Open Buddha

I blogged recently about Rev. Jiun Foster doing a teaching in Second Life at Kannonji. Unknown to me, video of the talk was captured and it has now been put up on Youtube.
You can take a look at it below or on Youtube (in much higher resolution). All of the individuals sitting on cushions [...]

A friend forwarded me an article today from the Journal of Neuroscience that discusses experiments that show that meditation can alter brain function and the ability to train attention. This is something that meditators know subjectively but which has not been validated extensively by the scientific community.
I really enjoy that these kinds of studies [...]