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Compassion Heals: Leaning Into Our Biological Drive to Care, Connect, and Reconcile
Emiliana Simon-Thomas shares findings from a widely distributed online platform for promoting well-being (Pathway to Happiness on the Greater Good in Action website) which features several compassion-promoting practices, and discuss the opportunity for further leveraging resources like this to extend the reach of compassion strengthening resources to people with diverse backgrounds, cultural identities, beliefs, and ideological orientations.
The Senses: A Pathway to Well-being
Contemplative training promises relief from suffering. This claim lies at the heart of Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths, and it also emerges from decades of clinical intervention research. Through practices like meditation, we aspire to be liberated from restrictive patterns of mind that keep us from living more consciously. The mind, after all, is the home …
Self & Ethics: The Science of Altruism, Part 2
This presentation delves into the intersection of Buddhist philosophy and Western science regarding the nature of the self, exploring how our understanding of self-construction and interdependence influences our interactions with others and behavior in the world, advocating for the adoption of altruism as a means to enact both individual and societal change towards a more compassionate and sustainable existence.
Day 3 Discussion
This is the discussion session with the audience at the conclusion of Day 3.
Day 3 Q&A
This is a Q&A session with the audience at the conclusion of Day 3.
Day 2 Q&A with Monastics
This is a Q&A session with the audience at the conclusion of Day 2.
Examining the Perception of Body Sensations: Correlating Aspects of Perceptual Processes with Mind, Self, and Basic Physiology
In this presentation, Catherine Kerr will discuss work by her lab and others that shows how focused mental attention rapidly shapes perception of body sensations by influencing neurons in the basic somatosensory processing network in the brain.
Project Prakash: Merging Science and Service
This presentation will describe Project Prakash as a prototype of what such initiatives might look like in the confluence of a crucial humanitarian mission and a fundamental scientific quest.
Does our Perception Mirror Reality? Theories of Perception in Buddhist Epistemology
This presentation will situate Buddhist epistemology in its historical context, and focus on two points: 1) how perception is defined, and 2) how the insistence on perception being free of conceptuality raises important tensions within Buddhist epistemology, especially for the key question of how our perception and thought interact in creating an integrated cognitive experience of the world.
