Three Words: Samskara, Neuroplasticity and Meditation.

I thought this would be a good place to start a thread consolidating some information I've come across relating to what I touched on in this post:

https://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/s...&postcount=252


Meditation's Impact on the Brain | Documentary Clip https://youtu.be/r3neFV38TJQ


Here's the full video "A Joyful Mind | Meditation and Mindfulness Documentary" https://youtu.be/HBX92PT3264


Here's a video I stumbled upon many, many years ago that inspired me to take meditation much more seriously - "Becoming Conscious: The Science of Mindfulness" - and where I first heard of Resting in Awareness, also known as Choiceless Awareness and Do Nothing Meditation courtesy of Jon Kabat-Zinn. One of the panelists, Neuroscientist Richard Davidson, is in the short excerpt of "A Joyful Mind" above. https://youtu.be/5TeWvf-nfpA?list=PL...ydVp1WpVnPNokg


"Meditation and Going Beyond Mindfulness - A Secular Perspective". Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a Tibetan monk and frequent participant in Richard Davidson's lab investigations into mindfulness meditation. He's also the monk in the first clip being inserted into the fMRI machine. https://youtu.be/ukTaodQfYRQ?list=PL...qIg8q6QRm5Y J


Here's the connection to spirituality.

Samskara https://www.yogapedia.com/definition/5748/samskara

The Second Arrow Parable https://mindfulnessmeditation.net.au/arrow/


I know it's a lot of info but if one is serious about meditation, either as a secular or spiritual practice, it's really invaluable stuff.