Skymind and Shadow: Illuminating Reality with a Vast Mind
What if the darkest corners of ourselves, the places we most want to avoid, are actually lighting a path to greater freedom?
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Accompanying Suffering: The Science Behind Contemplative Care
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.
Contemplative Ecology, Get Inspired, Pathways to Planetary Health, Philosophical & Psychological, Read, Resources & Reflections, Systems Thinking
Beyond the Individual: Ecodharma and the Relational Mind
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.
Art As Living Action
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.
Emotional Intelligence and the Science of Wellbeing
Daniel Goleman joins Jonathan F.P. Rose for a conversation on emotional intelligence, contemplative practice, leadership, and the inner capacities that support collective wellbeing.
Compassionate Leadership in Finance, Get Inspired, Leadership, Read, Social Change, Systems Thinking
Reimagining Capitalism from the Inside Out
A reflection on The Common Good podcast conversation with Rebecca Henderson and Jamie Bristow about mindful leadership, business education, love, power, and systems change.
Exploring the Intelligence of Somatic Practice
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.
Advancing the Science of Human Flourishing
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.
Fusilli with Peas, Squash Blossoms, Fresh Cheese, and Bronze Fennel
We think of June as the height of spring, but...
Greeting is Meeting: Haiku and the Art of Mindful Animism
Two decades ago, at a colloquium on haiku poetry, I found myself sitting next to a Japanese poet during a lecture by a psychologist on “Haiku and the Practice of Mindfulness.” In chatting with him beforehand, I noticed that he understood English perfectly well but struggled a bit to speak it.
Roots of Renewal: Ecological Civilization in China and the Confluence of Tradition and Modernity
A Garrison Institute Webinar Series on Culture,...
Spicy Spring Vegetable Curry
To please a large crowd with some folks who eat meat and some who don’t, we make vegetarian curry and separately braise meat with similar flavorings to serve on the side.