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Day 1 - January 17 - Introduction
Morning: Exploring the Nature of Reality: Buddhist and Scientific Perspectives
(02:04:99) Intentional blink test. Results on vipassana practicants.
(02:07:59) Change blindness influenced by meditation.
(02:09:95) Subliminal image of the face.
(02:11:86) The brain is a source of both disillusion an insight.
(02:34:81) Dalai Lama' intervention: Difference between conceptual and nonconceptual conscience. Realm of thoughts.
(02:38:20) State of sleep (discussion).
Afternoon: Session: The Sweep of Science: Knowledge and the Nature of Reality
(00:02:68) Teaching science to Buddhists.
(00:13:31) Difference Between Science an Philosophy.
(00:17:43) Important features of the scientific method.
(00:21:03) Four Principle of Reality.
(00:25:22) Types of relations between two things.
(00:27:50) Forms of inferences relevant in science.
(00:28:33) Means of knowing contingent about the type of facts.
(00:31:92) Science and truth.
(00:59:44) Galileo's experiment.
(01:05:17) Galileo's experiment on the Moon. Discussion about the air on the Moon. Differences between Buddhist and western thinking on movement.
(01:17:43) Results of Galileo's experiment. Einstein thinking.
(01:19:77) Elements an structure of the Reality. The Greek four elements in the Table of the Elements.
(01:32:21) Universe.
(01:40:45) Human body as an object. William Harvey's experiment.
(01:42:79) Extention. Understanding through extension of the observation apparatus.
(01:47:55) Brain investigation in the evolution of science. Dualism.
(01:54:87) The mechanic model. Pineal gland, the place of immaterial spirit.
(01:57:26) 1600-1800: Two centuries of science that is not including mind. What is achieved and what is lost?
(01:59:76) Forms of dualism: Introspection (Wundt).
(02:02:30) Forms of dualism: Tests and tasks.
(02:03:20) Forms of dualism: Brain mapping.
Day 2 - January 18 - Physics
Morning: Quantum Physics, Relativity, and Cosmology
(00:08:80) Why is the candle light yellow?
(00:09:43) Why light can pass even is no air?
(00:13:00) A Brief Introduction to Principles of Quantum Mechanics.
(00:13:00) Identity Principle.
(00:22:74) Indistiguishability.
(00:27:69) Superposition.
(00:30:05) Quantum Holism. Indras's Net.
(00:42:56) Ambiguity.
(00:54:46) Interaction and ambiguity have major consequences.
(01:07:49) Changing the idea of understanding the world worth the idea of understanding our relation with the world.
(01:24:98) Example 1: Schrodinger's cat.
(01:34:47) Intersubjective truth. Intersubiective knowledge.
(01:37:57) Example2: Wave-Corpuscle duality without ontology.
(01:51:83) The Guided Wave Theory.
(01:57:36) Clarification 4: Particles with no intrinsic existence. Comparation with a rainbow (LeBlanc, Espagna).
(02:01:66) Rindler box experiment. Discussion about the absolute cool. Quantum vacuum.
(02:14:43) Clarification 5: Indeterminism. Disturbance in observation is uncontrollable. Causality is not applicable to quantum mechanics (Heisenberg). Indivisibility of quantum phenomena (Bohr).
(02:20:43) Conclusions: Similitudes to Buddhist philosophy. Danger of physics to absolutise materialism. Buddhist perspective on truth in relation to science.
Afternoon: The Nature of Reality
(00:01:82) Context or relationship in the Thory of Relativity. (00:03:03) Watch as archetype of classic phisycs. (00:05:25) Einstein's realism. (00:06:66) Initrinsic Propreties. (00:07:57) Galileo on primary and secondary qualities. (00:11:61) Tibetan epystemology view on proprieties. (00:18:81) World as Intrinsically Intersubjective: experience is subjective. (00:19:97) Relativity: Lenght contraction and relativity of simultaneity. Pole in barn experiment. (00:27:35) Every primary proprety is affected by the relativity.(00:30:34) Crucial significance of the viewpoint. (00:32:25) Events and processes instead of objects.(00:35:39) Implications. (00:41:64) Circling reality.
(00:46:62) What is science [in ralation with nature]? (00:49:71) What is a sciencific theory? (00:55:12) What is a interpretation of a physical theory? (01:01:63) What is quantum theory? (01:05:28) Some interpratations of the QT. (01:13:28) QT, aproblem with the Western culture.
(01:35:51) Early Budhist theory of atom: Early Abhidharma, (01:39:73) Sautrantika revision, (01:42:71) Critique of indivisible particles. (01:46:98) Madhiamaka critique of essentialism. (01:53:27) Theory of the Two Truths.
(02:06:84) Brain body related to mind in Buddhist Thought. (02:14:94) Subtile and coarse energy. The Subtile Mind does not depend on brain. (02:18:92) The ultimate purpose of Buddhism is transformation of one self. (02:21:16) Can we develop so Quantum and Madhiamaka theories to be coomon understand?(02:26:00) Respect between religions. (02:28:88) God in Buddhis theory. (02:29:74) There is a way in wich science can be a foundation to secular ethic?
Day 3 - January 19 - Neuroscience
Morning: Changing the Brain
(00:08:30) William James and the importance of muscular reaction in emotions.
(00:18:17) James Papez model of emotions.
(00:21:03) Discussion: Is capacity to regulate emotions possible only to humans? Patience test to children. Development of child brain.
(00:37:73) Neuroplastics.
(00:45:41) Networks in the brain that are important to attention. Types of attention.
(00:51:80) Thungten Jimpa about attention in Abidharma.
(00:52:47) Connection between attention and emotion.
(00:53:39) Example of how we can study the impact of meditation on emotion and attentions.
(01:05:56) Training compassion.
(01:08:11) Metacognition.
(01:09:71) Basic model of training.
(01:11:61) Different Routes in Understanding Others.
(01:17:46) The Neuroscience of Empathy and Compassion.
(01:22:38) Empathy, Compassion, Emphatic Distress.
(01:24:73) One Week Training.
(01:26:07) Discussion: How positive and negative emotions are defined in Western and Buddhist view?
(01:43:05) Dalai Lama' intervention: Empathy can not extend to your enemy but compassion can go. Empathy is related to the subject attitude, compassion no.
(01:53:20) Discussion about physicians getting no training in dealing emphatic distress.
(01:56:71) Does Buddhism know a Middle Way between empathic and distress?
(02:00:19) Compassion qualities are lost through living and have to be discovered through meditation.
Afternoon: Exploring Neuroplasticity
(00:01:88) Intelligence is measured by the IQ test.
(00:07:60) Influence of trained intelligence. Working memory.
(00:13:34) Crystallised and fluid intelligence. Clear intelligence and Penetrating intelligence (Buddhism).
(00:17:32) Persistence of negative emotions and recovery through meditation.
(00:31:98) Relation between Amygdala and some Buddhist mental states.
(00:34:40) The heart of compassion.
(00:43:25) New methods, new questions.
(00:51:06) Levels of understanding on cognition.
(00:57:39) Motivational Systems: Seeking system, Threat System, Caring System.
(01:07:76) Amygdala, Oxytocin, Trust.
(01:18:87) Mental Training and Compassion.
(01:24:87) Nature and Nurture.
(01:33:80) Neuroplasticity: its discovery and possibility.
(01:41:65) Happyness is a skill.
(01:54:59) Neuroplasticity: a Buddhist's take.
(02:04:89) Conscieusness vs 'mind and metal factors' in Buddism.
(02:10:53) Consciencious', 'mind' and 'mental factors' attributed to Buddhism: points of comparison and clarification.
(02:16:06) Composition of Sleep as a variable mental event.
Day 4 - January 20 - Consciousness
Morning: Consciousness in Western Science and Philosophy
(00:03:02) Qualia of red. First Peson Account vs Thirrth Person Account.
(00:12:68) Forms of conscousness.
(00:16:12) What do we know about counsousness?
(00:18:04) Dalai Lama: At what level apears couscousness?
(00:21:80) What do we know about counsousness?
(00:24:66) Dabate: Can be consciusness without self-consceusness?
(00:40:59) Counsciousness in bees. Panpsychism.
(00:44:87) Counsciousness in mamals.
(00:47:57) Looking for the footprins of consciousness in the brain.
(00:50:49) A theory of Counsciousness.
(00:53:33) The Integrated Information Theory of Giulio Tononi.
(00:54:99) Mesure consciusness.
(00:57:57) The context of Buddist condition.
(01:01:66) Method of speech.
(01:02:66) Cause and beginning.
(01:15:00) Exploring consciounsnees from the perspective of consciouns. The pure experience. Chunyi (is there, primary phenomena).
(01:15:00) Mesureable phenomena. Mesuring pure conscience.
(01:22:53) Inexplicable facts about counscience: Memories from previos lifes,
(01:26:96) clinical death experience,
(01:28:05) knowing ohters thoughts (moshe).
(01:48:27) Dalai Lama about the Subtile Mind and Subtile Matter.
(01:55:37) Michael Davidson: Subtile mind is magic from the point of view of Western Science.
(01:56:92) Mahtieu Ricard explains karma.
(01:57:55) Dalai Lama : We must respect others schoolar or religions thought.
(02:00:00) Tania Singer: Is pure mind related to energy? Rlung.
(02:03:91) How memory information can be carried from a life to an other?
(02:07:28) Phisical and neurogical sciences operates presoposing a material substrate for everything, while buddhist thinking cosider imaterial phenomena too.
(02:09:76) Thupten Jinpa: What is the difference between counscesness and awareness?
(02:14:53) Michael Davidson to Dalai Lama: Why science can not investigate subtile body?
(02:18:93) The role of meditation and yogic exercise in developing the subtile mind.
Afternoon: Approaches to Consciousness
(00:01:71) Visual test: Masking. Footprins of te conscience in the brain.
(00:05:26) Probing the unconscious.
(00:14:69) Many brains inside your head.
(00:22:59) Neuron response.
(00:27:25) Dalai Lama: Which come first? Neuron activity or conscious thought?
(00:30:51) Introduction.
(00:33:20) Pramana thories on mind.
(00:34:96) "I can doubth everything but not the experience itself." (Descartes)
(00:36:61) Thesis statement.
(00:40:31) We are born with grammar capcities.
(00:41:87) How our visual system is capable to recognise an infinite number of entities?
(00:42:65) Computational model of brain principle.
(00:43:38) If you can give an informational caracterisation than anything that has that caracterisation potentially had conscousness.
(00:45:38) Reasons why we don't belive in computational model.
(00:45:38) Concepts are not formal or mathematical, but they are grounded in perceptual and other bodyly capacitieas that are preconceptual. Bodily basis of conceptualisation.
(00:50:34) The Gods and the moths view of the world.
(00:53:84) Can we give a mathematical model of the Pramana theories?
(00:54:72) Conclusions and comments.
(01:01:72) Is the view that coscious experience arises from a material basis imposed by the science?
(01:07:28) Corelation is not causation.
(01:14:40) Consciousness is the starting point of an inquiry. Experience.
(01:18:10) The blindspot of the science.
(01:20:55) The strange loop between the brain and consciousness.
(01:24:79) Discussions. Validating meditative experience. Dilusion. The Zombie issue.
(02:02:75) The regulating (of emotions) function of counsciousness. The ethic issue.
Day 5 - January 21 - Applications of Contemplative Practice
Morning: Clinical and Educational Applications of Contemplative Practice
(00:14:68) The Boulder Model.
(00:15:09) Clinical approaches to psichic sufferings.
(00:15:37) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
(00:18:31) Mindfullness vs. Cognitive Therapy.
(00:20:59) Depression.
(00:27:76) Mindfull Cognitive Therapy toolbox.
(00:30:24) Levels of minfullness. Mind being hijacked by thee streem of automatic thoughts.
(00:46:01) Efect of the course on pregnant women.
(00:47:40) Clinical Reasearch Methods.
(00:58:90) Introduction. Historical background.
(01:04:54) Purpuse of education.
(01:09:66) Sustained attention.
(01:10:29) Contemplative pedagogy today. Beholding.
(01:13:27) Design Principles of Contemplative Pedagogy.
(01:16:67) The Rationale for a Contemplative Pedagogy.
(01:20:26) Minfullnes in the K-12 Education.
(01:45:21) Buddhist Approach to Ethics.
(01:47:65) Buddhist Approach to the modes of encountering afflictive emotions.
(01:57:77) Importantce of teaching on impermanence as reality.
(02:03:31) There is a lot of suffering due to human behaviour.
(02:08:97) Religions, not taken sicere, caused a lot of suffering.
(02:10:12) Missunderstood education and missused sciance also caused suffering.
(02:12:40) Only hope is proper education, not metter what religion.
(02:14:85) There is not other choice but secular ethics.
(02:15:59) We have to think at comming generations.
(02:17:47) Ultimately, problems start from the heart.
Afternoon: Promoting Human Development
(00:01:14) Presentation by Diana Chapman.
(00:03:33) Introduction.
(00:06:04) Changing the brain with contemplative practices.
(00:19:44) We have evolved to care…
(00:25:44) Commpasionate behaviours activate de reward centres of the brain.
(00:26:70) Standford Compation Cultivation Training Course
(00:32:40) Opportunities of minfullness: in schools,
(00:33:21) busyness,
(00:35:46) in prison systems.
(00:40:14) Post traumatic disorders in veterans.
(00:42:29) En Group is limited. Can we enlarge it?
(01:29:69) Presentation by Diana Chapman.
(01:31:91) Importance of context. Cultural ripple of the atomic bomb explosion.
(01:38:19) Importance of unexpected creativity.
(01:41:16) Teaching witout loosing originality. Leonard Bernstein.
(01:47:26) Can human beings really be transformed?
(01:50:43) Academy for The Love of Learning. Transformative learning.
(01:53:11) The Learning Filed enquiry.
(01:54:90) Somatic learning.
(01:56:78) Basic Leaning Practice. Informing experience rather then writing prescriptions.
(01:58:84) James R. Doty: Inhibition by fear.
(02:07:37) Aaron Stern: Problems in the public education.
(02:09:73) Geshe Ngawang Samten: Benefits of Minfulness Training.
(02:13:27) Rajesh Kasturirangan.
(02:14:97) Tania Singer: What makes compassion 'softer' then intelect?
(02:16:93) Matieu Ricard: Difference between compassion and empathy.
(02:19:99) Aaron Stern: It taks great courage to give new ideas to the world.
