“There was something undetermined. It was before the birth of Heaven and Earth. That something was plunged into an immense silence and it was a measureless void. It exists by itself and is preserved without change. It can be considered the [...]
Tagore on silence
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence Rabindranath Tagore
Human brain frontal lobes not sole center of intelligence
Research into the comparative size of the frontal lobes in humans and other species has determined that they are not - as previously thought - disproportionately enlarged relative to other areas of the brain, according to the most accurate and [...]
Neurological Deaths Spike In US, Western World; Environmental And Social Changes Suspected
Deaths from neurological disease have increased dramatically in Western countries, especially in the U.S., and the onset of disease is earlier during the working-age years, reported Colin Pritchard, a neurology professor at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom, along with [...]
Modern life causing dementia earlier, study finds
Researchers found a sharp rise in the deaths from dementia and other neurological disease in under-74s, and believe that the figures cannot be explained away by the fact we live longer. Instead the “epidemic” is down to the environmental and [...]
The silence worth more than a thousand lives
This silence is worth more than a thousand lives, this freedom worth more than all the empires on earth. To glimpse that truth within yourself, For even just a moment, is worth more than all heavens, all worlds, All this, [...]
Full circle
"We of the Occident are about to arrive at a crossroads that was reached by the thinkers of India some seven hundred years before Christ. This is the real reason, why we become both vexed and stimulated, uneasy and yet [...]
The Divine Radio
When one comes to think of it one cannot help feeling that nearly half the misery of the world would disappear if we fretting mortals knew the value of silence. Before modern civilisation came upon us at least six to eight hours of [...]
Theta brainwaves reflect ability to beat built-in bias
Despite how we've evolved, life doesn't always encourage acting to gain reward or freezing to avoid punishment. Sometimes we must restrain ourselves to gain a reward (baseball batters can get on base by not swinging at bad pitches), or take [...]
WOB Radio
"The radio station WOB, Wisdom of the Buddha, is broadcasting all the time: all we need is a receiving set." Heinrich Zimmer