I had a remarkable experience tonight, when I received an email from the annual TED conference, and viewed a talk that it linked to. Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroscientist who experienced a stroke, and observed its progress and after effects from that perspective. But her experience transcended that of a clinician, as she experienced insights about self, immediate presence, and integration with universal forces that for me cast some ageless Buddhist teachings in a newly approachable light.

It is a fascinating and moving discourse.

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