When the Dalai Lama began a dialogue with cognitive scientists in 1987 to explore how the insights gained by Buddhist contemplatives could be used to inform research and find new ways to promote human wellbeing, he could not have imagined that businesses and even the US military would one day want to harness some of those insights. That first meeting 27 years ago was attended by half a dozen scientists and two translators in the tiny audience room of his residence in Dharamsala, India. On Friday in Boston at the latest meeting of the Mind & Life Institute – the thriving organisation that grew from those discussions – about 1,700 delegates from 38 countries were in attendance.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:10:29 +0000
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