All in the Mind - Dialogue with the Dalai Lama: Part 1

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Dialogue with the Dalai Lama: Part 1

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From the stage of the 2009 Mind and Its Potential conference, His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins All in the Mind's Natasha Mitchell in an extended conversation about the mind, science and much else. And, joining the dialogue over coming weeks is the founder of the field of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, leading Harvard evolutionary biologist Marc Hauser, and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace.

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Guests

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

http://www.dalailama.com/

Professor Marc Hauser
Professor of Psychology, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Biological Anthropology
Co-Director, Mind, Brain and Behavior Program
Director, Cognitive Evolution Lab
Harvard University
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~mnkylab/HauserBio.html

Professor Martin Seligman
Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology
Director, Positive Psychology Centre
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/bio.htm

Dr B. Alan Wallace
President
Santa Barbara Center for Consciousness Studies
http://www.alanwallace.org/

Further Information

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2009 Mind and Its Potential Conference

Moral Minds: The Evolution of Human Morality
Broadcast on All in the Mind, 2006

Meditation and the Mind: Science Meets Buddhism
Conversation with neuroscientist Richard Davidson and Buddhist monk Mattieu Ricard, Broadcast on All in the Mind, 2003

Dr Mindfulness: Science meets the Meditation boom
Broadcast on All in the Mind, 2007

Being your own Therapist, Buddhist style
Broadcast on All in the Mind 2008

The Science of Happiness
Broadcast on All in the Mind, 2008

Meditation, Falling Awake
Interview with founder of the mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) technique, Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Broadcast on The Spirit of Things, ABC Radio National, 2009

Publications

Title: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World
Author: The Dalai Lama
Publisher: Abacus, 1999
ISBN-10: 0349112541

Title: The Universe in a Single Atom The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
Author: The Dalai Lama
Publisher: Little Brown, 2005
ISBN-10: 076792066X

Title: The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2009
ISBN-10: 0307267601

Title: Moral Minds: How Nature Designed our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
Author: Marc D. Hauser
Publisher: Harper Collins, 2006
ISBN-10: 0060780703

Title: The Art and Science of Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness into Psychology and the Helping Professions
Author: Shauna L. Shapiro and Linda E Carlson
Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2009
ISBN-10: 1433804654

Title: Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism and Christianity
Author: B. Alan Wallace
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2009
ISBN-10: 0231147309

Title: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Author: Martin E. P Seligman
Publisher: Random House Australia, 1990
ISBN-10: 0671019112

Title: Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
Author: Martin E.P Seligman
Publisher: Random House Australia, 2002
ISBN-10: 0743222970

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell

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