Your brain is literally divided in two — and according to one neuroscientist, the wrong half has been running the show. In this fascinating and wide-ranging sangha share, Nick Burlin brings together cutting-edge neuroscience and 2,500-year-old Buddhist wisdom to reveal why we suffer — and why our meditation practice may be the most powerful antidote we have.

Drawing on Iain McGilchrist's landmark book The Master and His Emissary, Nick explores how the brain's two hemispheres don't just divide tasks — they create fundamentally different worlds. The left hemisphere narrows, analyzes, labels, and grasps for control. The right hemisphere opens wide, perceives wholes, dwells in the present, and knows through felt experience. Both are essential — but they're meant to work together in a very specific relationship. In mode ...