What is the subtle relationship between mind and body? What can today's scientists learn about this relationship from masters of Buddhist thought? Is it possible that by combining Western and Eastern approaches, we can reach a new understanding of the nature of the mind, the human potential for growth, the possibilities for mental and physical health? MindScience explores these and other questions as it documents the beginning of an historic dialogue between modern science and Buddhism, based on a day-long Harvard Medical School symposium in which The Harvard Mind Science Symposium brought together the Dalai Lama and authorities from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, and education. Here, they examine myriad questions concerning the nature of the mind and its relationship to the body.
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What is the subtle relationship between mind and body? What can today's scientists learn about this relationship from masters of Buddhist thought? Is it possible that by combining Western and Eastern approaches, we can reach a new understanding of the nature of the mind, the human potential for growth, the possibilities for men6tal and physical health? MindScience explores these and other questions as it documents the beginning of an historic dialogue between modern science and Buddhism. Based on a day-long Harvard Medical School symposium in which His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other Indo-Tibetan scholars met with leading authorities from the fields of medicine, psychiatry, psychology, psychobiology, neurobiology, and education, MindScience offers important new insights into the workings of perception, cognition, and the mind/body connection.
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This is an interesting, slim little volume, basically a transcript of the MindScience symposium held at Harvard University years ago, featuring the Dalai Lama and a slew of top-tier Harvard neuroscientists. There are some great neuroscience-Buddhism dialogues recorded here, as well as some interesting lectures by the various scientists who participated. Some go over what was, at the time, cutting edge research on the physiological side of meditation, others hit on the philosophy of mind and so on. Robert Thurman (ever present at these types of things) gives a provocative but overall, I felt, rather incoherent talk on the possibly physiological aspects of tantra and higher forms of meditation.
Overall it's a fairly superficial look at all these processes and questions, but then it was only a couple of days' conference! This kind of dialogue is, I think, absolutely essential, and this book will give you a little window on what is being discussed by some great thinkers of our time, if you can't get down to Harvard or the Mind and Life conferences yourself. Worth a look.
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Very interesting and it is a great door opener to the world of Buddhism, meditation and mind science
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- The Central Philosophy of Tibet by Robert A.F. Thurman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Philosophies of India by Heinrich Robert Zimmer on page 105, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson on page 106, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud on page 99, and Back Matter
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- Buddhist Psychology: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought by Geshe Tashi Tsering in Back Matter
- The Meaning of Life by The Dalai Lama in Back Matter
- Buddha's Nature: A Practical Guide to Discovering Your Place in the Cosmos by Wes Nisker in Back Matter
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between by Padma Sambhava in Back Matter
- Transforming Problems into Happiness by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Back Matter
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