Title:
The monastery and the microscope : conversations with the Dalai Lama on mind, mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality / edited by Wendy Hasenkamp with Janna R. White.
Author:
Hasenkamp, Wendy, editor.
White, Janna R., editor.
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
©2017
Call Number:
BQ4570.S3 M66 2017
Abstract:
An illuminating record of dialogues between the Dalai Lama and some of today's most prominent scientists, philosophers, and contemplatives. In2013, during a historic six-day meeting at a Tibetan monastery in southern India, the Dalai Lama gathered with leading scientists, philosophers, and monks for in-depth discussions on the nature of reality, consciousness, and the human mind. This eye-opening book presents a record of those spirited and wide-ranging dialogues, featuring contributions from prominent scholars like Richard Davidson, Matthieu Ricard, Tania Singer, and Arthur Zajonc as they address such questions as: Does nature have a nature? Do you need a brain to be conscious? Can we change our minds and brains through meditation? Throughout, the contributors explore the exciting and sometimes surprising commonalities between Western scientific and Tibetan Buddhist methods of perceiving, investigating, and knowing. Part history, part state-of-the-field, part inspiration for the future, this book rigorously and accessibly explores what these two investigative traditions can teach each other, and what that can tell us about ourselves and the world. -- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780300218084
Physical Description:
xii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Matter and mind. Quantum physics and the nature of reality. Diving into Indra's net : quantum holism and relativity / Why the moon follows me : observation and relationality in phenomena / Silence of the noble ones : Madhyamaka on the limits of reality / Consciousness studies and the nature of mind. Essence of mind : dualism, mind body entanglement, and conscious experience / Feeling of being a brain : material correlates of consciousness / Moth's eye view : theoretical cognitive modeling / To look at the mind with the mind : Buddhist views of consciousness / Strange loop of relations : phenomenology and experience / Transformation. Neuroscience and neuroplasticity. Plastic brain : fundamentals of neuroscience and neuroplasticity / If you toss a stone into a lake : attention and emotion in the brain / I feel your pain : the social neuroscience of empathy and compassion / Contemplative practice in the world. Working skillfully with spilled milk : mindfulness in clinical psychology / Living tradition : applications of compassion training / Heart of education : learning through contemplative experience / Transformative measures : education and secular ethics / Questions and answers with five thousand monastics.
