[Buddha-l] Results of the Shamatha Project

[S.A. Feite]

After over a year of analyzing data, it looks like the results of the  
Shamatha Project will be announced with HHDL at Mind and Life 18, in  
Dharamsala. The good news is we can follow it on the web:

http://www.mindandlife.org/blog/dharamsala/

Over the next five days, for five and a half hours a day, His Holiness  
the Dalai Lama and 10 scientists, philosophers, scholars and  
contemplatives from North America, Europe and India will sit together  
in an intimate dialogue entitled: Mind and Life XVIII: Attention,  
Memory and Mind: A Synergy of Psychological, Neuroscientific, and  
Contemplative Perspectives.

Mind and Life staff members are blogging from the event. Please visit  
the blog regularly for updates as it unfolds this week: www.mindandlife.org/blog 
. You are welcome to post comments, share the blog with others, sign  
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This historic meeting is the 18th in a series of international science  
dialogues that have been organized by the Mind and Life Institute, www.mindandlife.org 
, which was co-founded by the Dalai Lama in 1987.  From very modest  
beginnings, the Mind and Life Institute has become a world leading  
organization, stimulating the scientific research on the effects of  
meditation and contemplative practice on the mind and brain and in the  
prevention and treatment of disease. These dialogues have also  
contributed toward a deep engagement between modern science and the  
world's living contemplative traditions, especially Buddhism.

Future Mind and Life dialogues are planned for Washington DC in  
October, 2009. Please visit the event web site at www.EducatingWorldCitizens.org 
; Zurich, Switzerland in April 2010 and New Delhi in November 2010.