Meditation

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I spent yesterday at the Being Human conference (it bears no relationship to the excellent BBC show about a ghost, vampire, and werewolf who share a flat in Bristol), an all-day event at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. via flickr While I posted a few pictures yesterday, I didn't really write about it in any depth, because the wifi managed to fail during the opening remarks, and I never got on the network. Otherwise, I must say that the whole event was beautifully organized-- and as someone who's planned and participated in a lot of conferences, I know what I'm talking about. The overall theme of the conference, "Being Human," was interpreted largely in terms of our scientific understanding of perception, body schema, decision-making, and how we come to experience the world and consciousness as transparent, seamless things.

Contemplative Computing

Par Rémi Sussan le 15/07/11 | 3 commentaires | 3,512 lectures | Impression Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, du Peace Innovation Lab à Stanford et du Groupe d’étude des systèmes sociaux numériques de Microsoft Labs , a débuté son intervention à la conférence Lift en nous suggérant une petite activité : “consultez vos e-mails” a-t-il demandé, “vous allez le faire de toute façon” . Mais il nous a demandé d’observer notre comportement à ce moment : il semble en effet qu’en majorité, les internautes retiennent leur respiration au moment de cette consultation. Ce qui a pour conséquence d’augmenter notre CO² dans le sang et donc notre sensation d’anxiété. Voilà pour lui un exemple de la manière dont les technologies modernes provoquent des stress. Image : Alex Soojung-Kim Pang sur la scène de Lift, photographié par Swannyyy .

Vers une informatique contemplative ? « InternetActu.net

http://www.internetactu.net/2011/07/15/vers-une-une-informatique-contemplative/

http://www.jesuites.com/spiritualite/intro01.htm

Petite introduction à la spiritualité ignatienne

Pour raconter ce qu'est la spiritualité ignatienne, ou, mieux encore, vous introduire ne serait-ce que durant quelques écrans à une expérience spirituelle semblable à celle que vivent de nombreux chrétiens aujourd'hui, il faut vous transporter sur les remparts de Pampelune en 1521. La forteresse, attaquée par les troupes françaises, est sur le point de se rendre lorsqu'un homme de trente ans, Ignace de Loyola, réussit à persuader tous les chevaliers de se défendre malgré tout. Mais un boulet de canon français brise la jambe d'Ignace et l'enthousiasme des combattants. Tous se rendent aussitôt aux Français. Les vainqueurs traitèrent le blessé de manière courtoise et amicale, le reconduisant chez lui, à Loyola.

We continue with the transcribed lecture delivered in June of 2011 By Rachel Armstrong in the Hay on Wye Philosophy & Music Festival on Synthetic Biology & Architecture - Making 'Life' in the Laboratory. We will be following our normal protocol of posting Dr. Armstrong's words in italics and any annotations we use in regular font with color . I am using active chemistries that actually respond to the environment in real time in a way that is living. I will show these to you rather than keep telling you how life-like they are. So they do actually exhibit the characteristics of living systems.

Rachel Armstrong, Architecture & Synthetic Biology 3 | Plus Ultra Technologies/30 steps

http://www.plusultratech.com/2011/09/rachel-armstrong-architecture-synthetic_09.html#ixzz1XUIdIB00

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Mindfulness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation

Buddhist meditation refers to the meditative practices associated with the religion and philosophy of Buddhism. Core meditation techniques have been preserved in ancient Buddhist texts and have proliferated and diversified through teacher-student transmissions. Buddhists pursue meditation as part of the path toward Enlightenment and Nirvana . [ 1 ] The closest words for meditation in the classical languages of Buddhism are bhāvanā [ 2 ] and jhāna / dhyāna . [ 3 ] Buddhist meditation techniques have become increasingly popular in the wider world, with many non-Buddhists taking them up for a variety of reasons. Buddhist meditation encompasses a variety of meditation techniques that aim to develop mindfulness , concentration , supramundane powers , tranquility , and insight .

Buddhist meditation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Méditation bouddhique - Wikipédia

Le Bouddha Shâkyamouni en méditation. La méditation bouddhique , méditation théorisée et pratiquée dans le bouddhisme , diffère radicalement de la méditation dans son acception occidentale. Son but ultime est l'atteinte du nirvāna . Le mot le plus proche pour « méditation » dans les langues classiques du bouddhisme est bhavana , qui signifie « développement mental ». La méditation bouddhique correspond toujours à une pratique posturale, mentale, relaxante et rigoureuse.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9ditation_bouddhique

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%E1%B8%A5kha

Duḥkha - Wikipédia

Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Le dukkha (Pāli; Sanskrit: duḥkha) est un concept central du bouddhisme . Intraduisible en français, certains mots peuvent s'en rapprocher : souffrance, chagrin, affliction, douleur, anxiété, insatisfaction, inconfort, angoisse, tension, malheur et aversion.

Research on meditation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation

Scenes of Inner Taksang, temple hall, built just above the cave where Padmasambhava meditated Research on the processes and effects of meditation is a growing subfield of neurological research. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Modern scientific techniques and instruments, such as fMRI and EEG , have been used to see what happens in the body of people when they meditate and its effects in the long run. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Meditation changes the brain. [ 11 ] These studies have shown substantial bodily changes as a consequence of regular meditative practice, including growth in regions of the brain activated according to the style of meditation, regions involved with compassion and understanding others, being mindfully aware, sustaining focus on a single object for a long period, and others. Meditation is similar to learning other skills like how to ride a bike or play the piano. [ 12 ]

This past August, more than 50 people gathered in the Circle of the Way temple at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to explore the connection between neuroscience and meditation. This is the fourth year we have done so. Why?