I guess I timed my last podcast well…
New Haven Register: A Yale psychiatrist is bringing together neuroscience and Buddhist practices to help people overcome their addictions. Dr. Judson A. Brewer has conducted studies with alcoholics and cocaine addicts and now is beginning research to help people quit smoking.
The article goes on:
Addicts use their drug or substance of choice to relieve stress and tension, Brewer said, and that behavior becomes habitual. “Everybody forms habits based on their prior experiences,” Brewer said. “Those habits inform how we approach each new situation.”
This begs the question: what about being addicted to the primacy of a separate sense of self? Or to a particular viewpoint?
[Brewer] practices the Theravadan school that focuses solely on the Buddha’s teachings, rejecting traditions and beliefs added on by later branches.
Bows, Wildmind Buddhist Meditation.
