“Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.” MindBrainKnownPracticeTechnologyMeditationCenturyUniqueInspiredBuddhistHolinessCollaborationPreciseMonkBuddhist Monk Author:Richard Davidson
“Attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool.” HumansEndsUseSpiritPowerfulAttentionPracticeTechnologyFocusMeditationExerciseToolsResponsibleExtraordinaryMost PowerfulEmailHuman SpiritBlackberries Author:Linda Stone
“So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what's going on inside my mind. Thousands of hours of drama, confusion, discussion, huge special effects and futuristic scenarios. Also a lot of chatter, drama and suspense. Is like to go to the movies for free, every day. The CCTV technology used is the SSM-X45. Whose initials stand for: Sit down, Shut up and Meditate (X45 is just to sound more hi-tech)” MindUsedSoundHoursTechnologyMeditationSpecialEffectsHugeDramaConfusionSuspenseDiscussionMovieTapeShut UpInitialsScenariosChatterSpecial EffectsFuturistic Author:Marcelo Goianira
“Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.” ShouldTechnologyMeditationCenturyComputerUniversal21st CenturySpatial Author:Kedar Joshi
“Technology is neutral. You can use [it] to become frenetic and to go out of your mind. But you can also use technology to relax and improve performance. Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.” MindSelfUseTechnologyMeditationAwarenessActivityPerformancesSelf AwarenessAidsRelaxRelaxationDynamism Author:Deepak Chopra
“Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in a single day or two to more horror on our Internet Web pages than our great-grandfathers were exposed to in decades of living. We have not created modern minds for that modern world. Science and technology has just dumped it on us. And I think people yearn for it. I think you see it in what's popular. Why are people wanting to learn about meditation and talking about a purpose-driven life? It's because they know more is needed in the modern world.” PeopleThinkingWorldMindChildrenTechnologyMeditationModernInternetHorrorOur ChildrenScience And TechnologyDumped Author:Steven C. Hayes
“This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.” HumansAgeHuman BeingsTechnologyMeditationStageYogaBlindScience And TechnologyBlind Faith Author:Nirmala Srivastava