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Presenting to His Holiness The Dalai Lama – Probably the highlight of my life...
Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama, is the leader of the exiled Tibetan government in India. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. Photographed during his visit in Cologno...
View ArticleA new contributing editor
Hello readers! My name is Emily Epstein, and I’ll be posting on behalf of Dave this summer. I am interning with him at the Functional Neuroimaging Lab. I’m a Neuroscience major at Colorado College,...
View ArticleWhy Mindfulness can help the Immune System
Stress is immunosuppressive. Research into this pernicious relationship between stress and disease has piqued interest in the ways that contemplative practices might positively influence the immune...
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Mind and Life’s Summer Research Institute 2012: A brief review
Imagine munching on oatmeal and scones, sitting on pillows, walking barefoot down quiet stony halls, and doing sun salutations with Buddhist monks, scientists, and other academics, all working towards...
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Contemplative Practices and Mental Training: Prospects for American Education
The Mind and Life Education Research Group met regularly for 4 years (2007-2011) to create a research agenda for contemplative education. A scholarly white paper manifested as a result drawing on...
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His Holiness The Dalai Lama is Coming to MIT – Oct. 14-16th
The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics is sponsoring an event with His Holiness to confront important issues of contemporary society. Check out the link [Link] or [Link] Some videos related to the talks can...
View ArticleSelf-Awareness, Self-Regulation, & Self-Transcendence (S-ART): A Framework...
Hi all, I wanted to take this space-time to introduce you to an integrative systems-based neurobiological model and theoretical framework for understanding the mechanisms by which mindfulness functions...
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Can Enlightenment be traced to specific correlates of the Brain, Cognition,...
The term “Enlightenment” is quite a big word with a lot of semantic baggage. It’s really an imprecise construct for the field of contemplative neuroscience. Friend and colleague, Jake Davis, a Buddhist...
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Vedana – Affective Feeling Tone or simply Sensation?
Hi all, I was recently having this conversation with Martine Bachelor, a Buddhist teacher and a few of my colleagues, Judson Brewer and Willoughby Britton. I thought it would be helpful to open it up...
View ArticleSpiritual Science: The Effects of Spirituality on the Brain
Spiritual Science: The Effects of Spirituality on the Brain.
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