Free Webcast: Dalai Lama opens Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
May 15, 2010 by @MichelleRodulfo
Filed under Mind Wellness
Don’t miss this Free Webcast on Sunday, May 16th as the Dalai Lama marks the opening of a Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM) at The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Waisman Center.
According to the Center’s website, research will be focused on creating a world where healthy qualities of the mind flourish:
“The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, through hard-nosed basic and translational scientific research, will help to pave the way toward more widespread incorporation of methods and practices to nourish positive qualities of mind throughout society.”
According to Yahoo News, the study is being spearheaded by Richard Davidson, neuroscientist at UW-Madison and one of Time magazine’s most influential people. It will also include a diverse mix of scientists and scholars – all focused on one purpose – the health quality of the mind. Apparently the seeds for this study were planted back in 1992 during a meeting with Davidson and the Dalai Lama in India.
Yahoo News reported that “Davidson’s research has so far used brain imaging technology on Buddhist monks and other veteran practitioners of meditation to try to learn how their training affects mental health.”
Initial findings suggest that traits like compassion, empathy, kindness, happiness and attention can be improved with meditation. If this is so, the implications can mankind can be huge.
The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds will be providing a live webcast of its May 16th event with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and CIHM Director Richard J. Davidson.
The event, titled ‘Investigating Healthy Minds’ starts this Sunday at 2:15 p.m. Click here for more information about the event and for instructions on how to log into the free webcast. This historic opening ceremony is being dubbed “Change your Mind, Change the World.”
“A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
- Albert Einstein, 1921
Source: Yahoo News
Source: Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
Dalai Lama is one of the great spiritual monk among Buddhist. I have tried some Buddhist meditation techniques and I was impressed by its after effect.
I just wanted to say thank you for this valuable information.