Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XVII: Contemplative Science” on October 21-23, 2010. Understanding Contemplative Practices: Yoga and Jain SPEAKERS:His Holiness the 14th Dalai LamaMuni Mahendra KumarBN GangadharShirley Telles In continuation of the morning session, this session will be dedicated to the exploration of the central practices in the Yoga and Jain …
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Mind & Life XXII – Session 3
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XVII: Contemplative Science” on October 21-23, 2010. Understanding Contemplative Practices: VedantaSPEAKERS:His Holiness the 14th Dalai LamaSwami AtmapriyanandaChakravarthi Ram-Prasad Within both Hinduism and Buddhism, numerous lineages (parampār) of contemplative practice employ a wide range of techniques to realize their spiritual goals. This session, focusing on the Advaita …
Mind & Life XXII – Session 2
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XVII: Contemplative Science” on October 21-23, 2010. Foundations for Scientific Understanding of Contemplative PracticeSPEAKERS:His Holiness the 14th Dalai LamaMatthieu RicardRichard Davidson Despite its youth, the emerging field of Contemplative Science has advanced considerably in the last decade, and many of these advancements are linked to progress …
Buddhism and Modern Science
The Importance of the Encounter with Buddhism for Modern Science (written circa 1999)
Mind & Life XVIII – Session 5
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XVIII: Attention, Memory, and Mind” on April 6-10, 2009. Embodiment and Intersubjectivity: Empirical and Phenomenological ApproachesSPEAKER: Shaun Gallagher Two themes that have become prominent in studies of consciousness and cognition: embodiment and intersubjectivity. We will begin by discussing recent work in embodied cognition, informed by both …
Mind & Life XVIII – Session 3
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XVIII: Attention, Memory, and Mind” on April 6-10, 2009. Mental Processes for Attention and Cognitive Control in Children and AdolescentsSPEAKER: Adele Diamond Attentional control, self-regulation, and inhibitory control are not immutable. They can be improved even in children as young as 4–5 years, in regular classrooms, …
Mind & Life XVIII – Session 2
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XVIII: Attention, Memory, and Mind” on April 6-10, 2009. Mental Processes Underlying Attention, Visual Perception, and Cognitive ControlSPEAKER: Anne Treisman Attention is a fuzzy concept that we try to capture in a variety of forms to study it in the lab. The main meaning is the …
Mind & Life XVIII – Session 1
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XVIII: Attention, Memory, and Mind” on April 6-10, 2009. Multi-tasking, Meditation, and Contemplative PracticeSPEAKER: David Meyer The subjective phenomena commonly experienced by novice and intermediate practitioners during Shamatha meditation and other related types of contemplative practice suggest that they may be understood in terms of theoretical …
Mind & Life XIV – Session 4
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XIV: The Universe in a Single Atom” on April 9-13, 2007. Day Four ConsciousnessSPEAKERS:Wolf SingerRichard DavidsonEvan Thompson Buddhist psychology and philosophy make strong claims about the primary of subjective experience and from this perspective, Buddhist accounts have argued that there are three fundamentally distinct features of …
Mind & Life XIV – Session 3
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XIV: The Universe in a Single Atom” on April 9-13, 2007. Day Three Evolution, Altruism and the Fundamental Nature of Human EmotionSPEAKERS:Ben ShapiroPaul EkmanRichard DavidsonMatthieu Ricard Is evolution driven by random mutation and natural selection? How can the adaptations of species best be understood? Can basic …
