When Neuroscience Meets Buddhism: Unlocking the Life Wisdom of "Āsavakkhaya"【Robert Tsao】
Do you live each day yet feel like you're "not really living"? Looking but not seeing, hearing but not listening, eating without tasting, sleeping without rest—this is the daily reality for most modern people.
Over two thousand years ago, the Buddha identified the roots of suffering as "greed, hatred, and delusion." Today, neuroscience reveals that what truly torments us is the "autobiographical self" in our brain—that voice endlessly fabricating stories.
When you learn to silence that chattering, bullying inner voice and return to the present moment, return to direct sensation, suffering ceases in that instant, replaced by ease and freedom. This is what Buddhism calls "the ending of defilements" (āsavakkhaya), and it's the very awakening described firsthand by the author of The Power of Now.
But knowing is easy; doing is hard. Just when we think we're about to let go, the next object of comparison appears...
Mr. Tsao uses a scientific approach to help you see the wisdom of Buddhism—perhaps the very key you've been searching for all along.
⏱ Chapters
00:00 Where does suffering come from? Greed, hatred, delusion, and the trap of "comparison"
01:37 Neuroscience reveals: two forms of consciousness, and the "autobiographical self" that bullies you
02:40 "Śamatha-Vipaśyanā" and the power of now: the path from awakening to the ending of defilements
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