Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence” on October 20-21, 2011. Topic Three – Ethics and Action The Skillful Means of ActivismSPEAKER: Dekila Chungyalpa What does successful activism look like? Laws against child labor, reservation quotas for scheduled tribes and castes, protection of wildlife preserves are examples of …
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Mind & Life XXIII – Session 8
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence” on October 20-21, 2011. Topic Three – Ethics and Action A Buddhist Perspective on the Psychology of Action and Behavior ChangeSPEAKER: Thupten Jinpa The idea of transformation or change lies at the very heart of Buddhism. Traditionally, this process, characterized as …
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 7
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence” on October 20-21, 2011. Topic Three – Ethics and Action Session 7: The Psychology of Action and Behavior ChangeSPEAKER: Elke Weber The path to a sustainable human future on Earth lies in finding a balance between conflicting goals – between striving …
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 6
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence” on October 18-19, 2011. Topic Two – Ethics, Philosophy, Theology A Buddhist Perspective and Open Discussion PANELISTS:His Holiness the 14th Dalai LamaDekila ChungyalpaJohn DunneDaniel GolemanJoan Halifax RoshiThupten JinpaDiana LivermanSallie McFagueGreg NorrisClare PalmerJonathan PatzMatthieu RicardElke Weber
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 5
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence” on October 18-19, 2011. Topic Two – Ethics, Philosophy, Theology A Role for Theology – Models of God, the World, and the SelfSPEAKER: Sallie McFague “Be careful how you interpret the world. It is like that.” We live within our models, …
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 4
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence” on October 18-19, 2011. Topic Two – Ethics, Philosophy, Theology Session 4: Environmental Ethics: What is at Stake?SPEAKER: Clare Palmer How do we understand our ethical obligations when we conceive of ourselves as part of an ecosystem? Must we move beyond …
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 3
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence ” on October 17-18, 2011. Topic One – The Science Industrial Ecology: Connecting Everyday Activity to Planetary CrisisSPEAKERS: Gregory Norris, Matthieu Ricard Industrial ecology studies how human systems impact nature in a fine-grained manner, revealing with precision just how everyday operations …
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 2
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence ” on October 17-18, 2011. Topic One: The Science Interdependence Between the Environment and Our Health: Risk and OpportunitiesSPEAKER: Jonathan Patz These global disruptions raise several ethical issues that will become themes of subsequent sessions, among them: damage from global warming …
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 1
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence ” on October 17-21, 2011. Topic One – The Science Human Impact on Global Systems for Sustaining LifeSPEAKER: Diana Liverman Session 1 of “Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence”, the Mind and Life XXIII conference with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in dialogue …
