Rational Dharma is a series of audio essays exploring practical insights from modern psychology and neuroscience for rational secular Buddhists.
We'll explore meditation, mindfulness, compassion, and insight, and how you can understand and optimise these practices with science - rather than reliance on tradition.
Most meditation instructions go something like this: 1. pay attention to the breath 2. if you mind-wander, bring your attention back and don't beat yourself up about it.
Unfortunately, these instructi…
Most people meditate for a long time with little improvement because of these four myths.
Read the blog and see the diagrams here: https://rationaldharma.com/blog/i-wasted-8-years-of-meditation-becaus…
A rational explanation of the project of Buddhism, and why the newly emerging science of the mind is essential to that project.
Read the blog and see the diagrams here: https://rationaldharma.com/blog…