This podcast is a talk given by Eline Snel who is a dutch therapist whose mindfulness-based methods are implemented in schools in Europe. She discusses the importance of applying mindfulness not as a way to fix schools, but to help children to learn more about themselves, particularly their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. However, she advocates that adults must have their own practice in order to teach it to children.
From the Amsterdam QS Show&Tell Meetup group: Beer van Geer (aka Universal Media Man) shows his award-winning Dagaz Project. His application uses the Neurosky EEG headset to quantify brainwaves during meditation on Mandala symbols. As you meditate you can see your progress in real-time.
Why this expert says meditating can help people in their 70s, 80s and beyond
We can’t avoid all stress in our lives, but we can prevent it from seriously affecting us. That’s the goal of “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction,” a practice developed at the University...
I never fully realized the magic of yoga until I started letting my youngest do yoga with me before bed. Without fail, she falls asleep almost immediately after doing yoga. Now that I've seen the light, I encourage all of my kids to participate in yoga. Admittedly, my type of class (vinyasa flow) isn't all that ... Read more >>
Beth Berila explores how contemplative learning, including mindfulness, can be used to incorporate anti-oppressive learning into the field of higher education. Berila illustrates how mindfulness can be used to interrupt and reframe harmful narratives about the perception of others in society at large.
This video captures a lecture from Myers to the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences on the use of biofeedback to manage meditation.
The processing of metallic mercury into the form of a mercury sulphide ash, called tsotel (btso thal), is considered the most refined pharmacological technique known in Tibetan medicine. This ash provides the base material for many of the popular “precious pills” (rin chen ril bu), which are considered essential by Tibetan physicians to treat severe diseases. Making tsotel and precious pills in Tibet’s past were rare and expensive events. The Chinese take-over of Tibet in the 1950s, followed by the successive reforms, including the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), affected the opportunities to transmit the knowledge and practice of making tsotel. In this article, I discuss two Tibetan physicians, Tenzin Chödrak (1924–2001) and Troru Tsenam (1926–2004), both of whom spent many years in Chinese prisons and labour camps, and their role in the transmission of the tsotel practice in a labour camp in 1977, contextualising these events with tsotel practices in Central and South Tibet in preceding decades. Based on two contemporary biographies, their descriptions of making tsotel will be analysed as well as the ways in which the biographies depicted these events. I argue that the ways of writing about these tsotel events in the physicians’ biographies, while silencing certain lines of knowledge transmission, established an authoritative lineage of this practice. Both physicians had a decisive impact on the continuation of the lineage and the manufacturing of tsotel and precious pills from the 1980s onwards in both India and the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
<p>The Auspicious Beauty (Bkra shis mdzes ldan) is one of the seventeen Dzokchen tantras of the Esoteric Precept (man ngag sde) Class of Atiyoga.</p>
The Blissful Mind is your guide to finding calm in the everyday
<p>A Tibetan-Chinese dictionary of medicine. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)</p>
<p>A Tibetan-Chinese dictionary of Buddhist terminology.</p>
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