A Tale of Two Movements: What Transformative and Contemplative Education Can Learn from Each Other
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ISCS 2014
Mind & Life XXIX – Session 4
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind and Life XXIX: Mapping the Mind” on April 12, 2014. Emotional Plasticity: A Healthy SocietySPEAKER: Barry Kerzin Our high-stress busy lives are out of control. Our emotions have gone wild. Anger is on the rise. Jealousy, aggressive competition, and judgmental attitudes feed on anger. Burnout runs rampant. Depression, …
Mind & Life XXIX – Session 3
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind and Life XXIX: Mapping the Mind” on April 12, 2014. Cultural Neuroscience: Connecting Culture, Brain, and GenesSPEAKER: Shinobu Kitayama Cultural neuroscience is an emerging field of research that examines the interdependencies among culture, brain, and genes, with the ultimate goal of elucidating how the mind functions in varying …
Mind & Life XXIX – Session 2
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind and Life XXIX: Mapping the Mind” on April 11, 2014. Cognitive Illusions: A Yogācāra PerspectiveSPEAKER: Jay Garfield We often take for granted that our introspective access to our own cognitive, affective and perceptual states is immediate and veridical, and that reflection on the nature of experience provides data …
Mind & Life XXIX – Session 1
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind and Life XXIX: Mapping the Mind” on April 11, 2014. Remarks by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Mind in Early BuddhismSPEAKER: Yoshiro Imaeda Mind has been one of the subjects to which Buddhism has devoted its utmost attention for the last 25 centuries. In this field, no …
Mind & Life XXVII – Session 5
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXVII: Craving, Desire and Addiction” on November 1, 2013. Day Five: Into the World Ideas have impact to the extent that they lead to action. A final thread of this narrative arc is formed by the engaged work of clinical science. Psychologist Sarah Bowen addresses new …
Mind & Life XXVII – Session 4
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXVII: Craving, Desire and Addiction” on October 31, 2013. Day Four: Contemplative Perspectives World religions have developed their own conceptions and responses to the important issues around desire. This day’s dialogue examines Buddhist and early Christian views on the nature of desire, how it becomes problematic, …
Mind & Life XXVII – Session 3
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXVII: Craving, Desire and Addiction” on October 30, 2013. Day Three: Biological and Cultural Views Much has been learned about addiction by examining its causes and effects at both individual and societal levels. In the morning session, Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug …
