Here We Sit: Recent Episodes
California, Forest, and Go
Here We Sit is a project of the Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages and its Mindful Living Program. This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by members of the 2020 Mindful Living cohort. Here, we aim to cultivate space for ourselves and our listeners to sit with questions and topics without necessarily having the answers. What are you sitting with?
We reflect upon the George Floyd murder in a white supremacist culture in a second of a two part series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YylpY7cyaC8&feature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFzjvpFAOXM
https://vimeo.com/344731069
Pro-Trump personality Candace Owens described Adolf Hitler’s plan for Germany as initially “OK” while speaking in the same city that the Nazi dictator relentlessly bombed nearly 80 years ago. Recently fired Fox personalities, Diamond and Silk.
“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.” ― Oprah Winfrey
https://youtu.be/lalQ3ABWIZA
Evolution myths: 'Survival of the fittest' justifies 'everyone for themselves'
The “fittest” can be the most loving and selfless, not the most aggressive and violent. In any case, what happens in nature does not justify people behaving in the same way
The phrase “survival of the fittest“, which was coined not by Darwin but by the philosopher Herbert Spencer, is widely misunderstood.
For starters, there is a lot more to evolution by natural selection than just the survival of the fittest. There must also be a population of replicating entities and variations between them tha
We talk about sitting with the George Floyd murder in a white supremacist culture.
won’t you celebrate with me By Lucille Clifton
won't you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
https://youtu.be/vAwa7QT_1GQ
Oakland, protesters turn streets into giant dance party: ‘One more song’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR71QoHMdko
We talk about living with the Covid-19 quarantine.
List of Symptoms
Fever or chills
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Fatigue
Muscle or body aches
Headache
New loss of taste or smell
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea
Food Mill Oakland
Morphic Resonance and Morphic Fields - an Introduction
by Rupert Sheldrake
In the hypothesis of formative causation, discussed in detail in my books A New Science of Life and The Presence of the Past, I propose that memory is inherent in nature. Most of the so-called laws of nature are more like habits.
My interest in evolutionary habits arose when I was engaged in research in developmental biology, and was reinforced by reading Charles Darwin, for whom the habits of organisms were of central importance. As Francis Huxley has pointed out, Darwin's most famous book could more appropriately have been entitled The Origin of Habits. More...
The Four Noble Truths comprise the essence of Buddha's teachings, though they leave much left unexplained. They are the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering.
The Eight-fold Path
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK-Zun_9OT0