236: Culadasa on How the Mind Works

<p>Culadasa is a meditation master with over 4 decades of experience in the Tibetan and Theravadan&nbsp;Buddhist traditions. He taught classes in neuroscience and psychology at the Universities of Calgary and Brittish Columbia. He now lives in the Arizona wilderness and leads the Dharma Treasure Buddhist Sanga. His book on meditation, <a href="https://amzn.to/2uny3XY" target="_blank">The Mind Illuminated</a>, is the book Eric&nbsp;calls the best book on meditation he's ever read. This is a two-part&nbsp;interview. In this episode, part one, Eric and Culadasa talk about how the mind and brain works - knowledge that is essential to understand before one can successfully implement the meditation techniques that will be discussed in part two. These techniques have the very real potential of transforming your meditation experience. So listen up in this episode and get ready to radically re-understand this thing we call the mind.</p><p>Visit <a href="http://oneyoufeed.net/transform" target="_blank">oneyoufeed.net/transform</a> to learn more about our personal transformation program.</p><p>New science and research has changed the formula of improving hair and stopping hair loss 1st months supply with a subscription for $10&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nutrafol.com/" target="_blank">www.nutrafol.com</a>&nbsp;promo code WOLF</p><p>&nbsp;Read or listen to thousands of nonfiction book summaries all on your phone in under 15 minutes&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blinkist.com/wolf" target="_blank">www.blinkist.com/wolf</a>&nbsp;to start your free trial or get 3 months off your yearly plan</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In This Interview, Culadasa&nbsp;and I Discuss...</p><ul><li>His book,&nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2uny3XY" target="_blank">The Mind Illuminated</a></li><li>How the mind and the brain works</li><li>The basic distinction between attention and awareness</li><li>How when we give labels to something we can know and understand it better</li><li>The moments of consciousness model</li><li>Non-perceiving moments of consciousness