(Aug 05, 2009 — Aug 09, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=193)
This exceptional program explores through teaching, interactive sessions, and meditation the neurological basis of social intelligence. Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) is a way of thinking about the experience of being human and how we develop well-being in our lives and the life of the world through the [...]
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(Jul 10, 2009 — Jul 12, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=280)
This retreat is for professional and family caregivers, those with life-threatening illness and those wishing to explore approaches to end-of-life care and issues related to dying and death. Participants will explore our views of pain, suffering, mortality, and freedom from suffering; perspectives on our encounter with [...]
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(May 29, 2009 — May 31, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=187)
In this weekend retreat, Dr. Wallace focuses on two methods for cultivating meditative quiescence, or shamatha. In addition to exploring the important neuroscience research being done on Dr. Wallace’s Shamatha project, he will teach, shamatha, the practice of “mindfulness of breathing”, which is an effective approach [...]
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Posted in Compassion, Tibetan Tradition on Jan 27th, 2009
Words particularly relevant in the sphere of medicne … from HH the Dalai Lama’s website dalailama.com.
“In Tibet we say that many illness can be cured by the one medicine of love and compassion. These qualities are the ultimate source of human happiness, and need for them lies at the very core of our being. Unfortunately, [...]
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As health care providers we find ourselves in a sea of pain and suffering. How do we deal with this fact? Commonly we close ourselves off to the true immensity of the suffering around us as a self-preservation tactic because we are afraid of what might happen were we to truly open. We wonder “how [...]
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From the November Annals of Internal Medicine. While not explicitly Buddhist, the 8 skills identified as “healing skills” are conspicuously compatible with (if not fully supported by) a Buddhist understanding of ethics and being in the world.
“It is well recognized that physicians’ relationships with their patients can have healing effects, but the skills in this area of [...]
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Posted in Compassion on Nov 18th, 2008
Dalai Lama speaks at Mayo Clinic
Article from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune in April: http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/17834639.html
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My topic today is the role that meditation can play in facing issues of pain, illness and death – not a pleasant topic, but an important one. Sadly, it’s only when people are face-to-face with a fatal illness that they start thinking about these issues, and often by that point it’s too late to get fully [...]
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Posted in Compassion, Death & Dying on Oct 19th, 2008
“He who attends on the sick attends on me,” declared the Buddha, exhorting his disciples on the importance of ministering to the sick. This famous statement was made by the Blessed One when he discovered a monk lying in his soiled robes, desperately ill with an acute attack of dysentery. With the help of Ananda, [...]
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Posted in Compassion on Sep 22nd, 2008
Hum Health Care Int. 1996 Apr;12(2):E12; Aung SK.
Alberta Medical Clinic, 9904 106 Street, Edmonton, AB T5K 1C4, Canada.
Loving kindness (metta), a traditional Buddhist concept, implies acting with compassion toward all sentient beings, with an awareness and appreciation of the natural world. The giving of metta, an integral part of Buddhist medicine, has the potential to [...]
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