Вокруг встреч ЕСДЛ с учеными.

The questions we address include: What measurable changes in attentional ability occur as a function of intensive meditation training? What are the neural correlates of these changes and the range of their consequences? Is it true, as Buddhist contemplatives claim, that improvements in the voluntary control of attention and associated improvements in attention systems in the brain make it easier to recognize and overcome negative emotions, maintain resilience in the face of stress, and improve relationships with other people? Do the changes persist after meditation trainees return from the retreat experience to the cacophony of everyday life in a modern society?

Я напоминаю об этих деньгах как раз с той целью, что такие деньги кому попало не дают.   Более того, он не методы разрабатывает, а применяет уже известные. Ретриты (как я понял) "Settling the body in the natural state", "Settling the mind in the natural state".

B. Alan Wallace is president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. He trained for many years as a monk in Buddhist monasteries in India and Switzerland. He has taught Buddhist theory and practice in Europe and America since 1976 and has served as interpreter for numerous Tibetan scholars and contemplatives, including H. H. the Dalai Lama. After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied physics and the philosophy of science, he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in religious studies at Stanford University. He has edited, translated, authored, and contributed to more than thirty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture, and the interface between science and religion.

His published works include Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind (Snow Lion, 1996), The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness (Oxford, 2000), Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground (Columbia University Press 2003), Balancing the Mind: A Tibetan Buddhist Approach to Refining Attention (Snow Lion, 2005), Genuine Happiness: Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind (Wisdom 2006), and Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge (Columbia University Press, 2007).

"I am delighted at the progress being made in developing the Shamatha Project, a scientific study designed to examine the effects of long-term, intensive practice of shamatha together with the four immeasurable qualities of loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity. I believe this research project has the potential to be of significant benefit for advancing scientific understanding of the effects of meditation on attention and emotional regulation, as well as in showing that traditional Buddhist meditative practices can be extremely effective in alleviating the inner causes of suffering and bringing forth the potentials of human consciousness in today's world."

Не человек "прогибается" под вечные ценности традиции,

а традиция умаляется до человека и забыв на время свои вечные ценности, просто помогает ему здесь-и-теперь избавиться от его конкретных бобошек (включая онкологию!).

Технику внимательности в качестве поддерживающей терапии используют, например, в сиднейском городском онкоцентре

Лучшие больницы от Stanford до Duke убеждены: они ввели медитационные программы для пациентов, страдающих от хронических болей и других болезней

Mindfulness Meditation Course

The Mindfulness Program in the Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine Clinic is designed to teach mind and body awareness techniques for coping with physical or psychological symptoms from stress and stress-related illnesses. By learning relaxation and awareness techniques, including mindful yoga and body movement, participants are taught to use their inner resources to relieve stress and manage pain more effectively. The Mindfulness Program was initiated 20 years ago at the University of Massachusetts by John Kabat-Zinn, PhD, who was featured on Bill Moyer's PBS series and book, Healing and the Mind.

The majority of participants who complete the program report these benefits:
Decreased physical and psychological symptoms
Increased ability to cope with stressful situations
Improved self-esteem
Greater enthusiasm for life
Greater energy
Improved pain levels or coping with chronic pain

The program can help complement care of the following:
Anxiety and panic disorders
Headaches/chronic pain
Sleep disturbance
Job and family stress
Type A behavior
Heart disease
Cancer/AIDS
Fatigue/depression
Arthritis
Gastrointestinal disorders

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

The MBSR program at Duke Integrative Medicine is based on the national model developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Our participants are strongly encouraged to obtain Jon’s book Full Catastrophe Living to support their success in MBSR.

The NCCAM is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the Department of Health and Human Services of the federal government of the United States. The NIH is one of eight agencies under the Public Health Service (PHS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

     There will be a death if there is a birth. Similarly, there probably will be a birth if there is a death. If we know only the death of human beings without comparative knowledge about birth, the understanding of life and death of human beings will be incomplete. The Yogacarabhumi Sutra of Buddhism is a written documentation that has unimaginable detailed description about the fertilization of ova and the further development of embryo in the uterus of the mother. By comparing the descriptions in the Yogacarabhumi Sutra of Buddhism and the texts of modern embryology, we found that though a little macroscopic, the descriptions in the Yogacarabhumi Sutra of Buddhism are rather detailed and correct as judged by the standard of medical science at that time. The Yogacarabhumi Sutra of Buddhism can be viewed as the beginning of modern human embryology; it can even be viewed as the first classic book on human embryology in history. It was really incredible that Shakyamuni could make such detailed eye-witness observation and description on the development of human embryo without using any instrument. Since Shakyamuni lived earlier than Aristotle and since he had made more correct and detailed descriptions about the formation and development of human embryo than Aristotle, Shakyamuni should be the first or father of human embryology, and the Yogacarabhumi Sutra of Buddhism should be the first book on human embryology in history.

Keywords: embryo, development, embryology, Yogacarabhumi sutra, Aristotle, Shakyamuni