“Transform your attitude to the suffering person,” said Mattieu Ricard, who has spent more than 10,000 hours in contemplative meditation. “Let your heart become a mass of brilliant white light, and the suffering becomes dissolved in it.”
The Dalai Lama visited Mayo Clinic in Rochester, not as a patient (although he reportedly does entrust his medical care to Mayo), but to help advance the integration of Eastern meditative healing practices with the West’s technologies of medicine.
MinnPost – Western medicine meets the meditative tradition discusses aspects of this integration, and explores some dimensions of the challenges that this new cultural fruity yogurt blend suggests.
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