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MindScience Academy curates a series of articles with the intention to gloss and approach the ongoing exchange between scientific research and contemplative traditions. Through such endeavor, we shall try to expand the tools at the disposal of the critical reader and researcher, without the pretense of exhausting debate, on the contrary, multiplying and hybridizing its languages. This way, our column resembles the laboratory itself; critical, enzymatic, open to surprise and transformative experience.
MSA ISCR Padova
Consciousness and Inner Reality

Participation in the 2nd Annual ISCR Event in Padova as a First-Person Perspective

MSA samadhi yoga classico Rigopoulos
focus on june 2024

"The Samādhi of Classical Yoga" by Antonio Rigopoulos

In the technical lexicon of classical Yoga, the term samādhi, derived from the Sanskrit verbal root dhā with the prefixes sam- and ā-, literally denotes the "bringing together" of attention, its focus. It can be translated as perfect absorption, as it refers to continuously focusing attention on a specific object.
Bruno Neri ricerca UniPi
Body, Mind and Emotions

What Happens to the Brain When We Meditate: The Study by the University of Pisa Conducted at the Sera Jey Monastic University in India

A study by the University of Pisa published on Frontiers in Psychology in the Consciousness Research section investigates the neural bases of meditation activity, employing an exceptional group of volunteers: the monks of Sera-Jey, the Tibetan Monastic University in Karnataka, India, as part of an active collaboration since 2018.
MSA Robina Courtin Happiness felicita
focus on may 2024

"Unraveling Our Delusions" by Ven. Robina Courtin

We have to be facing our attachment every day, feeling the pain of it, seeing it. And then, the second we start to do that, somehow we become fulfilled, satisfied. That is what is interesting. When we start to give up being a junkie, we start to become happy. We begin to taste our own potential. As long as we continue to follow attachment, which is so deep, we will never be happy.
MSA felicità Conversano Ciacchini
focus on may 2024

"The Practice of Happiness" by Ciro Conversano and Rebecca Ciacchini

Happiness is more likely a state of mind rather than a more intense emotion, culture-dependent, dependent on the relationship with others (whether an individual or something else), and essential to an inner journey of compassion and search, a choice, and also a certain awareness of one's needs.
MSA Etica e gratitudine Thubten Chodron
focus on may 2024

"Ethics and Gratitude as a Path to Happiness" by Ven. Thubten Chodron

Changing our perspective on life to one of kindness really helps us feel gratitude. Gratitude is a wonderful feeling to have because then you see how rich your life is and how much you’ve received. You see how much people have benefited you and how good you have it.
MSA radici felicita Bayda
focus on may 2024

"Beyond Happiness" - recommended reading

Happiness cannot come from setting it as a goal; it arises from the ability to appreciate the journey or, more precisely, the experience that life offers in the present moment. (...) When we are unhappy, instead of trying to become happy, we should take whatever is happening as an opportunity to encounter and overcome obstacles on the path.
Ciò che rende l'induzione affidabile - Ven.Kunsang
focus on april 2024

"What Makes Induction Reliable: The Three Modes of a Valid Syllogism" by Ven. Lobsang Kunsang

It all starts with establishing what is an existing entity and how it is subdivided. For instance, all Buddhist philosophical schools accept that an existing entity is that which is ascertained by a valid knower.
La lingua come strumento cognitivo di Domenica Romagno
focus on april 2024

"The Language as a Cognitive Tool: Categories and Categorizations" by Domenica Romagno

In language, the data of experience are organized. Languages, in fact, are cognitive tools that convey not a given reality, but an interpreted reality; they are systems functional to the cognitive organization of experience. It's like saying that everyone speaks, first and foremost, to themselves.
Epistemology Geshe Jampa Gelek
focus on april 2024

"Criteria for Validity According to the Various Tibetan Buddhist Schools" by Ven. Geshe Jampa Gelek - Advanced Level

Geshe Gelek has addressed four in-depth questions regarding the topic of valid cognition, illustrating in great technical detail the differences existing among the various schools. A contribution certainly appreciated by readers with advanced knowledge in Buddhist studies.
Embodied Mind Ita Eng
focus on april 2024

"The Embodied Mind" - recommended reading

From the thought of Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch, enactive epistemology flourishes, bringing to light first-person knowledge where embodied experience plays a constitutive role. A fundamental text.
MSA Mappare Emozioni
Body, Mind and Emotions

Mapping emotions (5): two perspectives compared

Despite apparent divergences between the models we are going over — one referring to the basic emotions currents, to other being constructivist perspectives —, the common grounds also appear to be quite interesting. Both Barrett and Asma & Gabriel agree upon the existence of core affects, proposing different views on their extension (how many and what they are) and on their role in shaping human behavior.

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