Sumeru News — Meditation

Investigating + Integrating Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care + Society

• Buddhism around the World • Buddhist Psychology • Conferences • Events • Health • Meditation • Practice!

The Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School will be holding their 10th annual International Scientific Conference, March 28-April 1, 2012, at the Four Points Conference Center in Norwood, Massachusetts. Among the plenary sessions are: Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery: The Story of an Emerging Research Program Linda... Read more »

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“Moving Body, Knowing Mind” review

• Books • Buddhism in Canada • Cults • Meditation • Practice! • Temple Stories • Temples • Toronto

Moving Body, Knowing Mind: Ritualizing and learning at two Buddhist centres in Toronto Patricia Q. Campbell Oxford University Press, 2011 ISBN 9780199793815   $39.95 paperback Hardcover also available From the publisher: Knowing Body, Moving Mind investigates ritualizing and learning in introductory meditation classes at two Buddhist centers in Toronto, Canada. The centers, Friends of the Heart... Read more »

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Vipassana Lecture, Vancouver: 9.29.11

• Buddhist Psychology • Education • Events • Meditation • Practice! • Vancouver • Vipassana

UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program presents a lecture by Dr. Paul R. Fleischman, the Vipassana Teacher responsible for Outreach in the West: “Vipassana Meditation: A Practice and a Path” Date: Thursday, 29 September 2011 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 PM Place: First Nations Longhouse, 1985 West Mall, UBC Point Grey Campus Lectures are free and open... Read more »

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