Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXX: Perception, Concepts, and Self” on December 17, 2015. Self & Ethics: The Science of AltruismSPEAKER: Matthieu Ricard As we consider the views of both Buddhist philosophy and Western science on the nature of the self, what are the implications about our interactions with others, and …
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Mind & Life XXX – Session 6
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 …
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 …
Mindfulness and Racial Bias: Straight Talk with Rhonda Magee JD
Ready for some straight talk about racial bias and mindfulness? Many who examine the growth of the field of contemplative practice see it as coming only from straight, middle-class whites and corporate America. How might we work to shift that perception and to broaden the reach of our work? What practices can assist us in …
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