The third international forum Buddhism and Medicine was held under the aegis of benevolent Sogyal Rinpoche, in his feud European Lerab Ling 2 and 3 October. The theme of the 2010 forum was "Meditation, a combined therapy for the modern world", which goes beyond our expectations for the category Psychology and Meditation, as many participants gathered in one place and a common inspiration, recognize the therapeutic value of meditation seat. Nicolas Inca, a clinical psychologist and practicing in the Western School of Meditation, covered the event for Buddhism News. This first section is devoted to presenting the forum and to echo the traditional teaching of Sogyal Rinpoche on meditation. Other articles followed, as the importance of this meeting suggests.
Event
The weather this early fall have failed to darken the mood of some eight hundred people attended the two day forum. From America North, Germany, Italy or the four corners of France, the participants - many of which half came as a health professional - have had the chance to hear any interventions leading to understanding reports have been little explored in France between medicine and Buddhist practice. Unusually, two of the meditation masters of the most recognized in the West today were present. Sogyal Rinpoche, author of the famous Tibetan Book of Life and Death and founder of Rigpa International, hosted the forum. As for Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, master female most respected, holder of the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, she went first to visit his elder in the center of Lerab Ling. In this traditional aspect joined the scientific side, equally impressive, because other players had between Jon Kabat-Zinn, inventor of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR, stress reduction through mindfulness); Clifford Sarron neuroscientist associated Center for Mind & Brain and director of Project Shamatha; or Edel Maex, psychiatrist, president of the Buddhist Union of Belgium and teaching Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT, cognitive therapy based on mindfulness).
Science and Spirituality
The reference of these days very rich was obviously the famous Mind & Life Institute , the Institute for Mind and Life, one might say if a French version was created. The now prestigious institution was in its infancy, a crazy gamble launched by the late Francisco Varela, a molecular biologist great, phenomenologist and meditation master who first proposed a dialogue between science and spirituality. His Holiness the Dalai Lama personally fascinated by Western science, therefore, received at his home in Dharamsala neuroscientists and cognitive science in the already distant year of 1987. Since then, these meetings have made their way and the Mind & Life has seen its reputation grow over the years to become a benchmark both scientific and spiritual. Sogyal Rinpoche expressed the wish to work to carry out the wishes of His Holiness, which has notably led to the creation Tenzin Gyatso Institute United States. For Europe, it took the direction of proposing a forum in France Buddhism and Medicine, now in its third edition, the previous two having covered the pain and depression. This time was especially meditation to honor, to the delight of practitioners who are engaged in a therapeutic activity, be it medical, psychological or social. Meditation as a therapeutic ally to the modern world, Francisco Varela could say about it as he did at times: "Buddhism has been waiting 2500 years to offer his treasures to the science. "
Peace of mind
According Sogyal Rinpoche, who was speaking Saturday morning at the opening of the conference, the major interest of these meetings is to allow both a greater understanding of the human mind at an experiential level, together with an academic and scientific understanding. In this particular forum curative value of the practice can see the importance, even necessity, to apply meditation in his life and work. Sogyal Rinpoche presented an education in three parts: 1 / contentment and inner peace 2 / spirit 3 / The true nature and meditation. See the first two before moving on to the third party.
According to the Buddha himself, "Contentment is the most excellent goods, Nagarjuna also adds" There's no treasure as precious as contentment. " Sogyal then reminded that happiness can not in any circumstances to be outside of oneself, because it lies in the heart and mind of everyone. This raises questions about the spirit that is ours and yet so little known. It is necessary, he would say, tame this mind, transform it, conquer it truly ours to do. The great Indian sage Shantideva compared him to a mad elephant lost in a forest of suffering. The mind is the cause of all, the universal principle ordinal, creator of samsara and nirvana , happiness and suffering. The traditions of mahamudra and Tibetan Dzogchen speak: "The samsara is outward looking mind, lost in its projections. The nirvana is the mind turned inward, recognizing its true nature. "Sogyal echoes this view when he urges the meditators to look outside but see inside. For the elephant's spirit is comfortably at home while we run the forest in search of its footsteps. Meditation has the power to bring them home.
What is meditation?
According Sogyal Rinpoche, who set the tone for the forum and enabled the scientific debate based on solid and genuine contemplative practice, meditation is a way of being with his own mind, worry a friend. "The mind wants to usual care and constantly jump from one situation to another. Then give him a hard work, meditation. "Rinpoche then distinguishes between mindfulness and awareness in English, and shamatha vipashyana Sanskrit or shiné Loading Zoom and lhaktong in Tibetan: that attention and consciousness awakening. The first form of basic practice is mental calmness, being based in a profound stillness. It is an innate state of non-distraction that makes meditation possible for anyone, anytime and anywhere. But it is necessary to move to a clearer vision, large, brilliant, which is the other aspect of the practice known as "unified" common to most Tibetan schools, shamatha-vipashyana. Then peace is not the only goal of meditation that uses the senses, thoughts and emotions as a way to come back ever further for more attention and presence. According Sogyal, through the Buddha's teaching on meditation, one can discover for yourself its true nature, which is not obscured by clouds of thoughts, but like the limitless sky that welcomes them. The thoughts are in no way a problem, but what are our thoughts about them that make us confused. It is therefore necessary to keep his mind unchanged, without manipulation. This is the crucial lesson of the great Longchenpa: "Do not tamper with that spirit which is ours / Do not enter the mind of ours." Meditate on these words, and hope that the organizers of future forums Buddhism and medicine are both inspired than this: Meditation, a combined therapy for the modern world.
Nicolas Inca
Links
Bibliography
Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Life and Death 1994
"Neuroscience and Meditation" in View No. 3, Rigpa the newspaper, in August 2009
In this picture, the speakers of the forum, with the center Sogyal Rinpoche, Khandro Rinpoche on his right and left Jon Kabat- Zinn.
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