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 …
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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 …
The Pharmacy of Desire
An American success story: A college graduate gets a good job and marries. The couple drives a beautiful car, a consolation for their terrible commute. Work pays well but requires callous decisions. Expensive vacations and a lovely home recompense for the sacrifice not only of time, but also of ideals. Contentment, however, remains elusive; an …
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 …
Mind & Life XXVII – Session 2
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXVII: Craving, Desire and Addiction” on October 29, 2013. Day Two: Cognitive and Buddhist Theory Cognitive neuroscientist Kent Berridge begins the day with an exploration of the neural circuitry underlying the experience of wanting, and a description of how this can be studied scientifically. He then …
Mind & Life XXVII – Session 1
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXVII: Craving, Desire and Addiction” on October 28, 2013. Day One: The Problem of Craving and Addiction The program begins with introductory remarks by former Mind and Life President Arthur Zajonc, as well as His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Moderators Richard Davidson and Diana Chapman Walsh …
Meditation: It’s Not What You Think
Think you can’t meditate? Mind & Life’s resident neuroscientist explores some popular misconceptions surrounding meditation, and reasons to keep trying.
Arming Introspection
Does meditation make a more ethical soldier, or a more dangerous one?
