Meditation meets Science at MIT on November 20th at 4PM

On November 20th, Dr. Paul Fleischmann, MD, will speak at MIT about "Vipassana Meditation & The Scientific World-View". This talk is free and open to the public.

Dr. Paul R. Fleischman trained in Psychiatry at Yale University and has been honored by the American Psychiatric Association for his unique contributions to the spiritual and humanistic aspects of Psychiatry. He is the author of "The Healing Spirit: Explorations in Religion and Psychotherapy", "Karma and Chaos: Essays on Vipassana Meditation", "Cultivating Inner Peace", and other books. His articles have appeared in Nature, The Yale Review, and other Journals.

Vipassana Meditation was taught and practiced by the Buddha before Buddhism was invented. It is pragmatic, free of ideology, and guides the practitioner to states of mental balance and peace. It is a serious meditation that requires a ten-day residential retreat to learn. It is remarkable for its mind-body integration, and for its compatibility with the scientific world-view. Vipassana, as taught in the tradition of Acarya S.N. Goenka, is currently practiced by more than one million people around the world. This talk will describe how it is learned and practiced, and what its appeal is for Twenty-first Century practitioners.

Date: 11/20/2010

Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 32-G449 The Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA

Time: 4:00 - 5:30PM

Directions: Directions: http://www.csail.mit.edu/node/95

RSVP via Email to: cdatar@alum.mit.edu

For more information about the event please visit:  http://www.dhara.dhamma.org/boston/

For more information about Vipassana Meditation in Massachusetts, please visit http://www.dhara.dhamma.org

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