Comments on: Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight

By: Srini

Srini — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:23:10 +0000

//we all are one//

By: abha

abha — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:29:40 +0000

It definitely must be an incredible experience.
thanks to Jill for sharing it. we all are one. How we are in this world is something that probably is not of a very serious consequence.
if we are in every moment, the life is a song.

By: Srini

Srini — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:49:07 +0000

Nimi, thanks for your insights.

Nirvana is not ultimate good, it is beyond both good and bad, right and wrong, indeed all opposites. Nirvana is beyond both mind and body, time and space, birth and death.

That put things in perspective. Thank you.

By: Nimi

Nimi — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:21:08 +0000

I’m sorry but she has not discovered Nirvana. I think peole use words like ‘nirvana’, ‘enlightenment’ and ‘inter-connectedness’ to freely.

Please don’t misinterpret these sentiments, she has clearly found something very exciting and good, but it is not enlightenment. What happened to her was conditioned by a physical malfunction.

Nirvana is the unconditioned element. It is not an ‘experience’ at all. It does not arise and pass away. it cannot be brought about through a stroke, labotomy, meditation or any other activity. It is simply the realisation of the true nature of reality; the ever-present here and now.

Nirvana is not ultimate good, it is beyond both good and bad, right and wrong, indeed all opposites. Nirvana is beyond both mind and body, time and space, birth and death.

What she has discovered is what anyone who practises calming meditation finds. You can temporarily shut down the chatter of perpetual self confirmation and enjoy a real sense of unity and belonging. However, that ’sense’ is temporary and therefore needs to be constantly remade. How can that ever be permanent freedom from suffering?

However, the realisation of true and full enlightenment - non duality - is not temporary. It does not have to be remade, it is infinite and eternal peace through non-clining. What she offers is wonderful, but is not the final answer.

Thank You

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By: Joyce

Joyce — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:49:13 +0000

MY STROKE OF INSIGHT was ranked #5 in all books sold on Amazon today and #1 in Memoirs above even Barbara Walters’ memoir. Babs had been promoting her book for months in advance and Dr. Taylor’s book was self-published.

Then Oprah recommended it. There’s the Power of Now, and then there’s the Power of Oprah!!

“My Stroke of Insight” is out in Hardcover now for less than the old paperback edition. Amazon has it for 40% off.

By: John

John — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:10:34 +0000

Thank you for that. Jill Bolte Taylor’s My Stroke of Insight is one of the most incredible stories I’ve heard in a long time. Her TEDTalk video blew my mind wide open to new possibilities. On the one hand, there’s what she went through and how she emerged from it. On the other hand, there’s what she can teach all of us.
I saw the 4 part Oprah interview on Oprah dot com Soul Series and I did learn a lot from that, but I’d like to find our more of how to do what Dr. Taylor did, without having a stroke of course!
Thin how many of us are living too much in the head, and not the heart. And of course, you can’t get more left brain than a Harvard Brain Scientist. Isn’t it ironic that she should be the one to have the stroke and transform from the quintessential left brainer into this “”seen the light”" disciple of finding inner peace?
I hope this movement keeps going. Maybe there will be My Stroke of Insight classes where we can practice what Jill Bolte Taylor is preaching.