Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXX: Perception, Concepts, and Self” on December 16, 2015. The Self in Engagement: Perspectives from Developmental PsychologySPEAKER: Vasudevi Reddy In trying to understand the nature of self, there is often a focus on language and concepts as mediators of human experience. However, there is human experience …
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Mind & Life XXX – Session 5
Mind and Life XXX: Session FiveFilmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXX: Perception, Concepts, and Self” on December 16, 2015. The Self: What Isn’t It?SPEAKER: Jay Garfield In this presentation, Garfield describes the range of positions in Western and in Buddhist philosophy regarding the self and the person, what motivates each, and …
Mind & Life XXX – Session 4
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXX: Perception, Concepts, and Self” on December 15, 2015. Language and Mind: How the Languages We Speak Shape the Ways We ThinkSPEAKER: Lera Boroditsky Humans communicate with one another using 7,000 or so different languages, and each language differs from the next in innumerable ways. Do …
Mind & Life XXX – Session 3
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXX: Perception, Concepts, and Self” on December 15, 2015. Examining the Perception of Body Sensations: Correlating Aspects of Perceptual Processes with Mind, Self, and Basic PhysiologySPEAKER: Catherine Kerr Recent scientific findings suggest that perception of body sensations, such as a lump in the throat or a …
Mind & Life XXX – Session 2
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXX: Perception, Concepts, and Self” on December 14, 2015. Project Prakash: Merging Science and ServiceSPEAKER: Pawan Sinha All scientists harbor the hope of merging their personal desire to be good Samaritans with their professional desire to be good researchers. This aspiration to braid science and service …
Mind & Life XXX – Session 1
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXX: Perception, Concepts, and Self” on December 14, 2015. Perception, Concepts and the Self: Perspectives from Western Science and PhilosophySPEAKERS: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Richard J. Davidson & Jay Garfield We introduce the central themes of this meeting, discussing from scientific and philosophical perspectives the …
Call to Care: Extending Care
Attachment Theory and Attachment Security in Relation to Buddhist Non-Attachment
The ideal mental state, or stance, according to attachment theory and research is secure attachment or attachment security. The ideal state, or stance, according to Buddhism has been often been described as non-attachment. I will present some ideas and measures, including measures of attachment anxiety and avoidance, mindfulness, and non-attachment, in hopes of sparking theoretical …
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Fear and Trust: A Multidisciplinary Overview
This presentation will provide an overview of themes to be considered throughout this Summer Research Institute. It will begin with a consideration of fear from a psychological perspective, particularly emphasizing the process and psychophysiological correlates of threat appraisal and how this is influenced by the perception of personal coping resources (e.g., in self-concept and self …
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Concurrent Session 5 – Self, Nonself, and Silencing the Self: Dangers and Possibilities
This presentation brings Buddhist teachings on anatta to research findings based on the Silencing the Self Scale to examine central concepts of self and selflessness from Buddhist and Western psychological perspectives. Anatta, realized through meditation, insight, and teachings, is an essential aspect of the Buddha’s teaching on liberation from suffering. In contrast, selflessness, and self-silencing, …
