Buddhist Radio: Anger, Emotions, the Brain

Karla McLaren (Language of Emotions), Dr. Rick Hanson (Enlightened Brain), Roy Tuckman ("Something's Happening," KPFK) and SoundsTrue.com; Wisdom Quarterly

Dharma over the airwaves of LA (Ben Ashmole/flickr.com)

   

Loving is easier than taking a pill (weheartit.com)

Los Angeles is fortunate to have Buddhism on the radio at 90.7 FM. The connected world is fortunate, too, because it streams worldwide.
  
Unfortunately, much of the Buddhist programming occurs overnight. It is radio for night people with Roy of Hollywood on "Something's Happening." Thankfully, it's temporarily available in the audio archives to listen to FREE from Pacifica.  

In an extraordinarily lucid and enlightening segment, Karla McLaren (12:00-1:30 am, Sept. 11, 2012) redefines the usefulness of "negative" emotions. What is anger for? How about sadness, depression, guilt, and worry?
 

Emotions are as integral to our existence as consciousness (kyleweber.com)

   
They all serve us and have something they are trying to tell us. But they speak in a special way. In The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You, McLaren reveals that society tells us something different: We shouldn't feel them at all, and if we do, we should feel bad about it! Society shoulds all over us, and emotions linger for years unheard and unprocessed. McLaren points out that there's a better way.

• Part 4 of 6: "The Gift of Anger - Healthy Boundaries." Preparing for emotional channeling. Sadness and anger.  Contentment, guilt, and happiness.  Worry and joy.  Heading into deeper water.  Channeling anger.  Fury and rage.  Hatred: Part One.  Hatred: Part Two. 
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Does the brain know what the heart is saying?

Not content to deal with the heart, Roy follows up with a brilliant assessment of the brain (1:30-3:30 am). Neuroscientist Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of The Enlightened Brain: The Neuroscience of Awakening, gets to the root of brain structures and their activity in relation to Session 5 of 6: "Equanimity." What is an equanimous mind? Better still, What is equanimity?
  
Hanson tackles bigger Buddhist questions: The cause of suffering.  How our reactions create unnecessary suffering.  How the brain creates suffering.  The four components of equanimity.  Guided Practice: Focusing on Change.  Interdependence.  Guided reflection on the causes of a present difficulty.  Not being alarmed about being alarmed.  
  
Guided Practice: You're Alright Right Now.  The eight worldly winds.  Guided Practice: Tracking the Feeling Tone of Experiences and Their Reactions.  Calm, contentment, and virtue.  Guided Practice: Opening to a Growing Sense of Contentment.  Serenity. 

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• Coming soon: FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO EVENT: RICK HANSON "The Compassionate Brain"  October 8, 2012.
• Both authors presented courtesy of Sounds True, (800) 333-9185, soundstrue.com

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Free Yoga at the Getty Museum

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We're teaming up with Naked Juice to present the Art of Yoga at the gorgeous Getty Center on Saturday, September 22nd, and we'd love for you to join us.

 

RSVP for your spot at the event, which features yoga instructor Ashley Turner, music by KCRW’s Jason Bentley, free museum entry after the event, and Naked Pure Coconut Water.

   

The first 100 people at the event score a free yoga mat, but we promise that everyone will leave reinvigorated, replenished, and refreshed.

 

And if that’s not enough, everyone from the event is invited to the 10:00 am exhibition tour of “Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line,” and a 2:30 pm talk by performance artist Skip Arnold. Doors open at 8:00 am, class starts at 8:30 am.

• J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center
  1200 Getty Center Drive
  Los Angeles, CA 90049-1687

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9-11's "Loose Change," "In Plane Sight" (video)

911veritas ("Loose Change Final Cut" 9/11 documentary); Wisdom Quarterly

"In Plane Sight: Director's Cut"

The long awaited 9/11 documentary is now available to the public through the Internet and on DVD. Loose Change (loosechange911.com) once viewed by millions interested in the truth of 9/11 will finally blow the lid off the most spectacular crime of our lives. The truth is unimaginable for those who investigate without the bias that it has to be one way or another. Let the facts speak for themselves. We have been lied to by the military-industrial complex long enough. So ask questions, and demand answers.

(LSV) And now our feature presentation (Running time 02.10)

This movie has become the catalyst for an independent investigation, one during which family members receive answers to their questions and the real perpetrators be held to account for not only creating false flag operations but for using them as a now customary pretext for offensive wars and imperial escapades.

September 11th explanations disagree with the widely-accepted account that the attacks were perpetrated by a make believe CIA organization calling itself "al-Qaeda" without detailed advanced knowledge by any government agency. These explanations arose because of what proponents see as inconsistencies in the official propaganda and evidence that was overlooked. 

 

In a 2008 global poll that included 17 countries, 46% of those surveyed believed "al-Qaeda" was responsible for the attacks, whereas 15% believed it was an inside job by the U.S. government, 7% believed Israel was to blame, and another 7% believed some other perpetrator was responsible. The poll found that respondents in the Middle East were especially likely to name a perpetrator other than "al-Qaeda." Could the truth be that a "shadowy government," as Sen. Dan Inouye referred to it, was actually the culprit -- rather than the ordinary government that helped cover up the operation?

• VIDEO: Loose Change Second Edition (Google)

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