Mind's Own Physician by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781608826315
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Interlude Preceding Session 4

Between the morning and midafternoon sessions, HH Dalai Lama visited the president of the United States at the White House. In this interlude, moderated by Richard Davidson, Alan Wallace offers an eloquent and incisive presentation on the Buddhist science of human flourishing, focusing on three themes: social flourishing in relation to society and the natural environment, psychological flourishing by cultivating four aspects of mental balance, and spiritual flourishing by gaining experiential insight into the nature of awareness itself. Afterward the meeting shifts to taking questions from the audience.

Richard Davidson: We have a wonderful treat this afternoon. Alan Wallace, a board member of the Mind and Life Institute, was a Buddhist monk for more than a decade before he returned to the United States and received his PhD from Stanford University in religious studies. Alan has been central to the Mind and Life Dialogues since their inception in 1987. He has also been a collaborator, a partner, a translator, and a person who has inspired, challenged, and provoked us in our research.

The monks living in the hills around Dharamsala that we initially visited when we first began this work with Francisco Varela more than a decade ago were people Alan was intimately acquainted with during his time as a monk in India. Were it not for the trust that those practitioners had in Alan as a colleague, we never would have been able to start this research. It is with a deep bow of gratitude that I introduce Alan, who will talk about the Buddhist science of human flourishing.

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