Here is some information that I share with readers of Psychology and Meditation: " 3rd Forum & Buddhism Doctor Lerab Ling, 2-3 October 2010
Who is this forum is there?
This conference is for anyone interested in meditation and health, a perspective or home: academics, doctors, therapists, health professionals, Buddhists, and of course the great public.
leading experts will present the growing evidence of the benefits of meditation on health outcomes of research collaborations between scientists, health professionals and practitioners of meditation. The
speakers include Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sharon Clifford and Frederick Rosenfeld, and Sogyal Rinpoche and Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche will present the approach and vision of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
The first day will be devoted to a detailed presentation of the results of recent research and an overview of some medical and therapeutic applications of meditation.
The second day we will explore in greater depth the various techniques of meditation and mindfulness and see how they can be used in areas such as management pain, healing, stress reduction and in the treatment of depression and various forms of addiction.
There will be times devoted to questions and discussions and you will have the opportunity to directly experience some of these methods of meditation.
Visit www.forum-meditation.com for details on the Forum:
- biographies of speakers,
- detailed program
- list of medical specialties in which meditation has proven effects,
- practical information and registration
applications and technical Meditation
During the third forum will be presented: •
traditional methods of Buddhist meditation, and Shamatha Vipashyana, in the greatest respect for Tibetan Buddhist spiritual tradition
• programs and applications of meditation in the medical and in society, including:
MBSR Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (Training Program mindfulness):
Developed by Jon Kabat Zinn in the University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA, this program is primarily intended reduction stress and physical suffering and mental in the broadest sense and takes place over eight weeks.
MBCT Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (Cognitive Therapy Mindfulness-based):
Developed in the 1990s by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams and John Teasdale, this program offers a new approach for the prevention of depressive relapse. He helped introduce Mindfulness meditation in Western psychology.
Shamatha Project:
Study conducted by Cliff Saron in collaboration with the specialist Alan Wallace and Buddhist more than 30 other scientists and researchers. This is to To date the most comprehensive interdisciplinary study on the effects of long-term intensive practice of meditation. Studied are the effects on mental and physical processes associated with fundamental cognition, motivation, emotions, physiology and health. "
A word of Psychology and Meditation:
After a very interesting exchange Demarcq with Celine, in charge of public relations Lerab Ling, I am able to provide details about the content of this two-day forum on meditation at the intersection of Buddhism and medicine. This is really a meeting at the cutting edge of what is believed and practiced in the world today, by the presence of stakeholders who are conducting research at international level.
The already well known Jon Kabat-Zinn will discuss the applications of "mindfulness," the technique of therapeutic attention after meditation. Keep in mind the defense of tradition that operating when Kabat-Zinn's mindfulness insists that does not lose sight of its origins and is not reduced to a tool for personal growth without scale, and it calls for a reversal ways of thinking. That's why I titled the first article of my column "Psychology and Meditation" Buddhism News September 2009: Healing through meditation. To a silent revolution. This is indeed the issue.
Clifford Saron, less known to the Hexagon, leads a team of researchers to evaluate the medical benefits of meditation in his organization, "Shamatha Project. Sarron is a longtime collaborator of the Mind & Life Institute, which works in conjunction with the Dalai Lama and scientists worldwide to find application of the Western Buddhist meditation. This is an opportunity to be informed of the latest project and scientific discoveries related to attention.
Others speaking will also bring their stone to the edifice, as Dr. Rosenfeld Frederick Lyons, Edel Maex or Belgium, which have an original approach to the therapeutic practice of meditation, or Dr. Cathy White who created Tonglen association to help relieve the suffering of patients, from the famous Mahayana practice.
So much for western aspect, not least, these days, but that would not be such an event without the simultaneous presence of two great masters of the Nyingma tradition, Sogyal Rinpoche received here in its stronghold of Lerab Ling Khandro Rinpoche, without probably the most recognized female llama today. It will be quite enlightening to gather their views on the use of Western meditation for his physical and psychological benefits. What is the point of view of tradition on these new approaches? How do they fit in the long history of self-knowledge and training of the mind? These two major figures of Tibetan Buddhism also give instruction on meditation and perhaps an introduction to the practice as it has been passed, which is sure to enlighten at nine what has been said by scientists Western and bring the atmosphere practice among all these debates.
These two days very full look promising. Not to be missed because it is an important appointment for the future of meditation therapy in France. I'll be there and will prepare a series of articles for Buddhism News, forthcoming in the coming year.
Nicolas D'Inca
