LEARNING X PASSIVE EXPOSURE

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new study by researchers at the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon shows that you can speed up the processes by adding a third element to practice and feedback: passive exposure. The good news is that passive exposure requires minimal effort and is enjoyable.

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rd bk the art of solitude

Solitude is a fluid concept, ranging from the depths of loneliness to the saint’s mystic rapture. In his poem La Fin de Satan the novelist Victor Hugo declared that “the entirety of hell is contained in one word: solitude.” He later conceded: “Solitude is good for great minds but bad for small ones. It troubles brains that it does not illuminate.” Yet Hugo was unable to go as far as his older English contemporary William Wordsworth, for whom solitude was a “bliss” that filled the heart with joy. Largely avoiding its extremes of hell and bliss, here I will explore the middle ground of solitude, which I consider a site of autonomy, wonder, contemplation, imagination, inspiration, and care

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Then I remembered what Jesus had spoken of John the Baptist: "'But I say unto you, that Elijah is come already, and they knew him not....' Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist" (Matthew 17:12-13). * It was Elisha, incarnate as Jesus, who could recognize his master in John the Baptist from their past association as Elijah and Elisha. In many places, as will be shown in these Discourses, Jesus made significant references to John the Baptist and showed deference to him—when Jesus asked to be baptized of him; when he extolled John as the greatest of prophets born of woman (which included himself); when Jesus was transfigured on the mountain and Moses and Elijah appeared and when afterward he identified Elijah as John the Baptist.  PRMHNSA YGANANDA

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