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As we prepare for the upcoming Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination
conference, held virtually October 17-18, we invited our speakers to sit with the same
two questions to showcase the variety of perspectives, inquiries, and ways of knowing
that will shape our conversations at the conference this fall.
Emptiness, a fundamental teaching in Mahayana Buddhism, might feel like a tough idea to chew on. It’s an insight that can feel more sobering than soothing at times, and it’s no stranger to misinterpretation.
The Garrison Institute and the Yale Forum on...
What if the darkest corners of ourselves, the places we most want to avoid, are actually lighting a path to greater freedom?
Not every challenge in medicine has a clinical solution. Illness, grief, uncertainty, and loss all ask something of clinicians that extends beyond their ability to diagnose and treat: the capacity to be present in the face of suffering.
The environmental crisis is often described in the language of science, economics, or public policy. Less frequently do we ask what kind of mind produces a civilization capable of destabilizing the ecological systems upon which it depends.
When I don’t want to lose contact with my feelings, with the intelligence of my lived experiences, and to remain sensuous and alive in the face of tyranny, I return to Audre Lorde’s writings—a poem, an essay, a speech, an interview—to ground and water myself.
Daniel Goleman joins Jonathan F.P. Rose for a conversation on emotional intelligence, contemplative practice, leadership, and the inner capacities that support collective wellbeing.
A reflection on The Common Good podcast conversation with Rebecca Henderson and Jamie Bristow about mindful leadership, business education, love, power, and systems change.
Somatic Experiencing® practitioner and meditation instructor Kathy Cherry’s retreat at Garrison Institute this week, “Beyond Calm: The Intelligence of Presence” engages somatic work, a growing field that focuses on the connection between the physical body and mental health. Kathy sat down with us to answer some questions for readers curious to learn more about this innovative field and her work within it.
Few academic gatherings bring together the rigor of scientific inquiry and the depth of contemplative practice as successfully as the Mind & Life Summer Research Institute (SRI), which took place June 7-12 at the Garrison Institute. Since its founding in 2004, SRI has been a driving force in the development of the field of contemplative science. Now in its third decade, SRI continues to convene leading researchers and contemplatives to explore some of the most pressing questions at the intersection of mind, human flourishing, and social transformation.
We think of June as the height of spring, but...