Ep. 504 – What Makes A Healthy Mind? with Cortland Dahl

Mindrolling with Raghu Markus

This week on the Mindrolling Podcast, contemplative scientist Cortland Dahl and Raghu Markus discuss the Tibetan Buddhist perspective of a healthy mind and how to transition from rumination to exploration.

In this conversation, Cortland Dahl and Raghu chat about:

• Cortland Dahl’s journey to mindfulness practice
• Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and loving the world
• Being Human, meditation, and coping with anxiety
• Embracing and Exploring the nature of our minds
• Language Immersion and translating Tibetan texts
• The story of Asanga and the Buddha Nature
• Transformation through compassionate action
• Wise-selfishness and looking at our motivations
• Turning the narrative mind into a new direction
• Gamma Oscillations and the ‘aha’ moment
• The practice of non-referential compassion
• Intersections between science and mindfulness

Links & Recommendations From this Episode:

• Raghu and Cortland talk about the book: In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• Learn more about Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche on Tergar.org
• Check out The Center for Healthy Minds and discover the fusion of science and mindfulness
• Download the Healthy Minds app for a guide to well-being
• Why We Meditate by Daniel Goleman and Tsoknyi Rinpoche

About Cortland Dahl:

Cortland is interested in exploring the interface between the body, mind and brain, and especially in the question of how various forms of meditation may help us cultivate positive qualities like mindfulness, compassion and resilience. His current work focuses on studying the psychological and neural mechanisms of different families of meditation practice. He is also the creator of the Healthy Minds program, a well-being training program that integrates insights from scientific research with a comprehensive path of contemplative training.

Cortland has an eclectic background and has spent years studying and practicing meditation in Asia, including eight years living in Tibetan refugee settlements in India and Nepal. He has published numerous collections of translations of classic works on meditation and Buddhist philosophy from the Tibetan tradition. In addition to his work with the Center, Cortland is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Tergar International, a global network of meditation groups and centers.

Learn more at hminnovations.org

“Instead of ruminating about our stressful day, we’re exploring the dynamics of our inner experience; and we just start to discover things the were always there, but we just hadn’t seen. The narrative and the conditioning just hadn’t been directed in that way.” – Cortland Dahl

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