice meditation in Buddha ways
Old Path White Clouds by Thich Nhat Hanh 👍👍👍👍
This is an excellent video on this topic. Thank you. Please tell me who is the narrator. She is exceptional! 🙏
another excellent vid asangoham =] thnx
This needs updating. Their are people with no internal dialog so their default mode is quite. These individuals with no internal voice are NO happier , more focused, or content than normal people. Also you need to add gamma brain wave meditation.
Best Wishes
Having no internal voice doesn’t mean no thoughts at all. Using words is just one way of thinking, people with no internal voice do not think in words, but in images/sensations or abstractions. The difference between a person that managed to calm his mind is that his brain wastes less energy on unnecessary ruminating and thinking. Many people spend a lot of time being in the mind rather in the present moment or in their bodies
i love it 😭
That all sounds like one hell of a guess to me! ✌️💖&💡
not really a guess if they're proving it with science
very helpful
Namo buddhay
All this is useful and brings up important connections between science and spirituality. However I feel it's important to bring up that the point of meditation is not to merely improve ourselves or practicing just because it useful or good for you. The point of it is meditation itself. As soon as you meditate for an alterior motive it's no longer really meditation. It has countless benefits for material existence but it's ultimately a way of being where you and the universe (nature, god, the source) are singular
Nice video please do a video on Mystical Christianity As well ❤
It's also why cats are said to be the best Zen teachers.
My cat liked this video. 😊 She considers herself more of a yoga and relaxation teacher than Zen master though.
Create a gateway
Create a lock
Lock the gateway
Break the gateway into pieces
Put the key in Buddhism
Put the lock in one religion
Put the gateway pieces in other religions
Spread it along the water
Know that one day the gateway will be opened
i have never had this commentary in my head... it has always been quiet in there. and my experience of life has always been quite different to what everybody else seems to experience... Just everything. It always confused me, until I learned that everybody else had this constant voice in their head. How exhausting that must be!
How interesting. What was your childhood environment like, or what do you contribute your innate stillness to?
I’ve experienced both mental states. I remember as a young child (maybe 5?) I watched an episode of The Wonder Years, a show in which an adult narrator looks back on his childhood and does voiceover to reflect the child’s thoughts. I remember thinking, “That’s not how my mind works, I don’t have a voice articulating everything. I just feel.” (Of course, I’m using words to explain the experience in hindsight, but you get the gist)
The voice came online later in childhood and didn’t shut up for 25 years. After a few years of meditation, the voice is much quieter now and I often enter mental states in which it goes away completely. But yes, we are often our own worst company in our heads.
a universe connected self is still a separate self
The selves have to be separate otherwise existence would be meaningless. The whole point of being is to experience the polarity and the frequency of separation and multiplicity
What was that thing @3:45 onwards?
Idk about “Buddhist” meditation. I think just meditation? As someone who would better be associated with Christian Mysticism, I must say that I learned to meditate from Buddhist teachings but all of that ended up pointing me to my Master. Just throwing that out there for anyone who may feel a little stuck or lost when it comes to the different descriptors of mystical practices. All of it serves the One maybe?
If I let go of body and mind no matter from which view, I come unto the one underlying spirit. “Crucifying one’s body with its passions and desires, one belongs to Christ. Since we walk in spirit, let us lead in spirit”. Or we can say “Letting go of empty phenomenon, we come unto the Absolute Buddha nature. Let us walk in it’s perfection.” Or we can say “Letting go of maya (illusion) we awaken to the supreme atman. Let us walk thus in accordance with Brahman, the eternal being.”
These descriptions are all valid from Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu views yet we can see they point to the one. It is as if I point my finger to the moon, and two other people also point to the moon. It isn’t the finger that is the moon itself but the moon that fingers are pointing to. This is how we should contemplate. There is no Buddhist or Christian meditation, both are fingers pointing us to the moon. Can the moon be one finger or the other alone?
Buddhism is so much more than just a religion asking for blind faith. Buddhism values practice the most..
Whatever neuroscience says is only a perspective from the outside.
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There are 2 types of meditation in Buddism: concentrative meditation and mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness meditation should be the shortest path to enlightment.
You need to do thorough research on samadhi of buddhism. It is not concentration as many people believe in.
@@sk-tp7zo Yes I did. It's called Vipassana. I'm from Thailand. Buddhism is our way of life. :)
Gautama Buddha was born in Lumbini, Present Nepal. 🙏
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How can I do if I self talk
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What Buddhism say about consciousness and the Mind-body connection ?
The ''seer" is an illusion. The "seen" is an illusion. Only seeing is real.
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asangoham soham shivoham
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First learn after practice
Do any time slowly slowly
One day i defenetly success
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Hey the Energy that's powering my body is the same energy in ur body. It's called LIFE and it's in every animal, insect, human and atom in the universe. Science doesn't know where this energy comes from and different religions call it the spirit of God, in esoteric teachings they say this energy IS GOD. It's whats giving life to the whole universe👁🧠🌌⚡️🙌
your point?
sorry you missed it
Can someone help me
Define more successful.
Vac index how may I stop mum bug north
If Space is one badass Vacuum..it means everything is Falling down with increasing acceleration and yet Sattellites can stay up there for sometime .with no falling down issues..More likely, Earth is made of Land or earth(30% visible and 70% invisible land cuz under the Ocean) is not located in the Infinite Space, nor floating in the vacuum of space...but rather Earth or Infinite Land is the Foundation of our Universe..Universe is not Infinite Space alone.
I’ll have what you’re having
There is only one way to Enlighten.
One true path is Sathipattana
Vipassana meditation.
how long does it take to get the benefits of meditation
We all meditate when we sleep.
When you meditation you will aware everything. But while sleeping you not aware it , Some you can imagine illutions that your brain created for your action in daily life. While medidation you listen all sound in your mind happen one after anothor one. If all that sound can be silent, you will feel peacefull. Sometime you will see phenomenon will happen. So on ...
"In the deep, dreamless sleep, we touch the source of existence itself. It is a state of profound stillness and peace, where the mind rests and the heart expands in boundless awareness. In that sacred realm, we glimpse the infinite depths of our being, beyond all names and forms, and merge with the timeless essence of the universe."
- Ramana Maharshi, Talks With Ramana Maharshi
They have obtained this from Hinduism (Vedic philosophy)
"Sense of a separate self"...could it be that this sense of separateness is closer to the truth of our being rather than the one cultivated by Buddhism where the practitioner is somehow "tricked" into believing that they are not separate from the world around them? 🤔
I prefer Ceremonial Magick/Hermetic Qabalah
Men have to go through a lot of training to achieve emotions like empathy, women are born with it.
Young boys definitely can feel empathy to others, it’s just that over time due to unfortunate situations they repress their empathy to deal with life. So it’s not that males are born without empathy
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Reminds you what to do if the hair system crashes and everything is over.
Is that an Indian accent with an English accent?
I have never heard that combo before.
Hebrew-ism & Buddhism are similar beliefs..He- Brew-ism is Brewing or growing/mixing a Spiritual Seed or Soul(Primodial ki/qi) for Cultivation..Budd-hism is Budding or growing a Seed or Soul in the bosom just below the Umbilicus for cultivation...Hebrewism is more ancient than Buddhism...but both originated in India/Nepal...Abraham is anagram of Brahma-n was the progenitor of Hebrewism & Buddhism, he & his Forefathers together with their Cattles & Brick making technology, left India and migrated to Middle-East and built the Tower of Babel.
One thing about buddhism is that their is no god but you are the universe compared to other religions where you have to worship god if i had to choose a religion definitely be buddhism
Identifying with a religion or ideology , you think this is Buddhism, this is the first illusion in which you're caught
In Buddhism Devatas or Gods, Heaven and hell, different realms Karma, reincarnation everything exist even if you pray Gods and goddesses they will help you to achieve enlightenment but mein goal is not to achieve god or go to heaven but go beyond everything even concept of God and that is Nirvana. Rig Veda also mentioned that god almighty came after the creation so Buddhism is very diverse tradition or philosophy where is lots of spiritual concept.
Mind is an Immaterial reality like Time, Space, OS etch and they are made of Nothing!
Meditation starts from budhism