Insanity in Zen
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 8:45 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfR_ZkRQz3Q
Here is an interesting documentary where the filmmakers are allowed to shoot in a Zen monastery while the monks go through a period of intensive meditation called Rohatzu o-shessin.
The first insanity I'll talk about is the lack of sleep.
Scientific studies show that the mind is active during sleep. Simply the observation of rapid-eye movement is enough to prove this.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sle ... h-out-junk
The link above is a study that demonstrates the necessity of sleep in rodents. Sleeping literally cleans the brain of proteins that cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases among other things.
Here is an interesting documentary where the filmmakers are allowed to shoot in a Zen monastery while the monks go through a period of intensive meditation called Rohatzu o-shessin.
The first insanity I'll talk about is the lack of sleep.
Scientific studies show that the mind is active during sleep. Simply the observation of rapid-eye movement is enough to prove this.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sle ... h-out-junk
The link above is a study that demonstrates the necessity of sleep in rodents. Sleeping literally cleans the brain of proteins that cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases among other things.
Requiring men to stay awake for more or less 8 days straight is just idiotic, and it becomes insane if you expect them to think about difficult ideas during this time.Studying fluid flow in the brain isn’t easy. Lulu Xie in Nedergaard’s lab trained mice to sit quietly on a microscope stage while researchers probed their brains. The mice were so relaxed that they sometimes fell asleep.
When that happened, Nedergaard says, “it was almost like you opened a faucet.” While the mice slept, cerebrospinal fluid rushed into the brain’s interstitial space and washed away debris. When the mice woke up, the faucet dried up and only a trickle of fluid left the brain.