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Reported by Andy Fraser
The Shamatha Project is the most comprehensive study on meditation ever conducted. Dr. Clifford Saron, who heads the team of scientists working on the...
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LiveScience Staff
The life of a Buddhist monk may seem far-removed from the busy, gadget-packed daily buzz most of us experience. But new research suggests daily medita...
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Katherine A. MacLean, Emilio Ferrer et al
The ability to focus one’s attention underlies success in many everyday tasks, but voluntary attention cannot be sustained for
extended periods...
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Kheminda Thera
The teaching of the Buddha is in essence the showing forth of the true nature of sentient existence and the proclamation of the path ot deliverance fr...
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Antoine Lutz, John D. Dunne, and Richard J. Davidson
The overall goal of this chapter is to explore the initial findings of neuroscientific research on meditation; in doing so, the chapter also suggests...
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Nyanaponika Thera
Four sublime states of mind have been taught by the Buddha:
Love or Loving-kindness (metta)
Compassion (karuna)
Sympathetic Joy (mudita)...
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Kheminda Thera (Ceylon)
There are three kind of concentration mentioned in the comentaries: "When bliss is conceived and matured it prefects the threefold concentration, tha...
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B. Alan Wallace
This essay focuses on the theme of intersubjectivity, which is central to the entire
Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It addresses the following five...
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B. Alan Wallace
The Nature and Purpose of Samatha.
Buddhist inquiry into the natural world proceeds from a radically different point of departure than western scienc...
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B. Alan Wallace
“The Nature of Mindfulness
and Its Role in Buddhist Meditation”
AW 1: Dear Bhante,
I would first like to tell you how much I respect and appreciate...
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B. Alan Wallace
Like a telescope launched into orbit beyond the distortions of the earth’s atmosphere, shamatha meditation provides a platform for exploring the...
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B. Alan Wallace
What did the Buddha really mean by “mindfulness?” B. ALAN WALLACE describes how misunderstanding the term can have implications for your...
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