Btw, Buddhism acknowledges no distinction between heart in the sense of feeling and mind in the sense of intellect. {Buddhism's traditional claim that mind is 'seated' in the heart may still be supported via the subtle-body/ch'i physiology of classical Indian/Chinese medicine; there are ample references for this.} Maybe you originally ingested the heart-v.-mind paradigm from romantic fiction or feminist literature rather than 'New Age', although I can see that a full immersion in western popular culture is enough to make anyone struggle to see things through any other lens. However:Tanmart22 wrote:your mind and heart are one cohesive unit. And becoming better acquainted with this state was sort of the point of me starting this thread, but maybe I am asking the wrong crowd. Maybe it is more along the lines of spirituality or humanity, all though to me these are core pillars of Buddhism.
You also made a lot of claims about heart rate which Buddhism doesn't normally concern itself with, but I'd be interested to hear proof that it really is slower when we're bored or depressed than it is when we're dreaming, as you claimed it isviniketa wrote:there is very much a "bridge" between heart and mind, it exists whether we "work on it" or not, but working on it is one approach to meditation. It is very important in the practice of yoga
I didn't understand what you also said about 'the visual parts of your mind' - I was under the impression that our species' over-reliance on this this sense was a problem, and a lot of my 'spiritual path'/getting-my-head-together has supported that theory both before and after the event, even when visual sensations were tied to feelings {Actually, they used to bury feelings inside them - Not good.} Also, the electricity that scientists have confirmed as fundamental to the mind-brain complex vanishes at death, and Tibetan/Vajrayana Buddhism specifically teaches that only a 'subtle continuum' of mind survives that event. Again, you've clearly heard or read certain teachings elsewhere and now take them for granted. Maybe 'the flow of electricity' is stabilised by meditation (I would imagine the pulse is normally stabilised at any rate), but this isn't Buddhist meditation's goal, and I've certainly never heard that we should grow to understand what such changes may or may not do to our bodies. If successful, I understand that Buddhist meditation will bring about a 'more engaged state', but Buddhist practice aims higher than merely tweaking at existing patterns; I will leave this to those better-qualified than myself to explain.
FYI, 'New Age' and Buddhism are two separate religions, hence -perhaps- the disjuncture between your assumptions and, well, ours.