Ken Bradford - Two Kinds of Intelligence
Drawing upon Buddhist wisdom & radical Existential insight, 2 kinds of intelligence can be distinguished. The everyday, calculating kind gets things done, but at a price. The price of striving in the world entrances us in dualistic vision, restricting awareness to our capabilities as human doings. There is another kind of intelligence: meditative, open-ended and arising in Rumi’s words, “as a freshness in the center of the chest.” This second kind of intelligence is a natural fount of resilient openness, intrinsic to the being of human being.
Bio- Ken Bradford is a contemplative yogin, author and Dharma teacher integrating a wide arc of Buddhist, Dzogchen and psychological thought and practice. His heart teachers include Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, Joseph Goldstein, Ruth Denison and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, among others. Formerly, he maintained a psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay area and was Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University and CIIS. His publications include Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-liberation (2021); The I of the Other: Mindfulness-Based Diagnosis & the Question of Sanity (2013); and Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Vol. 2 (2007, with John Prendergast); as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles intertwining psychology and spirituality. Website: www.authenticpresence.net
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