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The Time is Now for Whole Student Education
A Critical Dialogue with The Dalai Lama and Leading Scientists and Education Experts Mind & Life Institute Dialogue to be Livestreamed from Dharamsala, India, March 12-16 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, March 6, 2018 — From March 12-16, His Holiness the 14th Dalai...
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Faculty Announced for 2018 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute
The 2018 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute, June 2-8 in Garrison, New York, brings together a diverse group of contemplatives, scholars, and scientists to explore the theme “Engaging Cultural Difference and Human Diversity.” The weeklong immersive program will examine...
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The biennial International Symposium for Contemplative Research (ISCR), convened by the Mind & Life Institute, will be held November 8-11, 2018 at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass outside Phoenix, Arizona. The Call for Abstracts is now open until...
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Open Access to Research on the Human Mind and Contemplative Practices
The Mind & Life Institute launches MindRxiv, a free preprint server sharing research in the contemplative sciences CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, August 29, 2017 — At a time when it seems like almost all information is available at the touch of a...
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Dalai Lama unable to attend Mind & Life Dialogue in Botswana
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, USA, 11 August 2017 — The Private Office of the 14th Dalai Lama informed the Mind & Life Institute today that due to health reasons, His Holiness is unable to travel to Botswana. The Mind & Life Dialogue will continue...
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Two Varela Grantees find converging results about mindfulness and pain The latest statistics about America’s opioid epidemic are staggering. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimate an average of 125 deaths from opioid overdoses per day in the United States—that...
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Meditation and Science: Ten Essays Worth Reading
Meditation, Buddhism, and Science Edited by David L. McMahan and Erik Braun Oxford University Press, 2017 272 pages; $24.95 Scientific research on meditation, and as a consequence the popular discourse on contemplative research, has to-date largely focused on the individual....
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Sharon Salzberg: Love is a Verb
Paying attention, asserts famed meditation teacher, best-selling author, and Mind & Life Fellow Sharon Salzberg, isn’t a skill one is simply born with. Like flexibility and physical stamina, it’s developed over time: a muscle to strengthen; a practice to nurture;...
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To Change the World, Start with How We Educate Children
Since early adolescence, I have carried a deep conviction that we all have the capacity to grow in ways that far exceed our imagination. At 22, when most of my friends had accepted high paying jobs after college, I opted...
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Preventing Racial Bias in the Classroom: What One Researcher Hopes to Learn
Racial bias exists in many domains of our society, including the classroom where teachers’ hidden biases can lead to diminished expectations for students of color. Doris Chang, Ph.D. is Director of Clinical Training and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the...
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