Dialogue between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Experts from various scientific fields

Location: Kyoto, Japan
Organized in collaboration with the Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University.

Participants: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama; Richard J. Davidson; Jay L. Garfield; Roshi Joan Halifax; Yoshiro Imaeda; Atsushi Iriki; Thupten Jinpa; Barry Kerzin; Shinobu Kitayama; Shigefumi Mori; Makoto Nagao; Shinsuke Shimojo; Junko Tanaka-Matsumi; Arthur Zajonc

Description: The nature of the human mind remains one of the most profound unresolved questions we face as a species. While the mind’s ultimate nature may forever elude us, we can nonetheless carefully study the mind’s characteristics, capabilities, and associated phenomena. We have mapped the human genome, the night sky and the fundamental particles of the physical universe, yet that which is closest to us – our mind – has still to be adequately mapped. An important missing element in the study of the mind is the failure of contemporary science to critically engage with the inherited wisdom of the contemplative traditions, for example, the many insights to be found in Buddhist philosophy concerning the mind. In this Mind & Life/Kokoro dialogue, we brought together experts from the Buddhist contemplative tradition, including His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, with experts from modern psychology, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and other relevant disciplines from Japan and North America in order to comprehensively consider the nature, characteristics and operations of the mind.

Escape from Tibet documentary

A Journey into Buddhism - Ganden Monastery (Tibetan Colony in India)

How To: Remove Static / Buzzing / Background Noise in Audacity

I posted this tutorial video to save it on my blog. Hopefully, later this video will tell me how to remove the static/hiss sound from my recordings. 

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Kalu Rinpoche Nature of Mind 1987

KALU Rinpoche 1982 "The Nature of Mind" lecture 3

01/06 - Equalizing and Exchanging Our Attitudes about Self and Others - ...

Serkong Rinpoche at Caxton Hall 1982

Life of a Rinpoche

ONE DAY WITH RINPOCHE

A movie on one day with Rinpoche.

Life In Exile pt 1: Conversations with Tibetan Philosophers (1988-90)

Deep conversation with Tibetan Buddhist Masters.

Buddhist Monks Debate at Ka Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery

A monastic student shares his views on the benefit of debate based learning.

Film on Institute Of Buddhist Dialectics, Dharamsala, India

Dear Readers,



I am sharing here a video from early 1980s, which tells us how students at Tibetan Buddhist Institute in Dharamsala, India, study and practice Buddhist Contemplative studies, Philosophy and Logic.



Hope you will enjoy this video.



Geshe Lobsang Tshultrim

A World of Her Own - A personalized peaceful world

A Tibetan grandma doing her focus meditation along with mantra recitation while enjoying her tea in a traditional tea cup made of wood.

Take a closer look at this picture, what do you see? 

Each individual may have different interpretations of this picture. When I look at this picture, it reminds my grandma's life. 

By now, my mind is influenced by a long gone, pleasant events with my grandma, so I see, this grandma as well, doing her mantra recitation in a hymn style with a cat purring and an Tibetan Apso dog sleeping on each side of her.  

With her left hand, she is rolling each beads; meanwhile, she is singing the sacred mantra hymn. 

With her right hand, she is spinning the silver hammered wheel, filled with text scrolls, which is printed with millions of sacred mantras, hence she is feeling the positive energies of the mantras.
 
 With her mind, she is focusing on the mental image of a beloved and entrusted master, or meditational deity,  to whom she sees the sublime spiritual qualities and hence, she experiences the blissful state of her mind.
  
In brief, she is cultivating a positive attitude, speech and body postures, which is healing her within and toning her on the outside.

Voidness between August 2, 2010 and September 1, 2016

Guelph, Canada 2015

Dear Readers,

Hello! Sorry, I haven't been able to post any blogs in the last 6 years. Today, I am visiting my blog for the 2nd time since I started writing my original blog.  From now onward, I will continue to share my stories, pictures and videos (which I feel it is worth of sharing with my blog readers) weekly as much as possible. Hopefully, you will enjoy them.  I welcome your kind comments, questions, and of course, critical comments as well.

Thank you.
Geshe Lobsang Tshultrim

Guelph, Canada 2015