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Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Tricycle : Ma Moune blog by Pamela Gayle White
http://www.tricycle.com/blog/ma-moune
Aware of Assumption
It takes a conscious effort to recognize the extent we project our motives, weaknesses, and qualities on to our selves—and our pets.
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Event Report: Atheism research at the 2015 IAPR World Congress
http://blog.nsrn.net/2015/10/19/event-report-atheism-research-at-the-2015-iapr-world-congress/
Event Report: Atheism research at the 2015 IAPR World Congress
In this post, Thomas Coleman discusses the conference the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR) 2015 World Congress (17th-20th August 2015). Coleman takes us on a tour of the conference, through panels of interest to him on topics of atheism, disbelief and nonreligious mystical, or transcendent, experience.
Friday, 9 October 2015
e.Bayda: The three things we fear most
The Three Things we Fear Most
http://www.zencentersandiego.org/files/articles/tricycle2009spring_fear.pdf
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Sunday, 20 September 2015
Reports from the Sakyadhita International Conference Yogyakarta, Indonesia
http://americanbuddhistwomen.com/?utm_source=SUMMER+2015+Issue+7%2C+American+Buddhist+Women&utm_campaign=Summer+2015+Issue+ABW&utm_medium=email
Reports from the Sakyadhita International Conference Yogyakarta, Indonesia
June 23-30, 2015
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
Tricylce : Meditating with emotions
http://www.tricycle.com/practice/meditating-emotions
Meditating with Emotions
Drop the story and find the feeling.
Tuesday, 11 August 2015
Monday, 20 July 2015
The Mindfulness Craze
The Mindfulness Craze:
by Sravasti Abbeyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_v8v1nksGE&list=TLhulA8pSuRhQyMDA3MjAxNQ&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4KeeGXtsds&list=TLhulA8pSuRhQyMDA3MjAxNQ
Published on Jul 19, 2015
Clarifying how the classical Buddhist presentation of mindfulness differs from how mindfulness is taught for secular purposes.
Sunday, 19 July 2015
2015 UC Davis CMB Mindfulness Research Summit, by Clifford Saron
2015 UC Davis CMB Mindfulness Research Summit
Introduction :
Published on Jul 18, 2015
Part 1 of 12 from the May 21, 2015 UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain day-long meeting "Perspectives on Mindfulness: The Complex Role of Scientific Research" - Remarks (and performance) by CMB Director Steve Luck, PhD, Conference Chair, Clifford Saron, PhD, and Cellist Barbara Bogatin.
See http://cmbmindfulnesssummit.faculty.u... for full conference program and http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edufor links to other conference talks and other information about the Center for Mind and Brain at UC Davis.
Steven J. Luck, PhD is the Director of the Center for Mind & Brain and a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Luck’s research focuses on the intersection of vision and higher cognitive processing. His laboratory has developed methods that are now widely used to assess the capacity and precision of visual working memory, leading to an explosion of research on the structure of internal mental representations and how they vary across individuals and groups. Dr. Luck also studies neurocognitive processing in schizophrenia, where he has found many aspects of impaired cognition can be explained by changes in network dynamics that lead to an aberrant hyperfocusing of attention. Dr. Luck is also a leading expert on the use of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to measure the neural activity underlying cognition. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is the winner of many prestigious awards, including the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences.
Clifford Saron, PhD, Research Scientist (effective 7/15) at the Center for Mind and Brain and MIND Institute at the University of California at Davis, received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1999. Dr. Saron is Principal Investigator of the Shamatha Project, a longitudinal investigation of the effects of intensive meditation on physiological and psychological processes central to well-being, attention, emotion regulation and health. It was conceived with and taught by Alan Wallace, with the talents of a large consortium of researchers at UC Davis and elsewhere. In 2012, Dr. Saron and his colleagues were awarded the inaugural Templeton Prize Research Grant in honor of H.H. the Dalai Lama from the John Templeton Foundation to continue this work. Dr. Saron also studies sensory processing and integration in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and is part of a large collaborative study examining if mindfulness-based interventions can ease the chronic stress of mothers of children with ASD.
Barbara Bogatin, cellist, has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony since 1994, and holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School. Before joining the San Francisco Symphony she played with New York Chamber Soloists, the New York Philharmonic, Casals Festival, and as principal cellist with Milwaukee and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras. She has performed and recorded on Baroque cello and viola da gamba with Aston Magna, the Amati Trio, Connecticut Early Music Festival and New York’s Classical Band, and played at music festivals including Chamber Music Northwest and Lake Tahoe Summerfest. With her husband, Clifford Saron, she has led workshops on meditation and music practice at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, the Esalen Institute, Stanford Symposium for Music and the Brain, Telluride Compassion Festival and the Institute for Mindfulness South Africa Conference.
Steven J. Luck, PhD is the Director of the Center for Mind & Brain and a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Luck’s research focuses on the intersection of vision and higher cognitive processing. His laboratory has developed methods that are now widely used to assess the capacity and precision of visual working memory, leading to an explosion of research on the structure of internal mental representations and how they vary across individuals and groups. Dr. Luck also studies neurocognitive processing in schizophrenia, where he has found many aspects of impaired cognition can be explained by changes in network dynamics that lead to an aberrant hyperfocusing of attention. Dr. Luck is also a leading expert on the use of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to measure the neural activity underlying cognition. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is the winner of many prestigious awards, including the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences.
Clifford Saron, PhD, Research Scientist (effective 7/15) at the Center for Mind and Brain and MIND Institute at the University of California at Davis, received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1999. Dr. Saron is Principal Investigator of the Shamatha Project, a longitudinal investigation of the effects of intensive meditation on physiological and psychological processes central to well-being, attention, emotion regulation and health. It was conceived with and taught by Alan Wallace, with the talents of a large consortium of researchers at UC Davis and elsewhere. In 2012, Dr. Saron and his colleagues were awarded the inaugural Templeton Prize Research Grant in honor of H.H. the Dalai Lama from the John Templeton Foundation to continue this work. Dr. Saron also studies sensory processing and integration in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and is part of a large collaborative study examining if mindfulness-based interventions can ease the chronic stress of mothers of children with ASD.
Barbara Bogatin, cellist, has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony since 1994, and holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School. Before joining the San Francisco Symphony she played with New York Chamber Soloists, the New York Philharmonic, Casals Festival, and as principal cellist with Milwaukee and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras. She has performed and recorded on Baroque cello and viola da gamba with Aston Magna, the Amati Trio, Connecticut Early Music Festival and New York’s Classical Band, and played at music festivals including Chamber Music Northwest and Lake Tahoe Summerfest. With her husband, Clifford Saron, she has led workshops on meditation and music practice at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, the Esalen Institute, Stanford Symposium for Music and the Brain, Telluride Compassion Festival and the Institute for Mindfulness South Africa Conference.
Evan Thompson, PhD - Context Matters: Steps to an Embodied Cognitive Science of Mindfulness.
Published on Jul 18, 2015
Part 2 of 12. This opening talk by Evan Thompson, PhD, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia was given as part of the 2015 UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain research summit "Perspectives on Mindfulness: the Complex Role of Scientific Research" on May 21, 2015.
Robert Sharf, PhD -The “work” of religion and its role in the assessment of mindfulness practices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-mzNLf3L7U
Monday, 29 June 2015
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Trycicle : On Not Being Stingy
http://www.tricycle.com/special-section/not-being-stingy
On Not Being Stingy
On Not Being Stingy
The Eighth Zen Precept is about more than emptying your pockets.
Monday, 22 June 2015
Trauma & Contemplative Practice: Mahayana Buddhism and Trauma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqUENu4o-fM
Trauma & Contemplative Practice: Mahayana Buddhism and Trauma
Published on Jun 22, 2015
Trauma & Contemplative Practice: Exploring the Territory took place at Harvard Divinity School on May 1–2, 2015.
Saturday, 13 June 2015
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Harvard Divinity School: How Should We Train Buddhist Students to Be Chaplains?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2ahUIHp2g
How Should We Train Buddhist Students to Be Chaplains?
Published on May 19, 2015
Scholars and educators discuss how to train Buddhist students to be chaplains in religiously diverse settings. The panel took place on April 24, 2015 at "Education and Buddhist Ministry: Whither—and Why?", a conference hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Buddhist Ministry Initiative.
The conference was funded by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.
00:00 Welcome and introductions by Chris Berlin, Counselor to Buddhist Students and Instructor in Ministry, Harvard Divinity School
10:53 Rev. Koshin Paley Ellison, New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
23:37 Ven. Myeongbeop Sunim, Nungin University of Buddhism, South Korea
32:50 Joshin Brian Byrnes, Upaya Zen Center
42:33 Victor Gabriel, University of the West
53:46 Q&A moderated by Chris Berlin
Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at www.hds.harvard.edu.
The conference was funded by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.
00:00 Welcome and introductions by Chris Berlin, Counselor to Buddhist Students and Instructor in Ministry, Harvard Divinity School
10:53 Rev. Koshin Paley Ellison, New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
23:37 Ven. Myeongbeop Sunim, Nungin University of Buddhism, South Korea
32:50 Joshin Brian Byrnes, Upaya Zen Center
42:33 Victor Gabriel, University of the West
53:46 Q&A moderated by Chris Berlin
Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at www.hds.harvard.edu.
Thursday, 14 May 2015
Tricycle: What's Ethics Got to Do with It? The misguided debate about mindfulness and morality
http://www.tricycle.com/blog/whats-ethics-got-do-it
May 14, 2015
What's Ethics Got to Do with It?
The misguided debate about mindfulness and morality
Monday, 11 May 2015
AfB Spring Newsletter
-----Original Message-----
From: Alliance for Bhikkhunis
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015 7:07 PM
Subject: AfB Spring Newsletter
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http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d081c03c356665756e3a8ac94&id=18db371850&e=bd165d4899
Both exciting and difficult times in the life of bhikkhunis across the globe Since our newsletter last autumn, a lot has been happening with us here at AfB.
* We are moving forward with a comprehensive listing of bhikkhunis and bhikkhuni monasteries with volunteers from our wonderful supporters offering to help.
* We are continuing to support bhikkhunis and monasteries with financial support.
* Thanks to you! - Our fund raising activity continues to be strong, especially toward the latest disaster in Nepal by distributing funds to DhammaMoli.
Dhamma Moli (http://www.dhammamoli.org/index.htm) is a Buddhist project
based in Nepal that provides shelter and education to young Nepalese girls
at risk of falling victim to human traffickers who will sell them to
brothels in India. We were asked by supporters of AfB to help channel monies
for their assistance after the terrible earthquake there. As of this
writing, events continue to unfold there. We hope to bring you more about
this in our next newsletter.
The following is our annual fiscal year financial report, prepared by our
treasurer, Donna McCarthy.
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Financial Report - Fiscal Year April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015
As this fiscal year came to a close, we looked back with much gratitude for
the very generous support Alliance for Bhikkhunis has received during the
past year.
This has been an unusual and exciting year for us. We received an
unprecedented $27,724 in donations! Of that, a very special anonymous
donation of $15,000 came from a very generous woman who was about to ‘take
robes’. Another large donation of $4700 was from a woman who wanted to add
to the medical fund for North American monastics. Once again, for the third
year, we received a donation of $1542 (£1000) from an anonymous donor
through the Camellia Foundation in the UK. Another generous donor gave $1000
for the Vibhanga Translation Project. Two others each donated $500, and
there were many other generous donations. While our donations come mainly
from the US, we receive many generous donations from all over the world.
This year we received donations from the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Sweden,
Canada, Germany and Sri Lanka.
With these funds are very pleased to have been able to support numerous
projects at monasteries and viharas, as well as the needs of individual
bhikkhunis. To see where your donations have gone please see our
website:http://www.bhikkhuni.net/projects-funded-2014/ and
http://www.bhikkhuni.net/projects-funded-2015/.
AfB is an all-volunteer organization. Only 2% of funds go to administrative
costs; 98% of the funds raised go directly to support of the bhikkhunis. A
pretty good record for a charity! (Administrative costs are items like PO
Box rental, website charges, printing Thank You cards and a number of wire
transfer fees.)
Where did our expenditures go?
* 43.4% went to North American monasteries, viharas or bhikkhunis
* 27.2% supported healthcare premiums for North American bhikkhunis (NABA)
* 27.4% to Overseas monasteries or bhikkhunis
* 2% for administrative costs
As the Four-fold Sangha grows worldwide, we have been expanding our
donations to these emerging sanghas. This year our overseas donations went
to monasteries or bhikkhunis in: Australia (4), Sri Lanka (2), Thailand (1),
Czech Republic (1), and Bangladesh (3 nuns.) .
Two of our fundraising efforts had been especially successful: 1) meeting
Pavarana requests (http://www.bhikkhuni.net/project-2/) posted on our
website and 2) International Bhikkhuni Day
(http://www.bhikkhuni.net/4th-international-bhikkhuni-day/) .
Through the efforts of our former Pavarana Coordinator, Mindy Zlotnick, and
our current Coordinator, Gwen Jones, we have offered a ‘Pavarana’ to
bhikkhunis, an invitation to make it possible for them to let us know of
their needs. Thanks to the talents of our web designer, Helen Geld, we have
posted those requests on our website
http://www.bhikkhuni.net/projects-2/project-requests/. This has resulted in
raising $6242 for specified needs!! (Excluding the $15K donation, this was
62% of our total $10,064 donations.) The Pavarana concept has been a great
success! Your continued support of this concept will be much appreciated!
Please check out the link above for current needs.
Another source of funding has been our annual International Bhikkhuni Day,
started by our founder, Susan Pembroke and an original board member,
Jacqueline Kramer, and held every fall. This year we raised a little over
$500 from events around the world and related donations.
We are extremely grateful for your continued donations. With your support
and donations (http://www.bhikkhuni.net/dana-offerings/) , the bhikkhuni
sangha around the world is growing!
Anumodana!
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Finally, we invite you to take a look at some of our most recent articles on
our web page:
* Interview with AfB President Michael Bratton by Brenna Artinger
(http://www.bhikkhuni.net/a-path-to-mindful-service/)
* Interview With Venerable Bhikkhuni Thanasanti by Brenna Artinger
(http://www.bhikkhuni.net/we-are-in-this-together/)
* You Just Need To Be Hungry:
(http://www.bhikkhuni.net/2014/12/31/ayya-jayati/) An article and interview
of recently ordained Ayya Jayati Bikkhuni by Margo Mallar
Thank you for your support of the bhikkhuni sangha. Together we are making a
diference!
Michael Bratton
President, Alliance for Bhikkhunis
Photo by Michael Bratton
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Thursday, 7 May 2015
HuffPost: The Future of Buddhism: Race, Money, Mindfulness and the World
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yael-shy/the-future-of-buddhism_b_7225290.html
The Future of Buddhism: Race, Money, Mindfulness and the World
by Yael Shy
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Nytimes: The Muddied Meaning of 'Mindfulness'
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/the-muddied-meaning-of-mindfulness.html?smid=fb-share
April 14, 2015, by Virginia Effernan
The Muddied Meaning of 'Mindfulness'
April 14, 2015, by Virginia Effernan
Saturday, 11 April 2015
How a skeptical anchorman became a Buddhist, Dan Harris
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/10/living/harris-anchorman-buddhist/
How a skeptical anchorman became a Buddhist
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