"The genius of Tulku Urgyen was that he could point out the nature of mind with precision and matter-of-factness of teaching a person how to thread a needle and could get an ordinary meditator like me to recognize that consciousness is intrinsically free of self ... I came to Tulku Urgyen yearning for the experience of self-transcendence, and in a few minutes he showed me I had no self to transcend ... Tulku Urgyen simply handed me the ability to cut through the illusion of the self directly, even in ordinary states of consciousness.  This instruction was, without question, the most important thing I have ever been explicitly taught by another human being.  It has given me a way to escape the usual tides of psychological suffering - fear, anger, shame - in an instant. "

Sam Harris

Posts tagged with 'zinc'

Zinc and depression

9th December 2014

Last year I was intrigued by a paper - "Zinc in depression: A meta-analysis" - from Toronto University's "Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group" where the authors brought together 17 relevant studies and concluded "Depression is associated with a lower concentration of zinc in peripheral blood. The pathophysiological relationships between zinc status and …

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Are dietary supplements a dangerous waste of money?

9th January 2014

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple" Oscar Wilde Being a doctor, I tend to get occasional health queries from family members. Recently my brother emailed me saying "I have been taking multivitamin supplements for a while (also fish oil). Does the (linked) article mean that I am wasting …

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