Western medicine meets the meditative tradition

The Dalai Lama visits Minnesota's Mayo Clinic and shares thoughts on healing.

The Dalai Lama visited Mayo Clinic in Rochester in 2008, 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 blend suggests. 

Attitude and intent determine success, according to the Dalai Lama. We added this quote from the article to our Quote Radiator: “Compassion  is an immune system for the toxins of the mind”.

Another statement, he made with humor and without apology to the many medical professionals in attendance, was:  “In Tibet we have a saying… The physician is a great scholar, but his medicine is not effective because his heart is not that good.”